HOW JOHN CHIANG WILL WIN THE CA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION. (Part I)

CA is the home of some 10-million illegal immigrants.

And especially then-Mayor Gavin Newsom could have pressured his auntie, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or his godmother, Sen. Diane Feinstein, to help President Obama in doing a historic immigration reform.

The truth was that some Democratic leaders like Speaker Pelosi, Senator Feinstein, Mayor Newsom, Mayor Villaraigosa and other national and local leaders of the Democratic Party paid LIP SERVICE to immigration reform. Yes, they spoke mere politically-correct sound bites that supposedly would pave the way to help illegal immigrants and outstaying aliens and/or the DACA recipients, many of whom have approved petitions by their American-citizen kin to become legal immigrants.

Yes, Antonio Villaraigosa is also a son of immigrants. But when he was in power as the Mayor of Los Angeles, he appeared to have turned his back against the illegal-immigrant community.

Like Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa loved the limelight and the corridor of power as the "Teflon Dons" of CA politics. To them, "to hell with the illegal immigrants that cannot vote after all."

Yes, these leaders like Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa sounded good in TV or radio interviews and in press releases. But the truth is that they did nothing to pressure the national leadership in the U.S. Congress and the White House to undertake immigration reform.

Californians know that John Chiang is a second-generation American of Taiwanese descent. When the Democrats could have done immigration reform, John Chiang was the CA State Controller from 2007 to 2015. He did not have the clout then to pressure the U.S. Congress and the White House to go for immigration reform. But Mr. Chiang did his best in sending letters to the nation's policy-&-decision makers about immigration reform.