Retired State Senator Dick Mountjoy is thinking of running for the United States Senate.

 

Dick Mountjoy is a retired State Senator that represented the Eastern San Gabriel Valley during his career in the legislature. Before that he was a councilman in Monrovia.

 

In 1994 he was re-elected to the State Assembly and elected to the State Senate in special election at the same time. That was the year the Republicans won 41 seats in the Assembly. He couldn’t resign without giving the Democrats the edge. After the Horcher betrayal, Willie Brown threw him out of the Assembly and into the Senate.

 

In 1998 he ran statewide for Lt. Governor losing the GOP primary. After he was term-limited out of the State Senate, he headed the California Republican Assembly preceding yours truly.

 

It’s obvious there is no interest in many Republicans in taking on Dianne Feinstein. A Mountjoy candidacy would allow him to travel the state working with Republican grassroots organizations. Something he likes and does well.

 

His campaign would focus on illegal immigration—He wrote Prop. 187. This would help keep Republicans on board in light of the Gilchrest for Governor rumors.

 

And let’s be honest. Could he do worse than Bill Jones?