CONSTANCE JEWEL MENZIES

Why Thrive LA endorses CONSTANCE

Constance Jewel Menzies is a Republican running for California State Assembly District 57. Her ballot designation is In-Home Care Provider. She has no campaign website, no campaign committee, and no publicly stated policy positions. By every conventional measure, this is a nominal candidacy. We are endorsing her anyway, and the reason is simple: the incumbent, Sade Elhawary, is a DSA-endorsed ideologue whose record in Sacramento represents the worst of what activist politics produces. Elhawary has championed price controls on housing, pushed new taxes on businesses, and embraced a regulatory agenda that punishes the people who build, hire, and invest in Los Angeles. A vote for Menzies is a vote against that agenda. In a district where the registration gap makes a Republican victory effectively impossible, this endorsement is a statement of principle: DSA-endorsed legislators should face opposition on every ballot line, in every race, every cycle. Menzies has not articulated a policy platform, and we do not pretend otherwise. She carries the endorsement of the California Republican Assembly. She is the only alternative to an incumbent whose ideological commitments, from rent control expansion to anti-business taxation, actively harm the district's economic future. In a two-candidate general election, the choice is binary. A vote for Constance Jewel Menzies is a vote against the DSA's grip on District 57.