Barbara Lee joins fellow Congress members Katie Porter of Orange County and Adam Schiff of Burbank in the race.
Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — who she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.
"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality," said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book, How We Win the Civil War."And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front."
Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.
Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization,"They said, ‘Barbara, you can not let this one red light stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life."
At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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