Key Highlights
- Longtime political foe of President Donald Trump Democratic California Rep.
- Eric Swalwell is facing a legal campaign challenge after a conservative activist filed a petition claiming the lawmaker is allegedly prohibited from running for California governor because he doesn't actually live in the Golden State.
- "Public records searches reveal no current ownership or leasehold interest held by Eric Swalwell in California, nor any history of any ownership of leasehold interest based on available public records," a petition filed Jan.
- 8 by filmmaker and activist Joel Gilbert states, the New York Post reported."Swalwell’s congressional financial disclosers from 2011 to 2024 list no California real estate ownership," the petition added.
- The left-wing lawmaker's gubernatorial campaign, however, has hit back at the petition as a "nonsense claim" that the team looks forward to "beating" in court.
