Musician and record producer Tim Myers announced in April that he would challenge longtime Inland Empire Congressman Ken Calvert next year.

“Ken Calvert has been in Washington for 30 years,” said Myers, declaring, boldly, that the “status quo isn’t working.”

Myers, whose claim to some degree of fame is apparently that he co-founded a band in 2002 and then left that band in 2007, has since changed his mind about challenging the status quo in Washington.

Now he’s running for California lieutenant governor, because if there’s any office where someone can truly be an agent of change, it is obviously lieutenant governor of California.

“One of the main reasons I’m running is I want to be a loud voice that’s standing up to the political establishment and standing up to (Donald) Trump and the Republicans,” Myers said to Kaitlyn Schallhorn of the Southern California News Group.

We, like you, have no idea what that actually means, especially in the context of, again, the office of California lieutenant governor.

Myers expressed something of an explanation as to why he was pivoting away from challenging Calvert to running for an office which has a reputation for being something of a political black hole.

“But when I looked around, I didn’t see our state politicians standing with us, and I realized: I can’t stay silent. I can’t stay on the sidelines. That’s why I’m shifting my campaign from Congress to California lieutenant governor — to represent all 40 million voices across this state and to fight for a government that actually works for us,” he said.

Tim Myers, in other words, really is just looking for somewhere to stand. Apparently, he views the office of California lieutenant governor and the ability to rotate “with the state controller as chair of the three-member State Lands Commission” and serve as a nonvoting member of the California Coastal Commission as the best place to stand.

With Myers out of his way, it is certain that Team Calvert is breathing much easier given the challenge Myers posed.

Well, there are still another half-dozen Democrats currently announced as running against him, the highest profile being a board member of the Nuview Union School District. So there’s that.