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Rising Stars Report: Campbell to Rappers to Honored Execs

Election season also is ambition season. Congressman John Campbell is showing confidence about his own bid for re-election along with ambition about his standing in the Republican Caucus of the House of Representatives. What else to figure from a recent report in Capitol Hill tracker Roll Call, which put Campbell among a field that’s lining up as prospects to replace colleague and GOP Veep nominee Paul Ryan as chair of the House Budget Committee should he move along with a win by Mitt Romney. Campbell has plenty of competition, including current Budget Committee Vice Chair Scott Garrett of New Jersey, among others. But Campbell’s hat is about as close to being in the ring as it’s likely to get until the election is settled. “Yes, that’s something I’d be interested in,” Campbell told Roll Call about the Budget Committee chair’s job. “The big if, of course, is that Romney and Ryan have to be elected. But it’s something I’m taking a look at, something I have interest in.” Campbell is facing Dem challenger and Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang to retain his 48th District seat …

A trio of teen rappers from Huntington Beach also look like rising stars thanks to a show-stopping performance last week on the X-Factor talent-search show. Brothers Keaton Stromberg and Wesley Stromberg—who along with pal Drew Chadwick go by Emblem3—took the risky route and defied the odds by doing an original number called Sunset Boulevard for the judges. They brought the house down, got plaudits from the notoriously tough recording exec Simon Cowell and won a spot in the next round of the competition, which carries a $5 million recording contract as a prize …

Here’s a local who’s gained some renown on stage and TV and should be on the rise on the silver screen. He’s Graham Phillips, a 19-year-old native of Laguna Beach who stars with David Duchovny in Goats, a movie that’s worth a watch despite its limited release and relative lack of notice by critics. Phillips has leading-man looks and the acting skills to carry a picture …

Some stars keep rising: The Stanford Real Estate Hall of Fame will induct Henry Segerstrom and give a memorial tribute to Donald Kennedy at a Sept. 28 banquet at the Westin South Coast Plaza. Segerstrom, who holds an undergraduate degree and an MBA from Stanford, will be hailed by alum group Stanford Professionals in Real Estate for his career as a developer and philanthropist, which came together in the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, which SPIRE calls a “world-class environmental sculpture.” Kennedy is a Stanford graduate who played on a national championship golf team there before his distinguished career with what is now First American Financial Corp. …

A couple more rising stars are on the horizon in OC’s legal community, but you’ll have to wait until the Business Journal names them as part of our annual General Counsel Awards. There will be five honorees altogether, including two Rising Stars. The ballroom event is set for 6 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. Preferred seats are sold out; tickets will be available at the door for $150.

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