Jerry Brown beat Meg Whitman, by 52% to 43%. Say good night Meggy!
Here are a few more early results:
- Barbara Boxer won, beating Carly Fiorina
- Gavin Newsom beat Abel Maldonado
- Debra Bowen, John Chiang, and Bill Lockyer all won
- Steve Cooley beat Kamala Harris
- Dave Jones beat Mike Villines
- Torlakson beat Aceves for State Superintendent of Education
Here are the Proposition Results:
- Prop. 19 lost (marijuana)
- Prop. 20 passed (redistricting)
- Prop. 21 lost (state park fee)
- Prop. 22 passed (stops state from taking city money)
- Prop. 23 lost (would have stopped AB 32)
- Prop. 24 lost (would have repealed a business tax allowance)
- Prop. 25 passed (Republicans in Sacramento are now paperweights)
- Prop. 26 passed (But voters can now block some fee increases)
- Prop. 27 lost (would have overturned a previous redistricting measure)
This is good for reach people and bed for poor Mexicans.
You will be dreading it for next 4 years, Pedroza.
No future for poor only state handouts.
Many Mexicans will go back or to other states with better economy.
But, you do not understand what I am talking about so lets time show you.
Just remember that I will be reminding you who cause the problem so do not flip on me in next 4 years.
Interesting that California results are in such direct contrast with most of the rest of the country.
@ Geoff
Yes it is. Who knows when Californians will learn. Looks like nothing will change in this state, except for the continuing mass exodus to other states.
Gov. Moonbeam and Senator Dingbat…ugh!
i agree with above we have dingbats and dingbat voters and calif keeps sinking because we keep voting for clowns like moonbeam and boxer . the only thing that maybe voters will wake up WHEN THE STATE GOSE INTO B. K
We’re doomed.
Good news for Kamala – as we slept, she overtook Steve Cooley! So we have a clean Democratic sweep of all California statewide races. And an AG who will NOT defend Prop 8 as Cooley would have.
Yes, another liberal who will arrogantly defy the will of the actual voters because she knows better than measly little voters.
No, who sincerely believes it to be unconstitutional. As I do, and Jerry Brown did, and all the judges it’s gone to so far have.
You’re not some kind of anti-gay religious zealot, are you Geoff? I thought you were more of a thinker.
First, I support the rule of law and find it interesting that liberals decry the will of the people when it doesn’t follow their arrogant view of what is “right.” Second, I am a lifelong Christian and I would consider myself a thinker – those two things are not at all at odds. I think that your rhetoric is meant to be offensive and seems typical of the non sequitur attack that comes from the left. I am entitled to my beliefs as are you. I am not “anti gay” any more than I am “anti liar” or “anti addict.” I would not choose those lifestyles but have lots of friends that do and those are their choices. Many people would not choose my lifestyle of raising five kids – that’s the beauty of America.
“Rule of law” is not just the will of the majority, it also has to take into account the Constitution. The national and the state constitutions. You realize that, no?
And now I look at my previous comment… I don’t mean to insult good tolerant Christians. It’s just that most people with an anti-gay bias tend to try to justify that somehow by their religion. And being in America, that’s usually Christian.
And wait a second – you just equated “gay” with “liar” and “addict.” Maybe I shouldn’t be so polite to you.
I feel a lot better knowing that Steve Cooley will NOT be our next AG. Although I voted for the Libertarian Party’s nominee Timothy Hannan, Kamala Harris is a bit more tolerable even though she wrote the argument against Prop 19 with Cooley.
As far as Dianne Feinstein’s re-election bid for the Senate in 2012. I will NEVER, EVER support her. I don’t care if she was against Prop 8. She is one of the biggest pro-war, pro-PATRIOT Act, Drug War prohibitionists out there. This is a race where I may consider voting for a Republican (emphasis on the word MAY) unless the Democratic Party can put up a challenger that is a) anti-war (non-interventionst) and b) has a decent civil liberties platform (repealing the PATRIOT ACT, repealing FISA, repealing DADT, etc.). If Glenn Greenwald was a California resident, he’d be a perfect fit since he’s never afraid to take the Obama Administration to task.
Unfortunately, the person in the Democratic Party with any semblance of these principles who defied the traditional and conventional political establishment died in a plane crash in Eveleth, MN in 2002: my late, great friend Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. As long as the local Democratic party contains hacks like Larry Agran, Dan Chameleonewski and the FibOC cartel who unapologetically kowtow to the establishment’s whims and wishes, their party will be stuck with carbon copies of people that they claim to despise. They will also continue to make pathetic apologies for these people who consistently vote against their own principles and beliefs. That is, if people like the aforementioned have any principles and beliefs.
Needless to say, Paul Wellstone was the last Democrat I voted for in a national or state race.
Sad but true but funny GF: Polling places all over Cali reported pro-Prop 19 stoners showing up hoping to cast provisional ballots because they hadn’t bothered to register. sigh…
46% is a pretty good showing for a mid term election where a good percentage of your voters are older and more conservative. Based on my 23 year experience with the marijuana legalization community, we have been slowly gaining acceptance over time with a wide array of demographics. By taking the more cautious, cerebral educational approach with people who are on the fence as opposed to the militant in your face tactics that most are used to seeing with activists of any stripe, I think we will eventually see an end to marijuana prohibition within the next 10 years. The in your face apporach, whether it is being done by PETA or the fringe elements of the Tea Party tends to turn off a lot of people and can have longer lasting damaging effects when it comes to advancing your cause.
What I would like to see is a 2012 ballot initiative to allow people to register to vote and vote on Election Day. I think if we had this option on Election Day, perhaps a lot of these pro 19 people who forgot register to vote because they took too many bong rips would have been allowed to vote and that may have been the difference for victory. They allow for same day registration and voting on Election Day in Minnesota and that state always ranks high on a national level when it comes to voter turrnout. I wouldn’t be opposed to revisitng another legalization initiative in two years, but if you want to increase participation in the electoral process in California then allow for people of California to register to vote and vote on Election Day.