Prop 99 Won over Prop 98. Rent control was the biggest factor which was an add on to the proposition which had nothing to do with the original issue…Eminent Domain. Limits on Government Acquisition. Proving once again a gimme item wins elections.
2nd Assembly District:
Jim Nielson won easily with 45.1 %. He is now unstoppable by the democract challlenger Paul R. Singh who gather just 20,100 votes or about half of the votes now available to Nielson in the general election.
Assembly District 3:
Democratic 100.% ( 370 of 370 ) precincts reporting as of Jun. 4, 2008, at 7:01 a.m.
Districtwide Results Candidate Votes Percent – Michael “Mickey” Harrington 22,628 100.0 %
Sue Horne 17,123 45.7 % Dan Logue 20,290 54.3 % Logue has won the Assembly, the general election is only a formality, democrat challengers have zero chance due to voter base that gives republicans a lock on the outcome.
4th Congressional District:
Charlie Brown-D 42,357 88.0 % will go up against Tom McClintock-R, McClintock picked up 42,544 or 53.7 % and he will next gain most of Doug Ose’s 30,670 votes. Looks like Democrat Brown will get creamed. Republicans have the lock on this district. Even if Brown got all the remaining dem votes, 5,809, it won’t come close to the rep votes avialable. He’s gone…McClintock is the winner.
2nd Congressional District:
Lets just call it as it is, Wally Herger wins another 2 years! You might as well forget the general election because the sum of the votes the 3 democrats got in the primary can’t even come close to matching the votes Wally got. Mr. Herger has been in there since 1986. Assemblyman Rick Keene hopes to some day occupy Wally’s seat IF he can continue his career in politics by winning the next State Senate seat being vacated by his ally Sam Aanested. This seat will be contested by outgoing Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa.
Overall in the Blue State the democracts are heavily favored to pick up more seats in the legislature than the beseiged republicans. That change could give the democrats an unprecidented 2/3rds majority needed to override a governor’s veto. If that happens and there is certainly a good chance it will, the democrats will then have a free hand to vote in whatever legislation their lefty hearts desire, be it a costly single payer health insurance program, tax hikes, removing the death penalty, ending 3 strikes, ending prop 13, growing the size government, increasing spending in welfare and schools absent accountability…it’s all there for the doing. They simply can’t be stopped with a 2/3rds majority. Republicans might as well stay home and focus on lawn weeding or cleaning out their garage, this will be far more productive than anything they could do in the legislature.
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The death of democracy is not far off when the masses discover they can vote themselves every imaginable benefit and they do. This is called populism and it’s fatal 100% of the time and it’s why democracies rarely last more than 200 years. We are on borrowed time.
The best paid jobs in California are now in state goverment says poll. Historically the best paid jobs were in the privage sector. California ushers in a new age of socialism and wealth shifting as job providers flee to other states.
