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June 06, 2012

Republican Goodness in California(!)
— CAC

I live in Rancho Cucamonga. Our congressman, for years, was David Dreier, who decided to retire after redistricting. The "nonpartisan" team assembled for redistricting in my state decided that Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, and San Bernardino have a whole lot in common, so the overall district moved several points leftwards. So much so that prognosticators changed the status of my district to "lean Democrat".

But a funny thing happened yesterday. See, Democrats attempting to consolidate power with ball-less moderate Republicans pushed a "top two" open primary to the voters two years ago. All candidates from all political parties compete in the same primary for all state and local races. The incumbent Republican, Gary Miller (moved from another district thanks to the clowns who shook up the map), won 26.7% of the vote with all precincts in. The Democrat expected to finish as the contender for November, Pete Aguilar, won 22.82%.

But Bob Dutton, who I voted for, finished with 24.86% of the total vote, bumping Aguilar out of the top two, and giving us a choice between a Republican and a Republican for November. This was supposed to be a prime pickup for the Democrats this year, and it blew up (so far) gloriously in their faces.

I had to screencap, for my personal enjoyment, the fail here. CA31 was supposed to become Democrat-leaning, and the jungle primary sent that idea off to Failtown:

Pension reform measures in both San Diego and San Jose passed, focusing on cutting pensions for you-know-who. Walker was only the beginning, it seems. Taxpayers like keeping more of their money instead of flushing it away on the overpaid and the bloated. Who knew?

Speaking of pension-busters and spending slashers, Carl DeMaio won the jungle primary in San Diego, and will face off against Democrat Bob Filner in November. While his lead was only by about 2% over Filner in the primary, almost 70% of the overall vote was divided amongst three Republicans, so barring a scandal DeMaio looks favored to become the next mayor.

Since the Senate race here is a dud and we aren't going to beat Obama in my state, I'll take great news where I can get it.

Posted by: CAC at 07:54 AM | Comments (105)
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1 The only good thing in Rancho CooCoo is bass pro shop

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 07:55 AM (fCSfn)

2 CAC, great job last night!

Posted by: Jim Scrummy at June 06, 2012 07:59 AM (sbV1u)

3 Yeah I voted yesterday, and cast a vote for Newt and every Gang prosecutor on the Ballot...Surprises me I live in the Alamo for Right Wing Tea Party Independents and Yeah all those talks with the Demoncrates are turning the lights on in the brain...

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 07:59 AM (fCSfn)

4 Wow, that is about the dumbest primary system I've ever heard of.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 06, 2012 08:01 AM (USExO)

5 Isn't Sanford and Son's junk yard near there?

Posted by: Cicerokid at June 06, 2012 08:01 AM (2sssF)

6 Come on, we all know "Cucamonga" was someplace made up by Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 06, 2012 08:01 AM (nrW1y)

7 >> giving us a choice between a Republican and a Republican for November.

That's pretty sweet...but how many districts get to choose between a Dum and Dummer in November?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 06, 2012 08:02 AM (ZKzrr)

8 CAC, the Wisconsin coverage was great last night. Spear an extra hobo on the house.

By the way, California is still boned.

Posted by: Cicero at June 06, 2012 08:02 AM (qhHI4)

9 That jungle primary justice is delicious, and not fattening which will offset a some but not all of last night's cutaneous pudding absorbtion.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 06, 2012 08:02 AM (mEdz6)

10 Is California still one of our states? Huh. I should visit.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 06, 2012 08:03 AM (dKWiU)

11 When the city of San Diego can't fill a fucking pothole people tend to get a little pissy.

Good on us in San Diego.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:04 AM (iYbLN)

12 Okay, pardon my ignorance but what's a jungle primary?

Posted by: joncelli, for more than 4 hours at June 06, 2012 08:04 AM (RD7QR)

13 @8 We get a little light up our heiny's and you get to make it a breach birth.

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 08:04 AM (fCSfn)

14 The only good thing in Rancho CooCoo is bass pro shop

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 11:55 AM (fCSfn)

I concur !

Posted by: The Jackhole at June 06, 2012 08:05 AM (nTgAI)

15 "Rancho de Cucamonga".

I am old enough to remember when it was just plain on Cucamonga. Btw, there was an Abbott and Costello film featuring it when it was all fruit trees.

Posted by: Jimbo at June 06, 2012 08:05 AM (O3R/2)

16 Pension reform measures in both San Diego and San Jose passed, focusing on cutting pensions for you-know-who. Walker was only the beginning, it seems. Taxpayers like keeping more of their money instead of flushing it away on the overpaid and the bloated. Who knew?

Nice win, but it may not last. The unions stated yesterday that they were going to go to court to have those propositions overturned.

But hey, actual voting? "Democracy Died"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (Y+DPZ)

17 Can someone point me to a concise explanation of what the difference is between lean democrat and a moderate Republican is? Also what criteria is used to determine whether a person is a RINO, along with the aforementioned political assignation.

I am honestly curious about this.

Posted by: Feynmangroupie at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (oI744)

18 6 Come on, we all know "Cucamonga" was someplace made up by Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 06, 2012 12:01 PM (nrW1y)

WRONG. Cucamonga was immortalized by Jan and Dean!

http://tinyurl.com/63rddd6

Posted by: jwb7605 at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (Qxe/p)

19 Holy crap... there is really a place called Rancho Cucamonga.

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (DGIjM)

'IF' the Repbulican party in California had a clue, I think this State could be in play.

Folks are angry... and what you do is a Campaign based on treating folks as individuals, not group.

Then, you ask the simple question... when was the last time YOU were at the Beach, and would you really care if somewhere, miles away, someone was drilling for oil using directional drilling?

You ask, has the California Air Quality Board, done a dam thing to clean up air quality, besides make things more expensive?

You ask... remember when California was the place everyone wanted to move to? and remember when that changed??? and WHO was in political power WHEN that changed?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (lZBBB)

21 @ 5 That's up the 15 in Victorville

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 08:06 AM (fCSfn)

22 Unions taking in the nutsack everywhere....

Judge Halts Union Release Time

Phoenix Â— Maricopa County Superior Court Katherine Cooper ruled in favor of the Goldwater Institute Tuesday to enjoin provisions of a contract between the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association allowing officers to perform union work on police time.

The contract grants approximately $1 million in release time dedicated to union business, including to six police officers who perform exclusively union work and collect automatic overtime. The current contract expires on June 30. A new contract continuing release time was approved last month by a 4-4-1 vote by the Phoenix City Council, with the abstaining vote counting as a yes. The injunction applies only to the current contract, so additional legal efforts will be necessary to extend the ruling to the new contract that takes effect July 1.

According to the ruling, release time constitutes a subsidy because the contract "does not obligate PLEA to perform any specific service or give anything in return for the receipt of $1 million for release time."

http://tinyurl.com/89enqyt

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2012 08:07 AM (X6akg)

23 It's not quite morning in America, but perhaps dawn is starting to break?

Posted by: LASue at June 06, 2012 08:07 AM (wAhNv)

24 Didn't Route 66 go right through it?

Posted by: Jimbo at June 06, 2012 08:08 AM (O3R/2)

25 San Diego mayoral and council races have always been jungle primary; they're nonpartisan offices, doncha' know?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at June 06, 2012 08:09 AM (kqqGm)

26 [i[ with the abstaining vote counting as a yes. [/i] I missed that page in the rule of order?

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2012 08:09 AM (WkuV6)

27 @15 that was before the Dems started free housing for the undocumented er qualified..

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 08:10 AM (fCSfn)

28 And here I thought Cucamonga was a made-up name, like Narnia, or Albuquerque.

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 06, 2012 08:10 AM (+EoBq)

29 Nonpartisan. In San Diego, that means the Republican always wins the Mayor's office.

Posted by: Jimbo at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (O3R/2)

30 OT: Good to see he's keeping his sense of humor....

Robert Stacy McCain ‏@rsmccain

My current undisclosed location serves delicious french fries.

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (X6akg)

31 oops

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (WkuV6)

and we aren't going to beat Obama in my state

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Way too early, SCoaMF might get beat in Cali. I'll just assume he gets beat in every state, and be slightly surprised if he doesn't.

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In other news, the feigned outrage of the day according to real life conversation with my lib friend is that FB is *thinking* about opening up signups to kids under 13. It was put to me like this "Can you fucking believe FB is.... yada yada yada". And I of course just listen and critique her quietly thinking skills but don't counterpoint the argument, because she's stupid and gets irate if someone dares to question her bombastic opinions. But the back story is, her kid IS under 13 and does have a FB account "illegally". So my question is, what the hell are these people pissed off about exactly?

Posted by: Jimmah at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (cWkOB)

33 Great stuff last night, CAC and the #AOSHQDD team. Thank you. Hope to see it again in November, with the same good results.

Posted by: Retread at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (joSBv)

34 They still calling it to close to call, but from what I am hearing Prop. 29 was also defeated. People are sick and tired of paying taxes to prop up fucking beaurocrats

Posted by: Ma Bell at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (uVuwp)

35 1 The only good thing in Rancho CooCoo is bass pro shop

Posted by: Clemenza at June 06, 2012 11:55 AM (fCSfn)

yeah. it is pretty cool too.

Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at June 06, 2012 08:11 AM (r7Ddb)

A nice bit of Awesomeness, for lunch (out here).

On a side note, I honestly would have assumed that "Rancho Cucamonga" was some sort of made-up name, except that someone else had told me they lived there (this was about a year ago), and I looked it up. "My bad", I guess.

Then again, when people told me the name of the place in Japan that had the tsunami, I thought they were making that up too (as a combo of an expletive and the "-ima" from Hiroshima).

And - honest to God - there was the time when I was seeing pictures of some odd-looking person splashed all over the media, and I thought "Geez - what useless story about some transexual transvetite whatever is in vogue today". It turned out to be our latest Supreme Court justice. OK, I', wandering WAY off course here...

Posted by: Optimizer at June 06, 2012 08:12 AM (As94z)

37 Results for Props 28 and 29

28 Limits on Legislators' Terms in Office Yes 2,319,918 61.4% No 1,456,749 38.6%
29 Tax on Cigarettes for Cancer Research Yes 1,894,871 49.2% No 1,958,047 50.8%

Even Sacramento County voted heavily in favor of 28

29 was heavily favored in the fever swamps of the Bay Area counties, but lost in LA County by 49.3 to 50.7

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2012 08:12 AM (Y+DPZ)

38 On the upside, 29 went up in smoke (pun intended) but the clowns passed 28.

Posted by: Tattoo at June 06, 2012 08:13 AM (8/+nB)

39 I heard a report on the radio the other day (can't remember what I was listening to, probably Rush?) that said that Romney is polling better than Obama in CA? Anyone else hearing that?

Posted by: Beckster at June 06, 2012 08:13 AM (VjJAc)

40 F*ing sock.
I don't think 28 adding more time in office helps at all, really.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at June 06, 2012 08:14 AM (8/+nB)

41 My step daughter just turned 13 and she has been on FB for at least 2 years. Its going to suck for her when she is 29 and FB says she is 31.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 06, 2012 08:14 AM (C2//T)

42 Then again, when people told me the name of the placein Japan that had the tsunami, I thought they were making that up too (as a combo of an expletive and the "-ima" from Hiroshima).Posted by: Optimizer at June 06, 2012 12:12 PM

In a related vein....somewhere in Vietnam there must be a village named "Phouc Mei"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 06, 2012 08:14 AM (sbV1u)

43 Rush doing victory dances right now, goofing on Blitzer.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 06, 2012 08:15 AM (0q2P7)

44 Rush is playing Wolf Blitzer @ 9:00pm last night (all excited!) and comparing it to Wolf Blitzer @ 10:00 pm last night. (all dejected!)

Hysterical!

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2012 08:15 AM (X6akg)

45 Calif. is the home of the RINO. They love them some Romney.

Posted by: Jimbo at June 06, 2012 08:15 AM (O3R/2)

46 Roseanne's juggernaut is stopped

CA Green Party presidential primary results

Roseanne Barr (Grn)    5,396
40.0%
    Kent Mesplay (Grn)    1,534
11.4%
    Jill Stein (Grn)    6,563
48.6%

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2012 08:16 AM (Y+DPZ)

47 Train leaving, track 5:
http://youtu.be/ygVFbz6AsnE

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at June 06, 2012 08:16 AM (8/+nB)

48 Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 06, 2012 08:16 AM (0vc7K)

@15 "...Btw, there was an Abbott and Costello film featuring it when it was all fruit trees."

Maybe THAT'S why it sounded like a fictional place to me. But hey - it's really fun to say, especially in this context.

Posted by: Optimizer at June 06, 2012 08:16 AM (As94z)

50 nood

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 06, 2012 08:16 AM (0q2P7)

51 Albuquerque
ROTFLMAO. Yeah "Albuquerque". What a maroon! What a nincowpoop!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 06, 2012 08:17 AM (nrW1y)

52 When I first saw Cucamonga, I figured the name was Spanish for "There's no grass on the lawns here"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2012 08:18 AM (Y+DPZ)

53 Romney lives in CA, thats enough for a few percent out there. He should play that up, in concert with SCoaMF's sliding support. I wouldn't be surprised at all if in a few months he polls higher out there.

Posted by: Jimmah at June 06, 2012 08:18 AM (cWkOB)

Posted by: kbdabear at June 06, 2012 12:16 PM (Y+DPZ)

Based on her complete lack of familiarity with the Republican primary, I wonder if she realized she was competeing with others for the Green nomination.

Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at June 06, 2012 08:18 AM (CQ1cz)

55 Rush is playing Wolf Blitzer @ 9:00pm last night (all excited!) and comparing it to Wolf Blitzer @ 10:00 pm last night. (all dejected!)

That sounds hilarious. Our news dicks sounded the same way a year or so ago when our federal Conservatives won a majority.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 06, 2012 08:19 AM (nrW1y)

56 You forgot Prop 29 going down too.

Posted by: Rocks at June 06, 2012 08:20 AM (Q1lie)

57 Roseanne Barr (Grn) 5,396

I want to find the above mention 5,396 people who voted for Roseanne Barr and abort them.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:21 AM (iYbLN)

58 Nineteen and fifty nine we took a little hike,
With[D7] our scout master up to[G] lake Aneekanike,
We took a little pizza and we took some sour krauts,
And[D7] we marched along together till we [G]heard the girl scouts

Posted by: Homer and Jethro at June 06, 2012 08:22 AM (ZKzrr)

59 good job cac---keep doing election stuff, DON'T TAKE OFF!

Posted by: MJH at June 06, 2012 08:22 AM (z/C+D)

mpfs

i just spit my apple at my screen thank you

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at June 06, 2012 08:22 AM (4/NTV)

61 Cucamonga... Pacoima ... Irwindale ... Glendale .. Playa Del Rey .... Hawthorne ... Grenada Hills ...

Posted by: zombie Frank Zappa at June 06, 2012 08:23 AM (Y+DPZ)

62 Those are some of the stupidest primary rules I have ever heard of. In addition I wonder why nobody has challenged them. Primaries are supposed to be the product of a local party, not the damned government.

Here a candidate must get more than 50% of the vote to win a primary outright. If nobody gets 50% then they have a runoff between the top two, but that is by party. That is the best way.

I am glad I left CA in 1977.

Posted by: Vic at June 06, 2012 08:26 AM (YdQQY)

63 48 Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga.

Cucamonga has a high-A minor league baseball team, the Quakes, and in the foyer of their stadium (the "Epicenter") stands a statue of Jack Benny.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at June 06, 2012 08:27 AM (IlZPo)

64 My district wasn't so lucky, a democrat moved in a year ago and got second last night beating out a local moderate, only getting second to the republican. She only got 26% to the republicans 44% but that still makes me pretty nervous because she ran a horrible campaign. She pretty much threw the moderate local under the bus, accusing her of being a bush republican. I'd received hate filled flyers for the past months on her. Democrats were writing in local papers and they seemed pretty disgusted with the tactic.
The cigarette tax failed, only the northern coastal counties voted in favor, from Santa Barbara up to the bay area it passed. Every where else it failed, even in L.A. county. Oh btw, the California health board doctor who was doing No on Prop 29 commercials was removed by Gov Brown a week ago.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 06, 2012 08:28 AM (tKFT6)

65 Who do we ask to get a "Hitler Just Found Out Scott Walker Won Recall" video?

Posted by: Jypsea Rose~AoSHQ Graveyard Shift at June 06, 2012 08:29 AM (iKSAz)

66 Did San Diego also pass the referendum prohibiting project labor agreements?

Posted by: rockmom at June 06, 2012 08:29 AM (qE3AR)

67 Those Hitler videos never get old.

Posted by: Jypsea Rose~AoSHQ Graveyard Shift at June 06, 2012 08:29 AM (iKSAz)

68 60

phoenixgirl,

Always happy to help!

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:32 AM (iYbLN)

69 Did San Diego also pass the referendum prohibiting project labor agreements? Posted by: rockmom

Yes we did by a BIG margin.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:33 AM (iYbLN)

65 -

Hitler video generator

http://scoamf.us/ve

Posted by: Jimmah at June 06, 2012 08:35 AM (cWkOB)

71 Albuquerque
ROTFLMAO. Yeah "Albuquerque". What a maroon! What a nincowpoop!
Posted by: andycanuck

I took a wrong turn there once.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:35 AM (iYbLN)

72 Did San Diego also pass the referendum prohibiting project labor agreements?

By "a wide margin", according to the U-T. I'm busy hunting up Prop. B news.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 06, 2012 08:35 AM (bjRNS)

73 Full stats, San Diego:

Prop. A (no project labor agreements) wins with 58%.
Prop. B (public unions move to 401(k)s) wins with 66%.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 06, 2012 08:37 AM (bjRNS)

74 Prop A & B passed by HUGE margins in San Diego.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:37 AM (iYbLN)

75 Jerry Brown's tax propositions for the November ballot in California are DOA.

Posted by: mpfs at June 06, 2012 08:38 AM (iYbLN)

76 Such an INTERESTING monster should have an INTERESTING hairdo. Bobbypins please.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 06, 2012 08:40 AM (0vc7K)

77 Jerry Brown's tax propositions for the November ballot in California are DOA.

Yeah. I couldn't see where the pollsters were finding the 59% of voters who were going to vote for them.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 06, 2012 08:41 AM (bjRNS)

78 The union goons went under last night and cannot be allowed to catch a breath of fresh air. The pressure must be unrelenting.

Make them fight so hard that they have no more fight, or resources, left to fight. Fight them in Michigan, fight them in California, fight them in their own back yards.

Demoralize and bankrupt the bastards.

I despise the longshoremen unions in California who have repeatedly held hostage the prosperity of the entire nation.

If Reagan could out-spend the Soviet Union into history, we can damn sure do the same to the unions.

Charge!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 06, 2012 08:41 AM (piMMO)

79 Such an INTERESTING monster should have an INTERESTING hairdo. Bobbypins please.

*****

Was I supposed to think of Lola Bunny when I read that?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 06, 2012 08:43 AM (piMMO)

80 Jerry Brown's tax propositions for the November ballot in California are DOA.

Yeah. I couldn't see where the pollsters were finding the 59% of voters who were going to vote for them.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at June 06, 2012 12:41 PM (bjRNS)

Hell, the LA Times found 60 percent for Cruz Bustamante.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 06, 2012 08:43 AM (z1N6a)

81 Pension reform measures in both San Diego and San Jose passed, focusing on cutting pensions for you-know-who. From DrewM's "Victory Lap" thread: Think about that for a second, liberals think they have an inherent right to have the state subsidize and compel financing for their political operations. From ThQuietMan's post in your "Lessons" thread, quoting Yahoo's Walter Shapiro: Act 10 was an act of preventive war, a surprise invasion into a political area that many voters had assumed was off limits. The wake up call is that until Walker/Christie/Kasich, the mainstream right kind of quietly accepted the premise that the left was entitled to compelled political support via the unions and that the terms of public pensions are etched in stone. DOOM is not so doom-y. It is only so if we make the same static scoring mistake the CBO does in their estimates. The right's assumptions are being proven wrong. Why would the disgustingly corrupt relationship between collectivist statism and unions--particularly the public sector ones--be off limits? I dunno, but it was until it wasn't. On the flipside, the same goes for the federal govt's running an annual deficit over $1T. Anyone with a lick of sense would have said in 2008 that we couldn't do that. Now, in the wake of Porkulus, we've undergone a complete reversal in that a sub-$1T annual deficit seems like a pipe dream. This should put the conventional wisdom about stamping out voter fraud, public prosecutions for federal govt corruption, wrestling the leviathan back to its constitutional limits, and even the "third-rail" of entitlement programs into question. DOOMism presupposes that commonsense remedies are off the table because there is no political will to get there from here. This failure to recall should force us to ask ourselves whether what we *know* is so. And then, we need to ask ourselves whether the people constantly bemoaning a lack of political will while claiming to be on our side really are on our side. The alternative is the horror of what can't continue won't.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 06, 2012 08:43 AM (p7SSh)

82 Redondo Beach voter, here.

Posted by: ACE Union Member at June 06, 2012 08:45 AM (HOOye)

83 Hey are there any exit poll demographics on Prop 29 vote in CA? I'm thinking minus the upper class white vote the Prop loses by way more than it did.

Posted by: Rocks at June 06, 2012 08:50 AM (Q1lie)

84 I live in Torrance. I voted for the proposition to create the re-districting committee. The bill-of-goods we were sold was that it was supposed to (eventually) "un-gerrymander" the districts. I should have realized that "non-partisan committee" in this State means commie, fuck-stick, asshole club.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 06, 2012 08:53 AM (8Kv96)

85 That is excellent news and a stunningly blatant example of the partisan hacked-ness of Larry Sabato.

Posted by: motionview at June 06, 2012 08:54 AM (i+DU3)

34 They still calling it to close to call, but from what I am hearing Prop. 29 was also defeated.

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I almost voted for a local proposition that would raise sales tax just because it specifically says "all money to stay locally; no money for Sacramento" and I figured the court fight would be fun. But then I realized that I would be paying the lawyers on both sides...

Posted by: Anachronda at June 06, 2012 08:55 AM (FzhYM)

87 The following counties voted yes on Prop 29: Imperial, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Mono, Alpine, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Yolo, Mendocino, Humboldt. All other counties voted no.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 06, 2012 08:58 AM (tKFT6)

88 And Carl De Maio in SD is openly gay and a strong fiscal conservative, pushing the pension reform initiative that passed!

BWAHAHAHA!

We're taking over Teh Ghey too!

Posted by: PJ at June 06, 2012 09:16 AM (DQHjw)

89 Chuck Reid appears to be the only intelligent Democrat left in California, he led the pension reform effort in San Jose. I keep expecting him to get kicked out of the party.
Prop 29 was a joke, sure smoking is bad..but let people make the choice, larding another tax will not discourage smokers all that much.
Pension reform is an unstoppable train. (unlike CA's boondoggle train).

Posted by: standfast24 at June 06, 2012 09:17 AM (s4wkw)

90 I can't believe that CAC is a Cucamonga person! Alta Loma native here, glad to see the area still has a moron protecting us from the insanity leaking from 60 miles to the west.

Posted by: bskb at June 06, 2012 09:21 AM (HEatA)

91 She looks interesting (against Feinstein): http://www.emken2012.com/

Posted by: PJ at June 06, 2012 09:22 AM (DQHjw)

92 6 Come on, we all know "Cucamonga" was someplace made up by Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 06, 2012 12:01 PM (nrW1y)

WRONG. Cucamonga was immortalized by Jan and Dean!

http://tinyurl.com/63rddd6

Posted by: jwb7605 at June 06, 2012 12:06 PM (Qxe/p)

I thought Cucamonga was famous from Jack Benny. Mel Blanc would do the train stops announcement and they all concluded with, and Cuc....a...munga

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2012 09:23 AM (1Jaio)

93 I thought the Tax thing would've needed 67% to pass regardless? Also, Dumanis was another candidate who is gay. Fletcher was a GOP who turned independent

Posted by: mig0 at June 06, 2012 09:24 AM (WQ0ni)

94 Also, Schwarzenegger's tax hike butt-buddy Anthony Adams got crushed in the Barstow CD-8 election!

Posted by: W.C. Varones at June 06, 2012 09:30 AM (FL7kh)

95
The Senate race here is a dud....

The California Republican Party is offering up the Elizabeth Emken, an autism activist, as our sacrifice to The Democratic Old Ones. This is the second time the Danville Republican has run for office in California. She came in last place in a four-way congressional primary in 2010.

We're basally running Jenny Mccarthy, without the implants.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 06, 2012 09:35 AM (kdS6q)

96 Uh, no .. Watts is nowhere near Ranch Cucamonga

Posted by: datsnotamore at June 06, 2012 09:36 AM (ihyI1)

97 @92 We have a statue of Jack Benny in our minor league stadium because of that. Back when it was still just Cucamonga. It became Rancho Cucamonga when Alta Loma, Etiwanda and Cucamonga merged into a Voltron like super suburb. I preferred to keep the ridiculous naming pattern up by calling it Altaeticucawandamongaloma.

Posted by: bskb at June 06, 2012 09:37 AM (HEatA)

98
Seven California congressional, 13 Assembly and one state Senate race are sure to feature candidates from the same party. In a handful of other races, vote counts were too tight this morning to declare which two candidates will advance to the November ballot.

Most of the same-party head-butting this fall will involve Democrats. Only four races, all of them Assembly contests, are sure to feature a Republican squaring off against another member of the GOP.

California Politics: Inbred as puppy mill dalmatians.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 06, 2012 09:43 AM (kdS6q)

99 Alta Loma Isn't that where that child mass murderer who was depicted in the "Changeling" lived? (Great movie, by the way).

Posted by: LASue at June 06, 2012 09:48 AM (wAhNv)

100 The only Republican state legislator here that I thought was worth a shit was Tom McClintock. There may be a few others but they're likely toiling away in obscurity.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at June 06, 2012 09:53 AM (4s7w4)

101 CA prop 28 was a smokescreen - it's really another one of these 'reform' efforts that's intended to let a specific group of rusted-on politicians hold their jobs a little longer.

Redistricting in California got occupied by the Democrats. The Democrats stuffed the 'nonpartisan' panel with Manchurian candidates while the GOP sat around with its organizational thumb up its backside.

The unions have already been twisting arms in Sacramento trying to put through a lot of restrictions on what cities and counties can do to dig themselves out. I expect to see that effort double now.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2012 09:55 AM (o+SC1)

102 Etiwanda...a former neighbor of mine that was a CHP officer who died in the line of duty was from there.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at June 06, 2012 10:09 AM (4s7w4)

103 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at June 06, 2012 10:49 AM (Xb3hu)

104 If you can get the people in San Jose to go against the public employee unions, then perhaps the California GOP has a tiny, angstrom sized change of not being creamed in California this November. At least we can hope...

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 06, 2012 12:33 PM (XvHmy)

105 Rancho Cucamongo...my daughter thinks I made that name up.

Posted by: sexypig at June 06, 2012 01:02 PM (wWV5q)

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