Dismal turnout for runoff elections

My California correspondant weighs in with the following:

SENATE ELECTION: Norma Torres beats Paul Leon for Inland seat

BY JIM MILLER |

SACRAMENTO BUREAU |

May 14, 2013; 08:26 PM |

SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Norma Torres defeated Ontario Mayor Paul Leon in Tuesday’s special election to fill a vacancy in the state Senate seat that extends from Pomona to San Bernardino. In another vote with anemic turnout, Torres, D-Pomona, opened a significant lead over Leon, a Republican, shortly after polls closed. With all precincts reporting, she had 59.4 percent of the vote to Leon’s 40.6 percent.

Torres will serve out the almost 19 months remaining on the term of former state Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod. The Chino Democrat resigned her 32nd Senate District seat in January to go to Congress. Torres will run for re-election in the redrawn 20th Senate District. That seat is similar to the 32nd, but includes Chino and excludes all but about one-third of San Bernardino.

Torres and Leon were the top finishers in a six-candidate special primary election in March. The Pomona Democrat was the strong favorite leading up to the special election in the 32nd, where Democrats have a 23-percentage point advantage and historically have won handily. Besides the district’s strong Democratic leanings, Torres outraised Leon by more than two-to-one. She also benefited from more than $472,000 in spending by independent groups since January.

Torres, who was a bilingual emergency dispatcher before her election to the Assembly in 2008, received 44 percent of the vote in March. She won all but one of the precincts in the 32nd’s Pomona portion and two-thirds of the precincts in the district’s San Bernardino County portion. Leon is a longtime local elected official and received 26.4 percent of the votes in March. He received the most votes in about a quarter of the district’s precincts.

A little more than 9 percent of voters participated in the March 12 special primary election. Torres topped four Democrats, including San Bernardino Auditor-Controller Larry Walker, who finished a distant third behind Leon.

As of late Tuesday evening, turnout stood at about 9.7 percent.

Torres’ win means Democrats will have 28 seats in the Senate upon her swearing-in, one shy of what they held in December but one more than the two-thirds majority needed to pass tax measures, place initiatives on the ballot, and take other actions without Republican votes. There is another Senate special election next week. There likely will be another vacancy soon, though, with state Sen. Curren Price, D-Los Angeles, the favorite to win next week’s runoff for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

The election is good news for Torres but it means San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties will have to pay for at least one, and possibly two, more special elections to fill her Assembly seat. The Democratic-leaning 52nd Assembly District includes Pomona, Ontario and Chino.

Source:here

In case you forgot or this is the first time you're learning of this click here and it will make sense. Under 10% turnout. That says something.

Boycott the runoff election

My California correspondent weighs in:

A few weeks ago I told everyone about the elections in district 32 California state senate race which was held on March 12. The results reveal that there was no clear winner so there will be a runoff election on May 14. I have contacted the candidates in the race,Paul Leon and Norma Torres. I have received no reply. Here is that letter:

I was just reading at the Daily Bulletin Website about the election results: http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_22777447/torres-leon-grab-early-leads-state-senate-race?source=rss

I believe I may be able to shine some light on what happened: http://mensrightsboard.blogspot.com/2013/03/boycott-vote.html

Now will you take our concerns seriously. If you have a feminist advisor that is telling you to ignore us you are getting some very bad advice.

Want our votes? Answer my questions. Here is the original letter:

I am a men's rights activist or MRA and I advocate for men's issues and concerns. I was just at your website and I was wondering where you stand on issues that effect men. For instance:

1. When men and women are arrested for the same crime the man receives a harsher sentence than the woman or if she has teamed up with a man she can play the victim and testify against him even though they are equals. Not only that but when the death penalty is on the table women are spared the death penalty while men are not. Also women's prisons are much nicer than men's prisons. Does this sound fair to you? It doesn't to us.

2. When it comes to anti-male laws such as VAWA only men are arrested and prosecuted while female batterers go free,also male victims are ignored. Does this sound fair to you? It doesn't to us.

VAWA does occur at the state level as the following video will demonstrate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SC0a1_Vjs

I'm sure while campaigning you've met a lot of new people. Have you met Brian Banks:

http://mensrightsboard.blogspot.com/search?q=brian+banks

There are lots of other California men in prison based on some trumped up rape charge and because of rape shield laws they are unable to ferret out the true nature of their accusers.

If elected will you address and correct these inequalities and injustices men face?

Here are some men's rights sites:

http://ncfm.org/
http://www.mediaradar.org/
http://mensrightsboard.blogspot.com/
http://news.mensactivism.org/
http://www.avoiceformen.com/
http://www.cotwa.info/

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
Men's Rights Activist,Registered Voter
and Concerned Citizen

Here is their contact information: Paul Leon: www.Leonforsenate.com Norma Torres: www.normatorres.com

Unless they respond I'm not voting and I hope others join me.

I don't blame you,bro. I would sit this one out just you advocated last time. I certainly wouldn't cast a ballot for misandric candidates and I hope others in that district feel the same way.