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.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Results of California state senate district 32
Earlier this week I had my California contributer post how he vetted the candidates and received no response so he informed me of the results and here they are:
Norma Torres and Paul Leon to face in Senate District 32 runoff
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/12/2013 09:33:23 PM PDT
Updated: 03/12/2013 10:52:01 PM PDT
The next round of the contest to elect a new state senator for the Inland Valley and San Bernardino area will be a traditional Democrat-versus-Republican affair after Democrat Norma Torres and Republican Paul Leon claimed the top two spots in Tuesday's special primary. With votes from 448 of 448 precincts counted, Torres had 13,295 votes and 43.6 percent of the vote while Leon had 8,064 votes, or 26.4 percent. The results are unofficial.
Since no candidate broke 50 percent, Torres and Leon will face off in a May 14 runoff.
Torres said she was not ready to claim victory at 9 p.m. based on early returns but said volunteers at her campaign headquarters in Fontana were excited.
"I think the early returns are coming out pretty strong, and I'm happy with the percentages," Torres said.
Leon, the mayor of Ontario, is running on a platform that included his experience in local government and a promise to use whatever influence he may acquire in Sacramento to continue his support for local control of L.A./Ontario International Airport.
Leon said his level of support among absentee voters is a sign that constituents in the Democratic-leaning district are looking for change in Sacramento.
"I think that with the partial results, we're pretty much where we thought we would be," Leon said shortly after 9 p.m.
Torres, elected to her third term in the Assembly last November, ran on a platform that included her support for extending the Gold Line light- rail line to ONT. The line's construction authority rail line's extension from Azusa to Montclair was approved last week. In the Assembly, Torres has also supported stricter foreclosure rules.
Following the top two were candidates San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller/Treasurer/Tax Collector Larry Walker, Rialto Unified School District board member Joanne Gilbert, Pomona Planning Commissioner Kenny Coble and Ontario Councilman Paul Vincent Avila.
Walker received 4.232 votes, or 13.9 percent; Gilbert had 2,134 votes, or 7 percent; Coble got 1,989 votes, or 6.5 percent; and Avila picked up 785 votes, or 2.6 percent.
Walker had held other local offices including San Bernardino County supervisor and Chino mayor during a political career spanning more than three decades. Walker has positioned himself as a fiscally conservative Democrat with enough financial experience to help keep state government's budget balanced.
Whoever wins in May will serve the remainder of Gloria Negrete-McLeod's Senate term, which expires in December 2014.
McLeod resigned from the state Senate in January to take a seat in the House of Representatives.
The primary's outcome gives the state GOP a chance to stage a comeback from its performance in the 2012 elections, when California Republicans fell to what may very well be an all-time low for the party.
Last November's election ended with Democrats holding veto proof majorities in both houses of the Legislature.
Source:click here
I guess a lot of California guys did avoid the polling station on March 12 and it shows. It appears that they heeded my California correspondent's advice and boycotted the election just as he advised and the results show it. In fact it appears that the people we were able to contact received more votes than those who were unreachable. But they didn't back men so men didn't back them. Perhaps now they will can their feminist advisors who told them to not take us seriously. This is what happens when you don't take the men's rights movement seriously.
Norma Torres and Paul Leon to face in Senate District 32 runoff
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/12/2013 09:33:23 PM PDT
Updated: 03/12/2013 10:52:01 PM PDT
The next round of the contest to elect a new state senator for the Inland Valley and San Bernardino area will be a traditional Democrat-versus-Republican affair after Democrat Norma Torres and Republican Paul Leon claimed the top two spots in Tuesday's special primary. With votes from 448 of 448 precincts counted, Torres had 13,295 votes and 43.6 percent of the vote while Leon had 8,064 votes, or 26.4 percent. The results are unofficial.
Since no candidate broke 50 percent, Torres and Leon will face off in a May 14 runoff.
Torres said she was not ready to claim victory at 9 p.m. based on early returns but said volunteers at her campaign headquarters in Fontana were excited.
"I think the early returns are coming out pretty strong, and I'm happy with the percentages," Torres said.
Leon, the mayor of Ontario, is running on a platform that included his experience in local government and a promise to use whatever influence he may acquire in Sacramento to continue his support for local control of L.A./Ontario International Airport.
Leon said his level of support among absentee voters is a sign that constituents in the Democratic-leaning district are looking for change in Sacramento.
"I think that with the partial results, we're pretty much where we thought we would be," Leon said shortly after 9 p.m.
Torres, elected to her third term in the Assembly last November, ran on a platform that included her support for extending the Gold Line light- rail line to ONT. The line's construction authority rail line's extension from Azusa to Montclair was approved last week. In the Assembly, Torres has also supported stricter foreclosure rules.
Following the top two were candidates San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller/Treasurer/Tax Collector Larry Walker, Rialto Unified School District board member Joanne Gilbert, Pomona Planning Commissioner Kenny Coble and Ontario Councilman Paul Vincent Avila.
Walker received 4.232 votes, or 13.9 percent; Gilbert had 2,134 votes, or 7 percent; Coble got 1,989 votes, or 6.5 percent; and Avila picked up 785 votes, or 2.6 percent.
Walker had held other local offices including San Bernardino County supervisor and Chino mayor during a political career spanning more than three decades. Walker has positioned himself as a fiscally conservative Democrat with enough financial experience to help keep state government's budget balanced.
Whoever wins in May will serve the remainder of Gloria Negrete-McLeod's Senate term, which expires in December 2014.
McLeod resigned from the state Senate in January to take a seat in the House of Representatives.
The primary's outcome gives the state GOP a chance to stage a comeback from its performance in the 2012 elections, when California Republicans fell to what may very well be an all-time low for the party.
Last November's election ended with Democrats holding veto proof majorities in both houses of the Legislature.
Source:click here
I guess a lot of California guys did avoid the polling station on March 12 and it shows. It appears that they heeded my California correspondent's advice and boycotted the election just as he advised and the results show it. In fact it appears that the people we were able to contact received more votes than those who were unreachable. But they didn't back men so men didn't back them. Perhaps now they will can their feminist advisors who told them to not take us seriously. This is what happens when you don't take the men's rights movement seriously.
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