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Post by Sharon W on Jun 3, 2018 9:02:33 GMT -8
We mailed in our ballots last week as did my student. I hope there's a good turnout for this election.
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Post by Jeanne on Jun 3, 2018 13:05:44 GMT -8
This has been very helpful, Brian. It takes a village to keep up with everything going on. That Machiavellian thing about Newsome is important to me.
Roberta, Could you post a link that you mentioned Friday night about the judges' ratings?
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Post by Brian on Jun 3, 2018 23:00:12 GMT -8
Thank you, Jeanne. I don't know what resource Roberta had in mind, but here's the link to Sharon Kyle's page published on Saturday on the LA Progressive website with her recommendations for the Los Angeles County judge races alongside the ratings of the county bar association's Judicial Elections Evaluation Committee: www.laprogressive.com/judging-the-judges-june-2018/I decided a couple of decades ago to skip the judges since I'll hopefully never get to meet any of them. And because I realized that the ballot wasn't like an SAT test, where it was better to chance a wrong answer than leave a dot blank. Previously, I relied on the recommendations of attorneys I knew, starting with Homer Martin, who had an office on Commerce Avenue until the early 1980's. But if I trusted anyone to follow today, it would be Sharon Kyle. We mailed in our ballots last week as did my student. I hope there's a good turnout for this election. Me too! I hope that the kids registered for the first time and the disaffected Democrats who routinely skip state and local elections turn out on Tuesday. It's crucial. Because of the top two voting system, the June primary now matters more than the general election. Sharon, who got your vote for secretary of state?
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Post by Jeanne on Jun 4, 2018 5:27:35 GMT -8
Followed the link and it's the same one Roberta recommended. Thanks.
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Post by Sharon W on Jun 4, 2018 7:27:13 GMT -8
We mailed in our ballots last week as did my student. I hope there's a good turnout for this election. Me too! I hope that the kids registered for the first time and the disaffected Democrats who routinely skip state and local elections turn out on Tuesday. It's crucial. Because of the top two voting system, the June primary now matters more than the general election. Sharon, who got your vote for secretary of state? I went with Alex Padilla, mostly due to the Kamela Harris endorsement.
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Post by Brian on Jun 4, 2018 23:00:15 GMT -8
I know it's wacky, but counting the mailers helps me figure out how campaign money is spent and who's paying. Anni and I are both registered Democrats who always vote, so our mailbox usually sags before every election although we get surprisingly few duplicates. I say usually, because this statewide primary only garnered 31 mailers, seven fewer than we received for the special Assembly primary election on April 3. In comparison, last year we got 137 mailers for a city primary and 112 for the general election. In November 2016, a presidential election, the total was 74 pieces of campaign mail. This election, the money is apparently going to TV ads. We received no mail touting the biggest spenders on television -- Feinstein, Newsom, Chiang, Kounalakis, Hernandez and Becerra -- and charter schools mavens like Eli Broad only coughed up enough cash for one mailer for Villaraigosa. Most of the mailers received by Monday came from political action committees, not the candidates' own campaigns: - Governor - 1 pro-Villaraigosa and 3 anti-Chiang, all paid by PACs
- Attorney General - 1 from the Dave Jones campaign
- Superintendent of Public Instruction - 3 for Tuck from the charter schools billionaires, 1 for Thurmond paid by the California Democratic Party
- State Board of Equalization - 1 for Svonkin from a PAC
- Los Angeles County Sheriff - 2 from McDonnell's campaign
- 39th Assembly District - 8 for Rivas, four of those from her campaign and four from two PACs
- Slates - 10 of them, plus 1 from the California Democratic Party with its official endorsements
The number of slates goes up every election. They dress up as voter guides and imply Democratic Party endorsements, but the candidates pay for their spaces, the cheapest way to advertise for those running for down ballot races like judge.
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