Once again, Arnold Schwarzenegger chooses crass party politics over doing what he claims to be fighting for: saving the state money. So, instead of consolidating the general election with the SD-15 runoff, we’ll be having a one-off special election in the middle of September:<\/p>\n
In a move that will likely tick off Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t planning on consolidating the special election to fill GOP Sen. Abel Maldonado’s Senate seat with the November general election.<\/p>\n
“The governor believes it’s his responsibility to fill this as quickly as possible and have a full complement of legislators for the budget talks and also for key pieces of legislation,” spokesman Aaron McLear said today.<\/p>\n
Maldonado plans to resign his seat this afternoon, after he is sworn-in as lieutenant governor. Schwarzenegger will then have 14 days to call a special election to fill the seat, meaning a run-off election would likely take place at the end of August or beginning of September.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not consolidating will cost the state several million dollars at a time when the state is desperate for funding.<\/p>\n
From an electoral standpoint, this will clearly hurt John Laird. He will be forced to compete in a run-off election with dismal turnout, and once again, the few will pick for the many.<\/p>\n
Now, we will simply have to work doubly hard for John Laird, the challenge has been raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once again, Arnold Schwarzenegger chooses crass party politics over doing what he claims to be fighting for: saving the state money. So, instead of consolidating the general election with the SD-15 runoff, we’ll be having a one-off special election in the middle of September:<\/p>\n
In a move that will likely tick off Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t planning on consolidating the special election to fill GOP Sen. Abel Maldonado’s Senate seat with the November general election.<\/p>\n
“The governor believes it’s his responsibility to fill this as quickly as possible and have a full complement of legislators for the budget talks and also for key pieces of legislation,” spokesman Aaron McLear said today.<\/p>\n
Maldonado plans to resign his seat this afternoon, after he is sworn-in as lieutenant governor. Schwarzenegger will then have 14 days to call a special election to fill the seat, meaning a run-off election would likely take place at the end of August or beginning of September.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not consolidating will cost the state several million dollars at a time when the state is desperate for funding.<\/p>\n
From an electoral standpoint, this will clearly hurt John Laird. He will be forced to compete in a run-off election with dismal turnout, and once again, the few will pick for the many.<\/p>\n
Now, we will simply have to work doubly hard for John Laird, the challenge has been raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-30W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}