…so the Assembly came back in session briefly to vote for permanent freezing of COLA in social services programs, and CalWorks and IHSS anti-fraud measures. It got 43 votes, and only needed a majority, so it passes. Still nothing on the Prop. 98 payback changes. …Unbelievable. This is...
In the race for a 46th Assembly District seat, Deputy City Controller Barbara Friedman was the apparent winner of the Democratic nomination although only 114 votes separated her and Deputy City Atty. John Emerson. He declined to concede, pending the counting of an estimated 1,000 absentee ballot...
William J. York Jr., chairman of the Planning Commission, was the top vote-getter in the 6th District, with 32% of the vote. Villicana, the youngest of the candidates at 28, outspent her three opponents en route to her strong finish with 30% of the votes. “The last week or so, ...
who seemed to point to the justices either deciding that the proponents of the initiative didn’t have standing to defend it, or that the case should be dismissed altogether. Either scenario would allow for same-sex marriage in California, but not nationwide, because of lower...
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Proposition 8, amending California's State Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, was passed in 2008 with over 7 million votes. Consider also5 crazy facts.It marked the second time Californians had voted to preserve the true definition of marriage. (In 2000,...
RELATED:See complete results from all California propositions Meanwhile, a separate ballot measure that would allow some 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections was trailing. “No” votes for Prop. 18 were at about 54% with more than 11 million ballots counted. ...
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speak from Delaware on November 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. News outlets announced today that Joe Biden had reached the number of electoral votes needed to win the election and become the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty ...
Cranston easily won the race with 56.5% of the votes compared to Gann’s 37%. After the election Gann immediately went back to tackling what he viewed as government inadequacies with his Victims Bill of Rights initiative, Proposition 8 on the June, 1982, ballot. ...