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Governor Brown today called a Special Election for the vacancy resulting from the resignation of State Senator Doug La Malfa. The text of the proclamation:
I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim and order that a special election shall be held on the 8th day of January, 2013, within the 4th Senate District of the State to fill the vacancy of the office of State Senator from that district resulting from the resignation of Senator Doug LaMalfa.
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Only one Medal of Honor awardee has ever been elected to the California Legislature. It was U.S. Navy Captain Willis W. Bradley, who was presented with the Medal during World War I. Bradley later served as Naval Governor of Guam (1929-1931), a Member of Congress from California (1947-1949), before being elected to the Assembly in […]
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