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March 15, 2012 By Alex Vassar

State Senator Warren Chase (1813-1891)

Today, an email from Richard Dungar shed a little more light on State Senator Warren Chase. Chase has been a little-known legislator, coming from the 1870-1886 blind spot (which saw the combination of very high legislator turn-over combined with few recorded biographic details). What we learned about Chase today was that he served in the […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Senate

March 15, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Random Letter Drawing

One of the overlooked events on the election calendar is the random letter drawing by the Secretary of State’s office. The logic behind the event goes like this; some voters are relatively uninformed. They don’t research the issues, the candidates, or (sometimes) even what the actual duties of a given office are. Although voters usually […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Congress, Current Research, State Assembly, State Senate

March 13, 2012 By Alex Vassar

2012 Candidate Listing begins

With the close of the regular candidate filing period on Friday, work has started on the listing of candidates for the 2012 elections. Of the 155 partisan contests to be decided in November, two (for President and U.S. Senate) have many candidates from many parties and the information will be posted as it becomes available. […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Congress, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

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