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March 24, 2015 By Alex Vassar

Politics Can Be Brutal: The Painful Life of Buron Fitts

Buron Fitts served 696 days as Lieutenant Governor, for which he is scarcely remembered. After his resignation in 1928, Governor C. C. Young appointed an equally anonymous H. L. Carnahan to fill the vacancy. What Fitts is remembered for, when he is remembered, is for the scandals from his time as Los Angeles County District Attorney. Fitts […]

Filed Under: Constitutional Officers, Current Research, Deaths, JoinCalifornia, Top Stories

March 23, 2015 By Alex Vassar

Quirks of Term Limits

A quirky result of term limits; last year, John M. W. Moorlach was serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors with Pat Bates and Janet Nguyen. Now, all three are State Senators. But Moorlach, elected four months after the others will actually term out two years earlier. Term Limits 1.0 Under California’s first term […]

Filed Under: 2014 Election, 2016 Election, California law, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Propositions, Special Elections, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

March 18, 2015 By Alex Vassar

Runner and Moorlach Elected

In Tuesday night’s election, Sharon Runner easily won reelection to the State Senate, becoming only the third person to serve non-consecutive terms in the Senate in the past 50 years. Most recently, Jim Nielsen returned to the Senate in 2013 after a 23 year absence. Before then, John Holmdahl was reelected to the Senate in 1970 after […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Senate, Top Stories

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