With Jim Nielsen receiving just over 50% of the vote, the Special Election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of State Senator Doug La Malfa has been filled. Nielsen will have the option of being sworn in as early as December. Senator La Malfa had resigned on September 1st, at the end of the […]
Election Night Parties (A Lesson from Charles F. Van de Water)
Friday marks the 140th birthday of Congressman-elect Charles F. Van de Water. Van de Water was one of those few elected officials in state history who was elected to an office but never took that seat. Van de Water was killed in a late night car crash while returning home from a party to celebrate […]
Assemblyman Ferrell
An email from Brian Ebbert of the Assembly Chief Clerk’s office shed light on something we had missed before: The Rev. F. Douglas Ferrell, who represented Los Angeles as an Assemblyman for two terms, has died. Actually, Ferrell died in 1982, but our research (which initially focused on the 1850s and has been working towards […]
