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June 30, 2013 By Alex Vassar

Price Resignation Letter

Current Price resigned from the State Senate this morning, concluding his service with the longest resignation letter in more than a decade. At 240 words, Price’s letter is the longest since Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas resigned the very same seat in 2009 (but used an extra 56 words to do it. From a historian’s perspective, Price […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: California, Curren Price, Los Angeles, Special Election, State Senate

May 21, 2013 By Alex Vassar

SD16: Down to the wire.

Two special elections today…. In the SD-16 Special Primary, candidate Andy Vidak is in a close race to avoid a run-off on July 23rd. With 45% of precincts reporting, Vidak leads Leticia Perez 52.1%  to 40.9% with three other candidates making up the balance of the total. The significance of this special election rolling on to July is that […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: Andy Vidak, election results, Leticia Perez, Lorena Gonzalez, Special Election, State Senate

March 31, 2013 By Alex Vassar

SD-16 and AD-80 candidates set

The Secretary of State will be releasing the official list of qualified candidates for the SD-16 and AD-80 Special Elections on April 2, but the Notice to Candidates (an early list of candidates that’s almost always identical to the qualified candidates list) came out late last week. The candidates are: Senate District 16 Mohammad Arif […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Assembly, State Senate Tagged With: AD-80, Ben Hueso, Michael Rubio, SD-16, Special Election

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