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 […]
Some Cool Things Named After California Legislators
On Friday, the City of Compton renamed a street in honor of Senator Isadore Hall, who was born in the city, served on the local school district board, the city council, as well as representing the area in both houses of the Legislature. Reflecting on this (and having compiled a list of “legislator placenames” a […]
California Political History and The Lone Ranger (2013) movie
It has been more than two years since we wrote about Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the vampire Barnabas Collins in the movie “Dark Shadows”. Collins, as you may remember, was apparently named after a 1900s Assemblyman buried at the Sacramento City Cemetery. It’s happened again. In the Lone Ranger, a western movie set in 1869, the […]
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