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March 23, 2015 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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

January 8, 2015 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

Three Senators Leave for Congress

The Senate Daily Journal for January 5th is now online, containing the resignation letters for State Senators Mark DeSaulnier, Steve Knight and Mimi Walters. It’s notable that all three letters arrived on different days and all three specified different days and times for the respective resignations to take place. DeSaulnier wrote his letter before Christmas, resigning at 11:59 p.m. on January 2nd, […]

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