Thomas Elias: State Primary Season Is a Doozy

Summary

---

ONE exciting California primary election season is over and another is just beginning. And because voters defeated the proposed Proposition 93 term limit extensions for today's state legislators, the upcoming June campaigns promise to be at least as interesting and contested as the presidential primary was, just a lot more local.

In dozens of state Senate and Assembly districts from the Oregon line to the Mexican border, tight and unpredictable races are brewing among both Republicans and Democrats. Despite the reapportionment plan of 2001, designed to assure that almost all districts belong solidly to one party or the other, some hot races will even carry over to the fall.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Thomas Elias: State Primary Season Is a Doozy

One classic promises to come in the Palm Springs area 80th Assembly district, now held by Republican Bonnie Garcia, who will be termed out at year's end and can return home remembering how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger once described her ...

See the full content of this document

---