Posted on 01/05/2011 9:12:32 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier
Assemblyman Ted Gaines won the Senate District 1 special election race with 63.2 percent of the vote as reported by the California Secretary of State’s office at 11 p.m. Tuesday.
The Associated Press called the race for Gaines, R-Roseville, as he led over Mayor Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova. The pair emerged as the top vote-getters in their parties after the special primary Nov. 2.
Cooley had 36.8 percent of the vote as of 11 p.m.
The seat was formerly held by Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, who died last summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at rosevillept.com ...
Another conservative in California is always good news.
The more important question is this — WHO STILL CONTROLS CALIFORNIA’s LEGISLATURE ?
Jerry Brown + Democratic Legislature = STATUS QUO = Default + Bankrupcy
It is great news, probably won’t mean a sparrows fart in a hurricane now, but still good news.
Do you know the count? How wide is the gap? Is it even close?
No different from:
Arnold Schwarzenegger + Democratic Legislature = STATUS QUO = Default + Bankrupcy
The main thing is that this is one more Senate seat against tax hikes.
In order for the scumbags to raise taxes, they need to pick off (ie., buy) a small handful of Republicans.
This victory just made that job a wee bit harder.
Interestingly, no where in the Roseville News article does it state the margin of victory. Actually, the bi-line is about the cost of the election. Yea, right.
From the Lodi News Sentinel the numbers are...
With all 514 precincts reporting as of 11 p.m. Tuesday, unofficial results show Gaines received 81,945 votes (63.2 percent) and Cooley received 47,743 votes (36.8 percent).
Yes, a conservative blowout!!
From Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Legislature
The California State Legislature currently has a Democratic majority, with the Senate consisting of 24 Democrats, 13 Republicans, and 3 vacancies; and the Assembly having 52 Democrats and 28 Republicans. Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but it’s not one more.
The seat had been held by a Republican. This was merely a GOP hold of a GOP seat.
The Dems in both houses are fairly close to two-thirds majorities
Senate - 40 members (27 needed for a super majority)
24-D
14-R
2 - vacant (I don’t know which party holds these seats)
Assembly 80 members (54 needed for a super majority)
52-D
28-R
The Democrats have controlled the state Senate continuously since 1970
With the exception of the brief interregnum of 1995-1996, when GOP had a one-vote majority in the state Assembly, the Dems have controlled the Assembly continously since 1970.
-George
And to think, we were able to enjoy the holidays AND get to the polls. My gosh, the media was wrong again ...we can walk and chew gum at the same time!
Agreed, on the other hand Senator Gaines beat out two other Repbulicans by running on his conservative credentials and agenda (cut spending, balance the state budget, etc.).
I'd have to do more research on Dave Cox's voting record (untimely death during the summer), but I think the cause of conservatism in the state spikes noticeably upward. Still very much in the minority, it is, nevertheless, another voice for common sense within the chamber.
Gerrymandering works.
I voted yesterday for Gaines and got my “I Have Voted” sticker. We are one of the most conservative counties in CA. I voted and then went to the store. Two women at different times saw my voting sticker. One asked if I was a conservative. I said I was. She said she was too and was glad the sticker had reminded her to go vote. Another, a librarian type who I assumed might be a liberal, said she wanted to make sure the wrong guy didn’t win, that she hadn’t been political until the tea party but that she was going to rush to the polls after work to vote for Gaines. Women are awake and are now not afraid to say they are conservatives. This is the democrats’ worst fear.
Thanks, but ouch. Almost a 2-to-1 dominance. Ouch.
The name “Gaines” is definitely familiar to me. I have a cousin in Calif. with the same last name! She’s somewhat elderly now, but one of the youngest of my older gen. cousins, and my Mom’s niece! Of course, it’s her married name; but I’m wondering if he’s (T. Gaines)related to us by marriage? That would be cool; we’d have relatives in “high places”!
Gaines has been around for a long time. He’s Conservative, Evangelical Christian for sure, but unfortunately, he’s not the brightest bulb on the tree.
I agree that it has to start somewhere. One election, one elected official at a time, we must reclaim our once-great state of California.
If someday we can even make California a competitive state — purple is much better than blue — that would change the electoral map profoundly.
We have to have hope. It may be a fool’s hope, but better a fool’s hope than despair.
Just think how hopeless things seemed for conservatives and the GOP in 1974, following Watergate.
Yet Watergate cleared the way, eventually, for Ronald Reagan. It placed the Dems. in the position of undertaking their usual over-reach. It made 1976 possible.
But more importantly, it made 1980 possible.
Reagan never quit. He loved the United States too much. George Washington never quit. Abraham Lincoln never quit. FDR, as misguided as he was about economics, never quite when it came to World War II. Churchill never quit. George W. Bush, despite his mistakes, never quit.
So in 1980, to paraphrase what the joyous people of England said in 1558 when Queen Elizabeth I took the throne, “God gave us our Reagan.” (the original phrase, following the miserable years of Henry 8, and Bloody Mary, was “then God gave us our Elizabeth)
Valley Forge and the toll of a necessary war on President Lincoln — as documented by the increasingly gaunt photos of Lincoln over the final five years of his life — should be proof enough that people who were far greater than us never quit on the United States.
Until you can spend the entire winter in a forest in a pup tent about 18 miles from Philadelphia, until you can do that, let us never complain about any burden we must carry today to improve our nation’s politics.
God didn’t give us our George III, or our Jimmy Carter, or our Al Gore.
Instead, God gave us our Washington. God gave us our Lincoln. God gave us our Roosevelt. God gave us our Truman. God gave us our Reagan. God gave us our George W. Bush. God gave us our Tea Party.
This nation has a calling. It has a duty. Several times, it has been called to be the defender of liberty worldwide. Start with the Spanish Armada, and you will see that a higher power has guided the emergence of liberty between the shining seas.
A force being our comprehension has determined that the United States had to be in the right place at the right time. WW1, WW2, Soviet Union, Islamo-fascism.
Liberty and this nation were born with a hostile sea between it and the warlords of Europe and a vast sea between it and the warlords of Asia.
This experiment in Liberty couldn’t have been born and nurtured anywhere else geographically.
This nation has a calling. That calling, that fate, that “rendezvous with destiny” isn’t easy. It’s hard.
Then again, just ask Jesus or Lincoln and they’ll tell you:
It’s hard to be God’s spear.
REPOST - sorry - I meant a force ***beyond*** our comprehension
I agree that it has to start somewhere. One election, one elected official at a time, we must reclaim our once-great state of California.
If someday we can even make California a competitive state — purple is much better than blue — that would change the electoral map profoundly.
We have to have hope. It may be a fool’s hope, but better a fool’s hope than despair.
Just think how hopeless things seemed for conservatives and the GOP in 1974, following Watergate.
Yet Watergate cleared the way, eventually, for Ronald Reagan. It placed the Dems. in the position of undertaking their usual over-reach. It made 1976 possible.
But more importantly, it made 1980 possible.
Reagan never quit. He loved the United States too much. George Washington never quit. Abraham Lincoln never quit. FDR, as misguided as he was about economics, never quite when it came to World War II. Churchill never quit. George W. Bush, despite his mistakes, never quit.
So in 1980, to paraphrase what the joyous people of England said in 1558 when Queen Elizabeth I took the throne, “God gave us our Reagan.” (the original phrase, following the miserable years of Henry 8, and Bloody Mary, was “then God gave us our Elizabeth)
Valley Forge and the toll of a necessary war on President Lincoln — as documented by the increasingly gaunt photos of Lincoln over the final five years of his life — should be proof enough that people who were far greater than us never quit on the United States.
Until you can spend the entire winter in a forest in a pup tent about 18 miles from Philadelphia, until you can do that, let us never complain about any burden we must carry today to improve our nation’s politics.
God didn’t give us our George III, or our Jimmy Carter, or our Al Gore.
Instead, God gave us our Washington. God gave us our Lincoln. God gave us our Roosevelt. God gave us our Truman. God gave us our Reagan. God gave us our George W. Bush. God gave us our Tea Party.
This nation has a calling. It has a duty. Several times, it has been called to be the defender of liberty worldwide. Start with the Spanish Armada, and you will see that a higher power has guided the emergence of liberty between the shining seas.
A force beyond our comprehension has determined that the United States had to be in the right place at the right time. WW1, WW2, Soviet Union, Islamo-fascism.
Liberty and this nation were born with a hostile sea between it and the warlords of Europe and a vast sea between it and the warlords of Asia.
This experiment in Liberty couldn’t have been born and nurtured anywhere else geographically.
This nation has a calling. That calling, that fate, that “rendezvous with destiny” isn’t easy. It’s hard.
Then again, just ask Jesus or Lincoln and they’ll tell you:
It’s hard to be God’s spear.
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