Posted on 11/27/2008 11:17:12 AM PST by LdSentinal
Late last night, Hannah-Beth Jackson conceded to Tony Strickland in the hotly contested race for California’s 19th State Senate District. That ends more than three weeks of waiting for the remaining votes to roll in. Some are still to be counted, but Strickland leads by about 900 votes, and Jackson is conceding a victory is now mathematically impossible. This marks the conclusion of the state’s most expensive legislative race in history — costing more than $10 million — and also one of the closest ever.
In the November 26 email to the media and her supporters, Jackson’s campaign team explained, “Approximately 415,000 ballots having been counted in the California 19th District Senate election, Hannah-Beth trails her opponent by about 800 votes and has officially conceded his victory. She carried Santa Barbara County by 15,000 votes, lost Ventura County by 11,000 votes (giving her a 4,000 vote edge in the combined counties), but lost the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles County by 5,000 votes. It has been a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs, and she has been a courageous and gallant competitor to the end. Thank you for your continuing support.”
So, to clarify, the Republican won.
Yes, the Republican (Tony Strickland) won.
From everything I’ve read about Strickland, he seems like a pretty solid conservative. I’m assuming, perhaps somewhat unfairly, that his opponent is a screaming liberal.
So this is good news.
Your assumption is correct. As usual, the bleeding heart libs of Santa Barbara voted for the lib Dem. It took Ventura County and conservative suburban LA County to offset them.
If you want to see what these libs have done to Santa Barbara, take a walk around what used to be a beautiful downtown area. It is now infested with homeless sitting around begging in just about every nook and cranny. We drove up the CA coast last year. The only place that we stopped and would not return to was SB because it had turned into a homeless pit.
Something else to be thankful for!
You might also need to assume that the democrat is a woman. (The screaming liberal part is taken for granted.)
Well, I’ll give you still something else to be thankful for: Stand by, in the next couple days Tom McClintock will be declared the winner in CA-4th. Happy Thanksgiving!
Something is really going wrong in Santa Barbara.
There used to be some sane people there, but now it resembles Santa Cruz.
Its not so much the homeless, but the pierced, tattooed, and spiked young women there that make me sick. The town of the (almost) living dead.
“I’m assuming ... that his opponent is a screaming liberal.”
The hyphenated name is a dead giveaway ;)
That’s a good analogy.
“Which one is the Republican?”
Hard to tell.
And the haircut is another dead giveaway.
The one without the hyphen, I'm guessing.
LOL. They just can't bring themselves to say it.
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