Well you are one of the few here on FreeRepublic who feels that way. Most of us think that liberals and Democrats don't help things, and in fact make them worse. If you like Riordan fine, that's your right. But why waste your energy swapping one liberal for another. There is very little that is different between the two, and in some cases Davis is more conservative than liberal Dick.
Meanwhile conservative leaders up and down the state and across the country are backing Simon.
If you like liberal statists, you must be a very happy person right now. The silently suffering patriots in Claifornia on the other hand, have had enough of the social decay that Davis and Riordan and their ilk have heaped upon us. Change is in the wind.