{"id":2602,"date":"2002-11-07T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/11\/republicans-gain-ground-in-california\/"},"modified":"2002-11-07T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T17:49:28","slug":"republicans-gain-ground-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/07\/republicans-gain-ground-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans gain ground in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tOne outcome in Tuesday’s election that deserves notice is the Republican pickup of Assembly seats:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Democrats easily retained the balance of power Tuesday in the California Legislature, but Republicans dealt a blow to the leadership of Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson by gaining two seats in the lower house — and potentially a third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may not seem like much, but recall that Assembly districts were recently redrawn with the goal of preserving the 50\/30 split by protecting incumbent parties. So picking up two or three seats means Republicans successfully bucked the trend, and overcame fund-raising advantages to do so. These districts are severely Gerrymandered, and one Republican winner – Dublin mayor Guy Houston – had to move because the district was drawn specifically with excluding him in mind. He succeeds Lynne Leach, also a Republican, representing the Tri- Valley area of the East Bay.<\/p>\n

Half-a-million absentees remain to be counted statewide, which means Tom McClintock will probably emerge victorious over E-Bay hack Steve Westly, and Dem Rusty Areias is in big trouble in his state Senate race.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One outcome in Tuesday’s election that deserves notice is the Republican pickup of Assembly seats: Democrats easily retained the balance of power Tuesday in the California Legislature, but Republicans dealt a blow to the leadership of Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson by gaining two seats in the lower house — and potentially a third. It may … Continue reading “Republicans gain ground in California”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-FY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}