California just finished our primaries and voted on a few ballot measures. The semi-official results have just been released moments ago.
CA Attorney General and former governor Jerry Brown has received the Democratic nomination for the gubernatorial race. He will be running against former eBay CEO Meg Whitman from the Republican ticket.
Whitman has already run afoul with many California voters when it surfaced she has rarely voted in California with the one proven exception of 1999 in Palo Alto. She apologized, calling her own voting record "atrocious." But the fact remains that this a woman who never took the time to weigh in on important matters effecting the state time and time again, who then suddenly decided she wants to be governor. It rings of the notion that Whitman thinks she can just buy her way into the seat.
Jerry Brown, on the other hand, is a person of good ethics. According to Wikipedia: "he refused many of the privileges and trappings of the office, forgoing the newly constructed governor's residence (which was sold in 1983) and instead renting a modest apartment at the corner of 14th and N Streets, adjacent to Capitol Park in downtown Sacramento. Instead of riding as a passenger in chauffeured limousines as previous governors had done, Brown was driven to work in a compact sedan."
Incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer will be running against Republican candidate Carly Fiorina.
The salvos have already begun to fly between Boxer and Fiorina over abortion, as you can read about here at the LA Times Web site.
Most notable for the "demon sheep" political ad that was widely circulated on the Internet, Carly Fiorina represents the far right-wing extremism of dirty pool politics (ala Karl Rove) and this pandering to the false notion that business experience amounts to good leadership in government.
Like Whitman, this appears to be a very wealthy woman who believes she can just buy her way into office.
Carly Fiorina has notably supported the "right to carry" for people on the terrorism no-fly list, saying this at a public discussion forum just prior to her nomination to the Senate candidacy. Obviously a person who thinks suspected terrorists should maintain any rights to carry guns is not fit to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Conversely Senator Barbara Boxer has a steadfast record of pro-education, pro-women's rights, and pro-environment stances to draw from. Boxer should also be noted to have co-authored the Jumpstart Broadband Act. Quoting Wikipedia: "This bill would make more spectrum available for use by devices that incorporate new broadband technology, such as WiFi."
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