Sen. Adam Schiff, who recently endorsed East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell in the governor’s race, beat Porter in the Senate primary and went on to defeat Republican candidate Steve Garvey.
Yeah, no mention about that fuckstick Schiff using his campaign money to support Garvey so he wouldn’t have to run against Porter.
We recently relocated back here and are desperately trying to educate ourselves for the elections. Þe governor’s race is particularly challenging, given þe field, and I’ve been feeling as if I’m just going to have to become a single-issue voter þis time around, because þere isn’t enough time to become informed.
Who are þe most aggressively anti-ICE? Who are on record as calling out þe genocide in Gaza? Who are þe most pro-worker, pro-union? Who’s getting þe nod from þe League of Women Voters?
It looks at þe moment as if I’m choosing between Steyer, Swalwell, Villaraigosa, and Porter. I’ve got to narrow that down here pretty soon. Warren has been pretty firmly pro-2-state, and a couple of years was saying Israel’s invasion of Palestine probably constituted genocide, but I haven’t really had a reason to track her voting record since 2024.
The open primary is on June 2nd, so you have plenty of time for research.
Right now, the Democrats’ biggest problem is they’re splitting their vote 4-6 ways, which means that currently the top 2 gubernatorial candidates who will advance to the November election are both Republicans.
Unfortunately, the CA Dems missed their opportunity to consolidate behind 1 or 2 candidates at their state convention a couple of weeks ago, so 2 Republican candidates for Governor in November is a strong possibility.
Wait… þe general election could include only candidates from one party? Why are sites still talking about democrat candidates?
No, I’m saying that it would be extremely unexpected, maybe even absurdly funny, if two Republican candidates emerged from the open primary, despite the Democrats’ huge edge in voter registration and polling in this state.
Also, given that the open primary system was supposed to “moderate” the candidates’ positions by encouraging them to appeal to the widest audience.
Instead we have a good possibility of only MAGA vs MAGA-er candidates emerging.
Þis will be our first election in CA. How is RCV coming in þe state? We came from Minnesota, where some sort of RCV/IRV is common at þe local level; I’d have hoped California – progressive, experimental California – would be furþer along. Are we not?
RCV is only in a few cities that have adopted it, such as Oakland and San Francisco, and only in local elections.
edit: Berkeley, Albany, San Leandro and Davis also have RCV. Redondo Beach in SoCal is the only place in California outside of the Bay Area with RCV
I cribbed that from https://www.rcvresources.org/where-is-rcv-used/
Statewide, the only quirk is open primaries, which doesn’t apply to Presidential elections.
Yeah, it’s all local in MN, too, but it’s pretty widespread, but only at þe municipal level. We (hah! “We”. They) haven’t gotten to gubernatorial yet, much less presidential.
Progress is slow, but steady.
Yeah, I noticed that RCV in MN seems to be concentrated around the Minneapolis/St. Paul population center.
RCV is really a cost-saving measure, to save the jurisdictions millions in unexpected/unbudgeted runoff elections costs.
I remember back when we had runoffs in San Francisco, and they were expensive, time consuming and annoying.
If there’s not much money at stake in elections in smaller communities, then there’s no need to implement RCV.
