June 27, 2007

It's Richardson (Almost)

CA Assemb. Laura Richardson (D) topped state Sen. Jenny Oropeza (D) and the rest of the field in yesterday’s CA-37 primary, but since she didn’t garner 50% of the vote, she’ll face a nominal 8/21 runoff before heading to Congress. The results, with 100% of the precincts reporting:

Richardson (D): 38%

Oropeza (D): 31%

McDonald (D): 9%

Kanaley (R): 8%

Mathews (D): 4%

Ramirez (R): 2%

Brezenoff (G): 1%

Leavitt (R): 1%

Guillory (R): 1%

Wilson (D): 1%

Peters (L): 1%

Parmer (D): .8%

Davis (D): .6%

Price (D): .4%

Grisolia (D): .4%

Ford (D): .4%

Evans (D): .1%

Because of California’s special election runoff rules, Richardson will face the top vote getters from each party -- police officer John Kanaley (R), Green party nominee Daniel Abraham Brezenoff and Libertarian Herb Peters -- in the 8/21 election. But in a CD that has a 58% Dem versus 20% GOP registration, this will be a cakewalk for Richardson.

Several weeks before the election, both frontrunners campaign’s released polls showing their candidate with the lead, but the Richardson campaign disagreed with Oropeza’s poll, saying it was a month old and questioned some of the methodology. Many analysts discussed the racial divide in the CD as well, and questioned whether an African American could keep the seat in a district that has gained a Hispanic plurality recently -- the composition of the district is 43% Hispanic and 25% African American. But in an election that saw only an 11% turnout, the African-American Richardson was obviously better organized and was able to defeat Oropeza [TIM SAHD].

Posted at 08:02 AM

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Comments

Does not look like Richardson needs our money, but may appreciate our endorsement.

She was to be our featured speaker at the So.Cal. regional conference last Sat but didn't show (canvassing instead?). And, she may have been put off because she was expecting our endorsement (dual)earlier, based on SoBay recommendation. (SoBay members were chagrined.)
Marguerite

Sharon Ball | 06.28.07 01:00 PM

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