Tag: California Democrats
Two New Measures Will Make Voter Registration Easier in California
While the reanimated corpse of Jim Crow stalks states where Republicans rule, with a spate of new laws intended to depress voter registration and turnout among African Americans and Latinos, among others, lawmakers in California, where Democrats control the executive and legislative branches, have put two measures in place to make registering to vote easier.
First, Secretary of State Debra Bowen launched a new system that enables voters to register online:
Final Election Results Give Dems a Clean Sweep in California – Post-Election Polls Suggest GOP Is Walking Wounded, Maybe Walking Dead
Go ahead: Accuse me of shooting the wounded. But it may be that the body already is dead.
I’m referring to the California Republican Party.
How alive could the state GOP be after suffering the pounding it took on Nov. 2, a day of historic party triumph elsewhere across America?
“It’s not just wounded, it’s in a coma,” says Republican Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado.
Maldonado was one of several Republican victims on election day. He lost the lieutenant governor’s race to Democratic San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Later in the week, just before Thanksgiving, results from the last two close races came in. Democrats won them both. San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris is now the state’s attorney general, and Rep. Jerry McNerney in the 11th District beat a tea bagger whose single issue is abolishing public education in the United States.
Now it’s official: No California Democrat lost a race on November 2, and Democrats even picked up yet another seat in the already lopsidedly Democratic-controlled state legislature.
