California Elections:High votes for Alternative Party candidates

California’s Secretary of State has released the official vote totals for the 2010 elections, available here as PDF: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2010-general/complete-sov.pdf

Six parties are qualified for the ballot in California, including four alternative parties. The highest vote getter for each party include:

Pam Brown for Lt. Governor (Libertarian) 574,640 5.9%

Ann Menashe for Secretary of State (Green) 286,701 3.0%

Clay Pedersen for Insurance Commissioner (AIP) 198,352 2.1%

Dina J. Padilla for Insurance Commissioner (PFP) 293,512 3.1%

All four alternative parties had candidates for all statewide offices. Third place statewide went to Chelene Nightingale (AIP) for Governor; Pam Brown for Lt. Governor; Ann Menashe for Secretary of State; Andy Favor (Lib) for Controller; Charles Crittenden for Treasurer; Peter Allen (Green) for Attorney-General and Richard Bronstein (Lib) for Insurance Commissioner.

The Secretary of State’s report also includes totals for U.S. Senate, Reprsentatives, state Senate & Assembly along with ballot propositions, and includes county totals in each race.

Opeach Obama, I mean, is this the best we can do? [Lake] December 26, 2010

AHNOLD SWARTZ EN FAKER [Newsweek]:

He kept his promise to be a different kind of governor than Californians had seen before.

The perenially tanned seven-time Mr. Olympia confidently strode the halls of the state Capitol in designer suits and snakeskin cowboy boots as adoring children and adults jostled for photos.

The crowds still clamor for a shot with Schwarzenegger, even as his approval rating has fallen to 32 percent — about the same as Davis’ when he was recalled.

Deals were brokered over stogies and schnapps in a swank smoking tent he erected in the garden of the governor’s office in the state Capitol.

In the hall outside his office, where his name is emblazoned in gold lettering, reporters one day found a 250-pound bronze bear had been installed.

Never one to shy from a camera, Schwarzenegger posed for pics with a 7-foot python coiled around his neck at the state fair.

Bones were broken and stitches were needed when the “Austrian Oak” (a nickname from his bodybuilding days) crashed on his Harley-Davidson while riding without a proper motorcycle permit, then later shattered his femur while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho.

When lawmakers didn’t go along with him, he called them “girlie men” for failing to stand up to special interests he said controlled their agenda.

He once sent the Democratic leader of the state Senate a metal sculpture of bull testicles the size of a football, urging him to have the “fortitude” to make deep cuts to social service programs.

In one of hundreds of events to promote cutting government spending, he appeared in front of a giant faucet spewing red-colored water — symbolizing red ink — in a stunt straight out of the movies …………

[Lake: Fast back wards to 18 August 2003, just after the Jay Leno announcement ……… to Arnie’s Santa Monica corporate office (Navy and Main). Der Arnold agrees with Don Lake and other members of Citizens For A Better Veterans Home that the CALVETS / CDVA system is grossly disfunctional and even lethal. Promises to ‘shake things up’. Holly wood hype or Political Steer Manure? Probably lots of both!]

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Opeach Obama, I mean, is this the best we can do? [Lake] December 26, 2010
AHNOLD SWARTZ EN FAKER [Newsweek]:
He kept his promise to be a different kind of governor than Californians had seen before.
The perenially tanned seven-time Mr. Olympia confidently strode the halls of the state Capitol in designer suits and snakeskin cowboy boots as adoring children and adults jostled for photos.
The crowds still clamor for a shot with Schwarzenegger, even as his approval rating has fallen to 32 percent — about the same as Davis’ when he was recalled.
Deals were brokered over stogies and schnapps in a swank smoking tent he erected in the garden of the governor’s office in the state Capitol.
In the hall outside his office, where his name is emblazoned in gold lettering, reporters one day found a 250-pound bronze bear had been installed.
Never one to shy from a camera, Schwarzenegger posed for pics with a 7-foot python coiled around his neck at the state fair.
Bones were broken and stitches were needed when the “Austrian Oak” (a nickname from his bodybuilding days) crashed on his Harley-Davidson while riding without a proper motorcycle permit, then later shattered his femur while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho.
When lawmakers didn’t go along with him, he called them “girlie men” for failing to stand up to special interests he said controlled their agenda.
He once sent the Democratic leader of the state Senate a metal sculpture of bull testicles the size of a football, urging him to have the “fortitude” to make deep cuts to social service programs.
In one of hundreds of events to promote cutting government spending, he appeared in front of a giant faucet spewing red-colored water — symbolizing red ink — in a stunt straight out of the movies …………
[Lake: Fast back wards to 18 August 2003, just after the Jay Leno announcement ……… to Arnie’s Santa Monica corporate office (Navy and Main). Der Arnold agrees with Don Lake and other members of Citizens For A Better Veterans Home that the CALVETS / CDVA system is grossly disfunctional and even lethal. Promises to ‘shake things up’. Holly wood hype or Political Steer Manure? Probably lots of both!]
Carey Campbell December 23, 2010
Green Party ‘honored’ by description in US cable in wikileaks..
Green Party’s Keith Locke is delighted to have found a description of himself.
“I am honoured to be acknowledged in a US Embassy cable as ‘a passionate crusader with an incontrovertible and unwavering mistrust of United States foreign policy’,” he said today.
http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/green-mp-honoured-description-in-us-cable-3985038

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