elections

[gwynnega]

I'm not happy about yesterday's Republican gains. But I am delighted beyond words that Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina lost. Delighted to say goodbye to Ahnold and hello again to Jerry Brown. (Maybe we'll even be able to pass a budget now.)

So, not thrilled about the state of the country, but happy to live in California...

Comments

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Not in CA anymore, but I still care about the state and a I EVER happy that Arnold went bye bye, and Meg Whitman was not elected. Perhaps they will now try to rebuild secondary and higher education and again provice the necessary support to people with disabilities. Or is it too much to hope for?

[gwynnega]

Perhaps they will now try to rebuild secondary and higher education and again provice the necessary support to people with disabilities.

I certainly hope so (and I hope they restore funding to public libraries, as well). At any rate, the chances of these things happening are a lot better with Jerry Brown than with Arnold or Meg...

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, don't get me started on Meg. CA dodged a bullet there.

[gwynnega]

I know! I couldn't stand her, especially when I heard her debating Brown.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Also I am taking solace in the blueness of my former state, but my current state is so RED, I am trying to tune it out...

[krylyr.livejournal.com]

Geez, I cannot begin to express how happy I was Meg Whitman lost. I was all geared up for her to win. I guess it's not that easy to buy an election after all, because if it was, she would have been elected.

Also happy about Boxer, and Hasta La Vista the Governator. Bummed Prop 19 didn't pass, though.

[gwynnega]

It seems like Meg Whitman's overspending on her campaign in this economic climate turned off a lot of voters.

It feels like Ahnold has been Governator for about a hundred years!

I voted for Prop 19, but considering all that could've gone badly in the California elections and didn't, I'm not unduly upset it didn't pass. I did think Prop 19 made a lot of sense, though.

[treebee.livejournal.com]

It just makes me sick how much she spent. Even a fraction of a fraction of that money would make my life so much better.

[gwynnega]

It boggles the mind how much she spent...

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

I voted for Prop 19, but considering all that could've gone badly in the California elections and didn't, I'm not unduly upset it didn't pass. I did think Prop 19 made a lot of sense, though.

I feel exactly the same way. The San Jose newspaper pointed out that 19 would have created an untenable legal situation and failed to create the infrastructure we'd need to regulate and tax marijuana. I can't disagree with that. Usually I vote against propositions that are well-intentioned but look like they'll cause as many problems as they solve, but in this case I had to vote for it anyway, just because it was the right thing to do. But I admit to feeling some small amount of relief that we won't be presented with the challenge of dealing with it just yet.

[gwynnega]

It also didn't help that Eric Holder said Prop 19 wouldn't keep cases from being prosecuted on a federal level.

[gwynnega]

On an unrelated note, tomorrow SOAPnet is supposed to go back to the 1975 Ryan's Hope eps!

[krylyr.livejournal.com]

I agree - 19 not passing is small potatoes in comparison to things like Brown winning.

Also - so thankful 23 did *not* pass and got beat down so vehemently. I was so mad about that one .

[gwynnega]

I'm also very thankful Prop 23 didn't pass!

[usedtobeljs]

You are definitely in a better place than I.

[hugs]

[gwynnega]

Oh, poor Lori! As far as I know, California is the only state that actually went more Democrat this election. But we've had to endure Ahnold for what feels like forever...

::hugs::

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Somebody - Atrios? - said that a world where Jerry Brown was back but pot got voted down was a weird one indeed... I was pleased that both Boxer & Brown ran serious credible races and took their opponents seriously enough to win. Losing either seat or either of them would have been a huge loss to the public discourse as well as a disastrous result. I was also pleased that the budgeting prop - no more of that idiotic 2/3s business - and prop 23, the pollution standards one, passed.

The rest of the country, though, holy shit, with a couple notable exceptions...

(eta: I seem to have developed a random letter generator!)

[gwynnega]

The level of Republican gloating is pretty nauseating right now, but I suspect the old-school Republicans and the Tea Partiers may not get along so well once they actually have to work together...