The races in California went pretty much to expectations. The more extreme eminent domain measure went down 2:1, while the phony alternative posed by local governments passed. Tom McClintock won the congressional district being vacated by John Doolittle - he was running against Doug Ose - I would have preferred Ose but McClintock is an improvement over Doolittle. I am bothered by McClintock's rigid stances but Doolittle was both rigid and corrupt. Mark Leno won the SF senate district, Christopher Cabaldon seems to have lost in a Yolo Assembly district, Loni Hancock won in her race against Wilma Chan and Rod Wright seems to have won in an LA Senate district (I always thought he was the best choice) over Mervyn Dymally.
The best news of the day was the victory of Jim Neilsen - the former state senator ran in a north state Assembly district against a couple of other opponents. This is a Republican district so he should win in the fall. Jim will bring something sadly lacking in the legislature at this time - perspective and a commitment to building sound policy. Both houses could use about a half dozen each of those types of members. The Senate gets one like Jim with Carol Liu's victory in the Jack Scott district - so we only need about 5 each.
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