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Uploaded: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 9:07 AM
Updated: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 8:28 AM
Houston loses Contra Costa bid, Wilson wins GOP 15th District race
Buchanan wins 2/3rds of votes cast in Democratic nomination for 15th
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by Jeb Bing
Pleasanton Weekly Staff
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 | In Tuesday's primary, H. Abram Wilson, San Ramon's mayor since 2002 and its first elected mayor, defeated three other well-known candidates to win the Republican nomination for the 15th State Assembly District seat that's being vacated by Assemblyman Guy Houston (R-San Ramon), who is termed out after six years of service.
Houston lost Tuesday in his bid to defeat Contra Costa County 3rd District Supervisor Mary Piepho.
On the Democratic Party ticket, San Ramon Valley school district board member Joan Buchanan trounced challenger Ted Ford, receiving 19,276 votes, or 66.6 percent, to Ford's 9,709 votes, or 33.4 percent of the votes cast in Tuesday's state primary contest.
In other key races affecting Pleasanton voters, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi (D-Castro Valley) received 22,663 votes, or 83.9 percent of the votes cast, to win her party's renomination for a second term over Jason Teramoto, who received 4,370 votes, or 16.1 percent. Republicans nominated Lou Filipovich, who ran without opposition and received 7,638—or all of the votes cast in that contest.
In the 20th Assembly District, which includes Pleasanton's southeast side from roughly First Street out to Ruby Hill, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico (D-Newark) ran unopposed for a third nomination to a seat he's held for four years, receiving 18,657 votes. His Republican challenger will be Jeffrey Wald, who also ran unopposed for his party's nomination, receiving 7,772 votes.
In the race for the 11th Congressional District, incumbent Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) received 33,997 votes to win the Democratic Party nomination for a second term. His challenger Dean Andal of Stockton received 35,042 to gain the Republican nomination. Both men ran unopposed.
Voter turnout, as projected, was low, with only 22.2 percent of the state's 16.1 million registered voters going to the polls. Alameda County was slightly better, with 24.2 percent—or 175,735 voters—casting ballots out of 725,098 registered voters in the county. Voting results for Pleasanton have not yet been determined, although turnout was also low in the Weekly's survey of precincts Tuesday.
Propositions
Voters rejected Proposition 98, the hotly contested ballot measure that would have placed severe limits on government authority to condemn property for various uses and to away with rent controls.
The measure garnered 1,342 favorable votes, or 39 percent of the votes cast, against 2,091,890 against the measure, or 61 percent. A competing measure, Proposition 99, which continues government's eminent domain rights as currently authorized, won 62.5 percent of the vote, with 2,129,247 votes cast in favor of the proposition, compared to 1,282,763, or 37.5 percent, voting against the measure.
15th Assembly District
Besides the propositions, the only real contest for Pleasanton voters was in the 15th State Assembly Republican primary. The 15th, which stretches along I-680 to part of Walnut Creek and along I-5 to Elk Grove and the southern tip of Sacramento County, includes about 15 percent of Pleasanton, mostly in the vicinity of Mohr and Fairlands elementary schools.
That contest included Wilson, businesswoman Judy Lloyd of Pleasanton and Robert Rao and Scott Kamena of Livermore. With all votes now tabulated, Wilson won 9,680 votes, or 30.6 percent, with Rao finishing a close second with 9,231 votes, or 29.2 percent. Lloyd trailed with 7,193 votes, or 22.7 percent, followed by Kamena with 5,557 votes, or 17.5 percent of the votes cast in the Republican primary.
Wilson, who ran uncontested for reelection as San Ramon's mayor last year, told the Weekly that he plans to continue serving as mayor if elected to the State Assembly in November. He said state law does not bar assembly members from holding elected positions in their cities.
"When you look at their work, state legislators are there to help the cities," Wilson said. "We are the backbone. Anyone who has been in local politics as either a councilman or mayor adds a lot to the mix when they go to Sacramento." Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Sarah, a member of the Walnut Grove Elementary School community, on Jun 4, 2008 at 9:37 am I believe it is unfortunate that the headline for this story on the Home Page calls someone a 'loser.' What example does the Pleasanton Weekly think it is setting for the children in this community? What a thoughtless and insensitive headline.
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 10:03 am HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Jun 4, 2008 at 1:54 pm Now now good people, lets not laugh out loud because the loser lost...one loud tee hee hee is enough...
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 3:42 pm Maybe the headline should read "Winners and Winners Too"? Let's sugarcoat even the most innocuous of things for our kids. That is surely not damaging to them. What a great idea!
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Posted by Rick, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm Sarah, you have a good point here. I think anybody who runs for an office to try to make our place better should be commended. It is a sacrifice.
Even though the Weekly got recognized for signing up to be an "organization of character" last week, they probably feel that "character" does not sell newspapers; conflict does. They obviously did not care about the character of compassion.
I would suggest that the Weekly has all of the community of character elements on a sign-off sheet and they make sure that each article/opinion piece meets all of the character traits of the "community of character" before being published. The traits we are modeling for our youth are: Responsibility, Compassion, Self-Discipline, Honest, Respect, and Integrity.
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 4:15 pm Don't let your kids pay attention to the stock market. There are lots of winners and losers there!
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 4:16 pm Now, demand that Gina writes something apologetic in her column in the Weekly.
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Posted by frank, a resident of the Pleasanton Heights neighborhood, on Jun 4, 2008 at 9:11 pm Wow. These blogs really flush out some stuff. You'd think we followed the hare down the rabbit hole.
Hey, Rick: "The traits we are modeling for our youth are: Responsibility, Compassion, Self-Discipline, Honest, Respect, and Integrity." Where in this list does it say that one must lie and misrepresent by writing something other than the obvious fact that individuals lose elections and others win?
Hey, Sarah: Since when has the Pleasanton Weekly stopped writing its news articles for the adult population of Pleasanton and instead has become primary reading material for children? And these children are to be fed an ideology that indoctrinates them into thinking they don't have to learn, develop, grow, improve, exert effort, train, compete, strive for goals, etc. because everyone is a winner! Automatically!
So, the message is: Kids, don't put any effort into anything because you are deemed to be winners irrespective of your actions (note that in everything we permit you to read you will find everyone is a winner in the adult world). Be anything you want. And you high achievers out there, knock it off because you will NOT be recognized. You are the same as the non achievers. We, the adults, hereby appoint you ALL WINNERS!
The other part of the message is: adult world, including the news media, stay on this message directed toward the kids or ELSE we will accuse you of bad things.
These folks would have it like the Land of Oz, where the scarecrow's evidence of having a brain was the paper diploma that he was given.
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 5, 2008 at 8:53 am This was the best joke I heard yesterday. It was right up there with someone telling me that Obama picked Schwartzenegger for a running mate. It proves that Cholo's usage of the word "Plutonians" for us isn't that far off the mark.
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Posted by Nancy, a resident of the Downtown neighborhood, on Jun 5, 2008 at 12:59 pm Thousands of ballots remain uncounted as the county registrars continue to process absentee ballots. Perhaps it is too early to declare a winner in the AD 15 Republican primary?
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Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Jun 5, 2008 at 7:36 pm Shut up Nancy....please, just shut up!
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Posted by frank, a resident of the Pleasanton Heights neighborhood, on Jun 5, 2008 at 9:42 pm No, Nancy. I would put it as maybe it's too early to declare a loser. Sarah would put it as it's too early to declare a winner (2) too. Rick would put it as it's too early to run the "community of character" test on whatever it's declared. And, finally, the March Hare would say it's too early to declare anything other than "tea time".
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Posted by Jerry, a resident of the Oak Hill neighborhood, on Jun 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm Uh Oh, do you suppose someone won't get a trophy!!!!
Not long ago there was a segment on "60 Minutes" about the kids that grew up in the "No Losers" era. They still believe they're entitled to "everything". Business's give their supervisors classes on how to relate to employees from that era that can't handle "No" and how to pamper them. Please don't tell me we're still in that era.
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Posted by frank, a resident of the Pleasanton Heights neighborhood, on Jun 5, 2008 at 10:11 pm Sarah, are you one of the 60 minutes' poster children? Rick?
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Posted by Joanne, a resident of the Del Prado neighborhood, on Jun 6, 2008 at 10:47 am I think there is an issue of semantics here. Winners and Loosers seems to indicate the person is a winner or a looser. That is different than Winning a Race or Loosing a Race. Calling somebody a looser is different than saying somebody lost a race. Perhaps the headline should have been "Election Results".
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 6, 2008 at 11:14 am Jerry,
Now that's funny!
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 6, 2008 at 11:28 am How about "Victor and Winner"?
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Posted by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 6, 2008 at 11:42 am Joanne,
I don't agree with you that the headline should be sugarcoated. Using the words "loser" and "winner" in relation to a political race is common parlance just as it is when talking about the stock market. Just do a Google search for "political loser" to see how prevalent it is! A better headline would have been "Election Loser and Winner".
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Posted by Kevin, a resident of Livermore, on Jun 9, 2008 at 6:06 pm How about we're all Losers, based on the Losers that continue to get into office and keep Losing money ("Taxes" for those of you Prop 99 rent control folks) down those rabbit holes. How thoughtless are they?
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