Posted on 11/27/2008 11:17:12 AM PST by LdSentinal
Late last night, Hannah-Beth Jackson conceded to Tony Strickland in the hotly contested race for California’s 19th State Senate District. That ends more than three weeks of waiting for the remaining votes to roll in. Some are still to be counted, but Strickland leads by about 900 votes, and Jackson is conceding a victory is now mathematically impossible. This marks the conclusion of the state’s most expensive legislative race in history — costing more than $10 million — and also one of the closest ever.
In the November 26 email to the media and her supporters, Jackson’s campaign team explained, “Approximately 415,000 ballots having been counted in the California 19th District Senate election, Hannah-Beth trails her opponent by about 800 votes and has officially conceded his victory. She carried Santa Barbara County by 15,000 votes, lost Ventura County by 11,000 votes (giving her a 4,000 vote edge in the combined counties), but lost the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles County by 5,000 votes. It has been a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs, and she has been a courageous and gallant competitor to the end. Thank you for your continuing support.”
So, to clarify, the Republican won.
Yes, the Republican (Tony Strickland) won.
From everything I’ve read about Strickland, he seems like a pretty solid conservative. I’m assuming, perhaps somewhat unfairly, that his opponent is a screaming liberal.
So this is good news.
Your assumption is correct. As usual, the bleeding heart libs of Santa Barbara voted for the lib Dem. It took Ventura County and conservative suburban LA County to offset them.
If you want to see what these libs have done to Santa Barbara, take a walk around what used to be a beautiful downtown area. It is now infested with homeless sitting around begging in just about every nook and cranny. We drove up the CA coast last year. The only place that we stopped and would not return to was SB because it had turned into a homeless pit.
Something else to be thankful for!
You might also need to assume that the democrat is a woman. (The screaming liberal part is taken for granted.)
Well, I’ll give you still something else to be thankful for: Stand by, in the next couple days Tom McClintock will be declared the winner in CA-4th. Happy Thanksgiving!
Something is really going wrong in Santa Barbara.
There used to be some sane people there, but now it resembles Santa Cruz.
Its not so much the homeless, but the pierced, tattooed, and spiked young women there that make me sick. The town of the (almost) living dead.
“I’m assuming ... that his opponent is a screaming liberal.”
The hyphenated name is a dead giveaway ;)
That’s a good analogy.
“Which one is the Republican?”
Hard to tell.
And the haircut is another dead giveaway.
The one without the hyphen, I'm guessing.
LOL. They just can't bring themselves to say it.
Tony Strickland has been fighting the good fight as a social and fiscal conservative for quite a while. He is a good man on our side and we need more like him.
If they don’t say, you can assume the Pubbie won.
Isn't that always the question we find ourselves asking out here?
It would’ve been embarrassing if McClintock’s Senate seat had fallen to a rabid moonbat.
Don't know how long it's been since you visited S.B. but it's been a liberal pit for at least the past 25 years.
There seems to be direct correlation between UC campuses and control by the liberal elite. I attended a UCSB graduation of a friend's daughter 20 or so years ago and I thought I was in the Kremlin during a May Day parade.
We used to enjoy sitting in the seaside park near the pier. Last time we were there a couple of homeless guys really started sexually harrassing some young women who were sunbathing. When I said something I thought I was going to end up in a knife fight with both of them. Fortunately a couple of other guys joined me and the bums backed down. No cop in sight, then or any other time we were there. It's just a mini San Francisco: another beautiful place turned into a liberal toilet.
The south coast area of Santa Barbara County is home to 40,000 odd college students (UCSB [20K], SBCC[17K!], Westmont [2K], others) and assorted faculty. The rest of us get our votes canceled by the out of town kids. Glad Tony won. He’s invited up to our gun club for some trap shooting.
Please keep these stories up. We truly don’t need tourism. Truly. All it does is encourage the hotel owners to hire illegals to clean the rooms. Please go somewhere else. It’s a liberal cess-pit here. Don’t come. Honest. ;>)
It was very close. Next cycle they'll probably have the district gerrymandered enough to elect a liberal or enough L.A. escapees will have moved here to swing it for them. There's a huge migration of L.A. liberals to Ventura County, ironically to "escape" the mess liberals have made down there (they don't admit that of course). Our days as a conservative coastal county are numbered.
Well, I've seen what I've seen. Maybe there are places in S.B. that go counter to that but they're well hidden. You won't be troubled by my presence there in the future except sometimes I stop to take a whiz at the McDonald's near the Lake Cachuma cut-off. That's all I plan on ever leaving in S.B.
Nevermind my opinion that they ought to raise the voting age back to 21, the little punks ought to be voting in their place of residence, NOT where they’re going to school. They have no vested interest in the town they’re temporarily occupying.
YAY! Tony is the Republican. “taxin’ Jackson” was his appropriate campaign motto for Hannah Beth ‘taxin’ Jackson. :-)
Feels good in California to vote for a Republican and actually have ‘em win! :-D
What a relief. If there’s on thing Cali doesn’t need it’s another guilty rat state senator.
So, how is the House looking now?
Tony Strickland won the Ventura area district that Tom McClintock had representee.
Sadly a rat has won an undecided state assembly race in a seat they had no business being winning.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/26/democrat-claims-win-in-calif-assembly-race/
McClintock seems to have won. No official concession from the rats.
Worse than San Fran? Wow, remind me not to go to SB.
Yeah my Assembly District dammit. First time I can ever remember being represented by a rat in the Assembly. It was a bad year AND there was a Libertarian on the ballot who took something like 6%. I always say 2/3 of those vote Republican when there is no other candidate.
My condolences to you my fine Republican FRiend! Something fishy in Sacramento County with all those provisionals!!!
Santa Barbara IS NOT worse than San Francisco nor is it even close. I live here and spent a lot of time in places such as San Fran. Don’t even think about skipping SB. Come visit and decide for yourself.
Exactly. As a woman who took her own honey's name when she married him when everyone else around her was either keeping their own or hyphenating, I just do not understand the hyphen. Can ANYONE please explain. I loved taking my husband's last name and making a singe family. :-D.
I noticed the men in these relationships have seemed to have misplaced their (um, well I won't go there, but you know where I am heading.) Unless a women has a famous name or a career based on her name, I just do not get it.
Now as far as the liberals taking over the town that is correct. Sadly. I just believe it has not yet gotten AS bad as San Fran. That is all. Visit and walk the coast line. It is lovely here. San Fran. is non-stop urine streets. Pardon the bluntness, but wanted you to get a distinct picture of each before making an official decision about SB either way. There are a lot of us conservatives in the outskirts of SB.
Until the 70’s it was very unusual for a woman to keep her own name, and only upper class Brits and Spaniards hyphenated the names. As you note, only famous women or women in professions kept their maiden names for business, but most of them still used their married names in their private lives. I think the whole deal is ridiculous. But, like you, I was old fashioned and took hub’s name.
In this case, her first name was hyphenated: Hannah-Beth. That's probably something her parents gave her.
I'm really glad Tony won. The day after the election, I thought he had lost. I hope he'll help hold the line against tax increases that the Democrats in the legislature (plus the Governor) all want and which Jackson would have supported.
Very unfortunate.
Looks fishy to me.
Actually, I spend a fair amount of time in SB. My Bro-in-law lives there. The town has changed exponentially in the last ten years.
About the time Lois got elected to congress seemed to be a sharp down-turn.
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