Posted on 05/23/2013 5:23:49 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Edited on 05/23/2013 5:32:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
State Sen-elect Andy Vidak was one of the Republican victims of CA Democrat voter fraud in 2010 while running against Rep. Jim Costa.
unfortunately California’s most recent redistricting and the vote to have nonpartisan primaries there is NO HOPE that California will ever change directions. It is a giant sink hole slipping into nearby Mexico
I didn’t know there were any republicans in California
“I didn’t know there were any republicans in California”
You need to check out where Free Republic is located.
Calif is done.
Every little bit counts!
Cool, a new member of the CALGOP country club. He can draw a paycheck and be just as irrelevant as the rest of them.
Consider the owner of this site, which is in Fresno, CA.
Good for Andy. I hope he can at least draw attention to the CA Senate’s socialism and debauchery.
As you may recall, I quipped after the 2010 elections that Andy Vidak would have been elected to Congress had his last name ended in an L instead of a K; Vidal is a relatively common surname in Spain and Latin America, and in that Hispanic-majority district that could have given him that extra 4% he needed to beat Democrat Jim Costa (whose surname is Portuguese, not Spanish).
BTW, did you read this liberal claptrap from the posted article?
“Democrats have a large registration edge in the 16th Senate District—51 percent to Republicans’ 31 percent—but three Democratic candidates and a Peace and Freedom Party candidate split the left-leaning vote. That cleared the way for Vidak to win a simple majority.”
Vidak won with 52% of the vote. How the heck did having four leftist opponents running make it easier for him to obtain over 50% of the vote? Having a bunch of liberal candidates running only helps the conservative candidate if he can be elected by a plurality, but it makes it harder to get a majority (every additional voter who comes out to support one of the additional leftists will add a vote to the denominator and increase the hurdle for the conservative).
...with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff. The special election victory by Hanford cherry farmer Andy Vidak will have no practical effect on the state Senate, where Democrats retain a supermajority, but serves as a psychological boost for the party after massive GOP losses in recent election cycles.
Looks like he is again. I just met with a allow from Airfield and he tells me Vidak lost.
I guess all the ghost”Absentee” and he”Provisional” ballots came in and they were overwhelmingly for Perez.
WTF???
Tell me that isn’t voter fraud.
This chick concedes the race and then gets 5 loaves of bread and a couple
of fish???
So WTF just happened?
I just learned from a prominent family that he lost.
Apparently they were still counting the votes, and one has to get to 50% in order to win. Vidak may or may not get that, but he still is in the lead. If he gets just below 50%, he and the distant 2nd place finisher will go to a July runoff. I do not expect him to lose. The second place finisher is embarrassingly out of touch with the district, and even in outspending Vidak, couldn’t buy her the seat.
Okay. So after they count the votes a couple three times we are at least going to runoff?
What’s up with that? She already conceded and then Al Gore on us?
If he gets 50%, he wins. If he gets 49.99999%, he goes to a runoff. He hasn’t lost yet. A “concession” as such isn’t legally binding. It merely appeared on election night on the face of returns, he was at 52% (in which case there was no way for her to overcome — and this being a multi-candidate race, she was not the only Dem in the race). At the moment, Vidak appears to be at 49.83%. Perez is at 43.84%.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=785607
Hmmm... That’s 6 points between em.
Pretty good considering a 58% Latino to 25% white and whatever the rest of the make up is.
I can’t recall the registered voter. To turnout ratio but I was shocked at how low the % ratio of registereds to eligible is.
If this runoffs after next week we just gotta get the registereds motivated to pencil in one more time.
Another wonderful article says Vidak needs “51%” to win
Idiots. Major buzzkill though it he ends up under 50% plus 1.
Absentees in Cali always screw us.
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