Opinion: Ten Southern California politicians who lost big this election
San Bernardino Mayor John Valdivia has been booted from office after just one term as mayor. He is currently trailing challengers Helen Tran and James Penman with just 16.94% of the vote. It’s a well-earned repudiation by the voters of San Bernardino, who really do deserve better.
Accordingly, like many Orange County Republicans with unmerited ambition, he thought it was time for a move up and so he threw his hat in the ring for state treasurer. This set up the possibility of a confrontation between Andrew Do and Treasurer Fiona Ma over who loves police unions more and who the police unions love more.
It made perfect sense for him to run for California controller and I don’t think anyone could argue he wouldn’t be an improvement over current Controller Betty Yee, who is best known for her involvement in a failed, sketchy no-bid mask contract. On Yee’s watch, California is also the only state that doesn’t share, line-by-line, government expenditures with the public.
Hagman, with 57.82% of the vote as of this writing, is likely to avoid a run-off thanks to the poor performance of Leyva and Larry Wu .Leyva has backed lots of awful legislation in her time, from supporting Assembly Bill 5 to nanny-state bills like those banning plastic straws, and has supported giveaways to the prison guards union. Leyva was also an early supporter of the rejected split roll proposal, which would have gutted Proposition 13 and raised taxes on businesses.
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