News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
San Francisco voters have turned down the chance to rename a local sewage plant after President Bush. Voters rejected Proposition R, a lighthearted attempt to memorialize the outgoing president at the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant...Bush...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
The measure failed with 69 percent voting no and 31 percent voting yes, with 19 percent of precincts reporting. Voters also rejected Proposition 7, which would have required that half the state's electricity come from windmills, solar panels and...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
Proposition 11 was ahead, 55 percent to 45 percent, with about 10 percent of precincts tallied. The measure, championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, would create a 14-member citizens commission to draw legislative and Board of Equalization seats...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 year ago
John McCain and Barack Obama, but with a number of very tight legislative contests and battles over high-profile ballot measures of its own. That situation makes California political figures uncomfortable, because presidential dynamics will determine...