Elections

County Assessor’s race: Brooks to make run official

Promising that “bombshells will be dropped,” at a press conference schedule for this evening in Concord, Contra Costa County Assessor candidate Bob Brooks told the Gazette yesterday he has big news regarding his opponent Gus Kramer.

Brooks and Kramer, now joined by two other candidates, will appear on the June 8 direct primary election ballot. If one wins 50 percent plus one vote, he wins outright. If the votes are more mixed, the top two vote-winners will vie in a run-off in the November general election.more...

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Campaign for County Assessor heating up

Brooks set to challenge Kramer in 2010

Last week, when the Gazette reported on the candidacy of Gus Kramer and Earl “Bob” Brooks for Contra Costa County Assessor in the 2010 election, it served as a figurative starting gun shot for the race to begin, as Brooks has yet to officially declare his intent to run. more...

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DeSaulnier endorsed by George Miller, Torlakson, Tauscher

Recently-elected Democrat State Senator is running for U.S. Congress in Sept. 1 special election.

Mark DeSaulnier, Martinez’s representative to the California State Senate (elected in the 2008 General Election), is running for U.S. Congress in a Sept. 1 special election. The 10th Congressional District vacancy was created in March, when Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D) was appointed by President Obama as the new Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.

The 10th Congressional district encompasses parts of Contra Costa, Solano and Alameda counties, including Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Antioch, Livermore, Dixon and El Cerrito.more...

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Budget dominates May elections

Just as neither of California’s two leading political parties were completely satisfied with the painstakingly composed state budget for the current fiscal year, no sharp political line could be drawn between supporters and opponents of the six ballot measures on whose success the budget’s fragile balance depends.more...

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State budget on May election ballot

This week, those who served as election clerks and inspectors for the November election received letters from the Contra Costa County Elections Division requesting their services once again in May.

The state legislature has called a special election on May 19, and California voters will decide on seven ballot propositions. more...

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Governor wants a special election to let voters resolve state budget crisis

If California’s Governor and Legislature follow the advice of the state’s non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), there could be a statewide special election as early as April to allow voters to weigh in on the budgetary disaster.more...

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