Five prominent Democrats are believed to be getting ready to run for Governor of California in 2018. See this story. They are Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Treasurer John Chiang, former Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin (who is now a state legislator), billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, and Antonio Villaraigosa, former Mayor of Los Angeles.
The story also mentions that two Republican mayors of big cities may run for Governor. They are the mayors of San Diego (Kevin Faulconer) and Fresno (Ashley Swearengin). If all seven entered the race, it is not implausible that the two Republicans would place first and second, because the Democratic vote would be split up five ways.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has several times disclaimed any intent or interest in seeking the office of Governor. Of course, a lot can change in almost 2 years.
The republican party should organize and have half of the counties in the state vote for one candidate and the other half the other. Then divide and conquer!
The GOP pulled the surprise for the Washington State Treasurer race. They could certainly do that here. It would be more of a regional game of course with Faulconer taking most of Southern Cal GOP votes while Sweargin taking most from the North. Both are Moderate R’s with Sweargin being slightly more conservative so the ideology game plays in as well.
Not out of the question since it almost happened to the State Controller office in 2014.
Faulconer and Swearengin have already declined to run. The only prominent Republican to file so far has been Allen Ishida, a county supervisor from Tulare County.
I did a poll on the Governor’s race, and the top three finishers were Newsom, Chiang, and LA mayor Eric Garcetti.
It would be fun to watch top-two come back and bite the Democrats on the ass. I love karma!
Thanks to opponents of Top Two, approved by a majority of California voters, a small step forward for voting system reform has been implemented.
Are you interested in equal treatment for all and lower guaranteed thresholds for all parties and independents?
Only pure proportional representation can guarantee equal treatment and fair voting systems.
The 10th USA Parliament has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-one years despite the opposition for divisive pluralists, self proclaimed experts, single-winner poqer grabbing egorists, cesorets and well intentioned do-gooder pluralists and pure proportional representation works just fine.
Nobody has it as good as the USA Parliament!
http://www.usparliament.org
Should have been;
Thanks to Top Two, approved by a majority of California voters, a small step forward for voting system reform has been implemented.
Are you interested in equal treatment for all and lower guaranteed thresholds for all parties and independents?
Only pure proportional representation (PR) can guarantee equal treatment and fair voting systems.
The 10th USA Parliament has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-one years despite the opposition from divisive pluralists, self proclaimed experts, single-winner power grabbing egotists, censorers and well intentioned do-gooder pluralists.
Pure proportional representation works just fine.
Nobody has it as good as the USA Parliament!
http://www.usparliament.org
Prop. 14 was not approved by a majority of California voters. At the June 2010 election, Proposition 14 received 2,868,945 “yes” votes, but there were 16,977,031 registered voters at that time.
It wouldn’t have passed, except that it was on the ballot as “Increases voter participation in primaries.”
Is Richard Winger advocating for a quorum requirement for referendum?
Nonpartisan App.V. for all elected executive officers and all judges — even the SCOTUS gang of 8/9 —
—pending Condorcet Head to Head math — with perhaps an App.V. YES/NO tiebreaker.
@Chris Cole: Top two primary was put on the ballot by the republicans. Democrats actively campaigned against it.
I was predicting this scenario exactly when Prop 14 was on the ballot. At this point I’m hoping this plays out exactly as described since that would be the best chance of getting people fired up against top 2.
Keep the focus on pure proportional representation. That is the only fair voting system.
Top Two is a two-member election (not winner-takes-all primary districts like before top two).
Top Two has a guaranteed maximum threshold of 33.33% plus one vote identical to pure proportional representation.
The 10th USA Parliament has been demonstrating pure proportional representation for more than 21 consecutive years and inspiring many.
Pure proportional representation is the only voting system worth writing about.
Nobody has it as good as the United Coalition.
http://www.usparliament.org
Now there is an International Parliament consisting of team players, inclusion and collaborators from all parties and independents:
http://www.international-parliament.org
People from all over the world like the advanced voting system of pure proportional representation as THE praceful decision-making alternative to force and violence.
The California Republican Party has gone into such a decline, I doubt that they will get the advantage in this race. I suspect that either many of the Democratic candidates will drop out, or more Republicans will enter the race.
I wish Missouri had a primary system like California.Is it possible the California Libertarian party try to recruit a well known person like a celebrity or talk show host to run for Governor on the ticket.To bad William weld doesn’t live in California.He could run.John Larroquette who played Dan Fielding on Night Court should run for Governor on the Libertarian party ticket for Governor.See what the media and tabloids reaction would be if he ran.