Vote for Ted Lieu - 53rd Assembly District Tues 9/13

[yorkiemommie1]

Please and Thank You !

[Oerdin]

1. Downtown district, eh?

[yorkiemommie1]

2. venice

beach cities, south bay.

[bsiebs]

3. Early returns = Ted ahead at 52% this is at 9:15PM could change

If Ted (the only democrat) gets over 50%, there is no runoff. A clean win. A big slap at the repugs in Sacramento that all fell behind a Beverly HIlls doctor named Mary Jo Ford (lives in Manhattan Beach) that got caught up in a number of lies exposed in a local fairly conservative paper (the Daily Breeze). Ted will replace another Democrat (Gordon) that tragically died in office with a brain tumor. This is a special election to replace him - the district leans democratic but is full of republicans.

[bliss_eternal]

4. Done!

:hi:

Hi, yorkiemommie!

[yorkiemommie1]

7. thankee !

went to the party last night at the marriott. saw dan walker ( our torrance mayor there ) hmmmm. rumor is that now the C Council gets to appoint another Repub to Torrance City Council. I think that would leave only one Dem. More developers to flock to Torrance?

:hi:

[Baconfoot]

5. 68.18% precincts in. Lieu at 58.39. I can't believe it.

I honestly thought we would be making Ted Lieu calls for the rest of my life.

Greg Hill Republican 1,835 5.72%
Ted W. Lieu Democratic 18,736 58.39%
James R. Smith Peace and Freedom 645 2.01%
Mary Jo Ford Republican 6,558 20.44%
Paul Nowatka Republican 3,608 11.24%
Paul Whitehead Republican 706 2.20%

PS Many voters complained that they were contacted too often in this race. However, it looks like turnout will be lucky to break 20%

[yorkiemommie1]

8. and i thought i would be

counting out flyers and stuffing envelopes and labelling for the rest of mine ! i have so many paper cuts i started putting on Neosporin beFore i started counting ! it was fun for me, a newbie, and immensely rewarding. Were you at the Marriott last night ?

i worked out of the Torrance office.

:hi:

[Baconfoot]

10. I stopped by, had a Cosmopolitan and left.

I've never been to one of those things before. It was a little... I didn't know that the purpose is mainly to exchange cards with people. I don't even have a card!

Maybe I should get a card which says "Minion at large"

[yorkiemommie1]

16. i was sitting along the wall w/ three other wallflowers

then we got a little table. i went alone since i couldn't find anyone to go w/.

it was my first such event too !

[Carla in Ca]

6. I just saw this on Hoffmania. Beginning of a trend?

As of Date: 09/13/2005 Time: 23:14 Votes Percent

MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY 53RD DIST TERM ENDS 11/06

TED W LIEU DEM 24,119 59.89
MARY JO FORD REP 7,733 19.20
PAUL NOWATKA REP 4,711 11.70
GREG HILL REP 2,040 5.07
PAUL WHITEHEAD REP 862 2.14
JAMES R SMITH PF 810 2.01

TOTAL PRECINCTS 110 PRECINCTS REPORTING 110 100.00
REGISTRATION 239,658

[yorkiemommie1]

9. that would be nice !

it was really heartening to hear all the nice things people said about Mike Gordon. I never met him at all, sad to say.

[bliss_eternal]

11. Wow--that's a pretty decent turn-out for Democracy in Torrance...

who knew?

:shrug:
seeing all the "W/Cheney" stickers in these parts (unfortunately), I wasn't at all sure which way it would go...

[Baconfoot]

12. Turnout was under 18 percent! Is that good for a race like this?

I don't have a sense of these things.

[bliss_eternal]

14. Actually, neither do I

(LOL)--the numbers just looked good to me! :hi:

[yorkiemommie1]

17. here's an interesting blog that mentions this race

some of the forecasts came really close !

i'm ready to campaign for him again next year and i've recruited two of my friends, too!

http://hacknflak.blogspot.com/

[Carla in Ca]

13. He got more votes than the

3 R candidates combined. I hope this is a sign of things to come.

[bliss_eternal]

15. Me too, Carla--

Then again, it could have something to do with the repubs in the area not really having their act together this time around. I read a couple of articles in local papers about this.

They did run, as evidenced by their final vote numbers. But I didn't see them running any ads in the area, on television, in papers--nothing. :shrug: