June 2016 California Primary Analysis (II): Other Statewide State Offices
I recently got my sample ballot for the “Statewide Direct Primary Election” on June 5, and boy, is it going to be a confusing election for people. We have two contests with enough candidates to take two pages (27 candidates for Governor, 32 for Senator, and two contests for our assembly district: one for the “short term” because the previous assemblycritter left early thanks to #metoo, and one for the “full term”, with the same candidates). Then there are all the other state, county, and district contests, plus the propositions. There are going to be a lot of posts as I work through this. Here’s the sequence as I see it (I’ll edit this to add links as articles are finished):
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (I): Introduction and Gubernatorial
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (II): Other Statewide State Offices (this post)
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (III): District-Based State Offices
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (IV): US Senate and House
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (V): Judicial and County
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (VI): State Measures
- June 2016 California Primary Analysis (VII): Recap and Summary
This post will cover the other statewide California officers: Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, and Superintendent of Public Instruction. The district-based state offices — Board of Equalization and Assembly — will be covered in Part III.
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