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The 2010 California gubernatorial election was held November 2, 2010, to elect the governor of California. The primary elections were held on June 8, 2010. Because constitutional office holders in California have been prohibited from serving more than two terms in the same office since November 6, 1990, incumbent Republican Arnold ...
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- Democratic
- Jerry Brown
- 53.8%
- Inauguration and Transition
- Polling
- Candidates
- Campaign Finance
- Issues and Positions in The Race
- Incidents in The Race
- Debates
- Campaign Advertisements
- Political Landscape
- See Also
Inaugural date
California's Constitution requires a newly elected governor to take office the first Monday after the New Year. For Governor-elect Jerry Brown, this means the Inaugural occurred on January 3, 2011.
Transition team
Deliberately contrasting himself with outgoing Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 2003 transition team had a staff of 67, Brown was very public about the small, and mostly unpaid, group coordinating his own transition.Of $890,000 set aside to pay for the transition, Brown has promised to use only a fraction. Serving as transition coordinator was Chief Deputy District Attorney General Jim Humes. In his first month as Governor of California, Jerry Browngave the State of the State...
Primary election polling
Polling showed Meg Whitmanto be favored in the Republican Primary early on.
American Independent
1. Business owner Chelene Nightingale 2. Markham Robinson, also a business owner
Democratic
1. Businessman Richard William Aquirre 2. Edmund G. Jerry Brown, the sitting Attorney General of California going into 2010 3. Lowell Darling, an artist 4. Vibert Greene, a mechanical engineer and CEO 5. Charles 'Chuck' Pineda, Jr., a parole board judge for the state 6. Peter Schruman, a consultant to nonprofits 7. Joe Symon, president of a nonprofit Withdrawn Democratic candidates 1. Gavin Newsom announced on October 30, 2009 that he was withdrawing from the race.He later ran for an won the...
Green
1. Financial consultant Laura Wells 2. S. Deacon Alexander, a student
The California Secretary of State makes PDFs of all reports and addenda for candidates available free and online at their "Cal-Access" site. Candidates for 2010 are searchable using the "Candidates and Elected Officials Portal" Additionally, information on campaign finance disclosures is broken down into several useful metrics on "Follow the Money....
Suspension of AB 32
1. 1.1. See also: California Jobs Initiative, the Suspension of AB 32 (2010) A ballot proposition to suspend AB 32until the unemployment rate in California falls below 5.5% for four quarters in a row became an issue in the gubernatorial contest. 1. Meg Whitmansaid that she would act to freeze AB 32 for a year or more. 2. Jerry Brownsaid that he would support "adjusting" some features of AB 32 but that he generally supports it and would not suspend it.
The Budget
California's fiscal crisis, which reduced the state to "paying" employees in IOUs and flirting with bankruptcy, made budget management a white hot topic on the campaign trail. Jerry brow rolled out an eight-page plan to start California's annual budget from scratch if elected.Called "zero based budgeting," the proposal addressed cost overruns by requiring government agencies to submit a budget that does not assume anything will be funded just because it's already in place. Essentially, every...
"Global Warming"
Speaking to the editorial board of the Mercury Newson September 21st, Meg Whitman discussed a center-right approach to governance and specifically said that, as governor, she would "probably" veto a global warming law.
"Fresno looks like Detroit" In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Meg Whitman committed a slip of the tongue when discussing the impact of high unemployment and economic stagnation on the city of Fresno. "Fresno looks like Detroit. It's awful," the candidate said, in an off-the-cuff remark that drew instantaneous apologies, explanations, ...
Whitman and Brown scheduled three televised debates, with the first round set for September 28, 2010. The debates represented an opportunity for both candidates to demonstrate their empathy to voters, nearly a fifth of whom estill undecided before the first debate, and most of whom perceived both candidates negatively - the dividend of months of ad...
California Working Families
Knowing the rest of the nation was watching, California certainly putting on a captivating show as Republican Meg Whitman and Democratic Jerry Brown vied for votes. No sooner had Whitman sealed the GOP nomination than unions and labor groups began sponsoring ads against her candidacy. Several groups formed a coalition called California Working Families for Jerry Brown, a group which was the source of many of Whitman's headaches. CWF's spots targeted spending and taxation proposals in Whitman'...
Autumn campaign ads
Just after Labor Day, Jerry Brown's campaign rolled out its first ad, a 30-second TV spot that began playing state-wide on September 7, 2010. Estimated to cost the Brown campaign $1.2 million per week, the spot touted Brown's track record and acumen in cutting costs and balancing budgets
Bill Clinton and Pinocchio
If Californian elections didn't already command national scrutiny, Whitman and Brown would have been getting attention anyway. Meg Whitman's first volley harkened back to 1992, when Jerry Brown was running for the Presidency. In an interview with C-SPAN, Bill Clinton criticized Brown's record and quoted a CNN report to back up his charges. The footage, showing Clinton arguing that Brown's record on fiscal management and taxation were lacking, made up the core of Whitman's ad. More recently, C...
In 2010, both United States Senators from California were Democrats. California's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives was made up of 34 Democrats and 19 Republicans. Both the State House and State Senate were controlled by Democratic majorities. The current Governor at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was a Republican. Recent Presidenti...
2010 California gubernatorial election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Jerry Brown: 5,417,731 : 53.8 : Republican: Meg Whitman: 4,120,020 40.9 American Independent: Chelene Nightingale 165,928 1.7 Libertarian: Dale Ogden: 150,547 1.5 Green: Laura Wells: 128,419 1.3 Peace and Freedom: Carlos Alvarez 92,637 0.9 Libertarian: Cassandra ...
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Nov 2, 2010 · The November 2, 2010 election in California elected a new Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and other statewide officers. Voters also elected state senators and members of the California Assembly .
Detailed state-level election results in the state of California for the 2010 Gubernatorial General Election.
Governor. House Districts. Democrat. Jerry Brown. Campaign Site. Twitter. Republican. Meg Whitman. Campaign Site. Twitter. New York Times Race Rating. Leaning Democratic. FiveThirtyEight Model....
The 2010 California gubernatorial election was held November 2, 2010 to elect the Governor of California. The primary elections were held on June 8, 2010.
