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He also talks about the effort to reverse California’s ban on affirmative action and compares the state’s current budget crisis to the shortfall during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11825294/john-perez-on-a-historic-week-at-the-supreme-court-and-the-push-to-bring-back-affirmative-action-in-california","authors":["3239","255"],"programs":["news_33544"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_1052","news_22235"],"featImg":"news_11825299","label":"source_news_11825294"},"news_144208":{"type":"posts","id":"news_144208","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"144208","score":null,"sort":[1407481281000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-consider-automatic-recounts-in-california-elections","title":"Lawmakers Consider Automatic Recounts in California Elections","publishDate":1407481281,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45928\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45928\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To hear Kevin Mullin tell it, this summer's saga in the race for state controller was the first time even he -- a sitting assemblymember -- realized just how antiquated and unfair California election law is when it comes to recounting votes in razor-thin races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That really opened my eyes to how undemocratic our process is and how potentially chaotic,\" said Mullin (D-South San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday Mullin introduced legislation to create a process for an automatic statewide recount in California -- something other states have, and something supporters say will make clear just how and when to tally votes a second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question,\" Mullin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162281078&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullin's newly amended \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2194_bill_20140806_status.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 2194\u003c/a> would require an automatic recount of all ballots in a statewide race -- including ballot measures -- if the gap between winning and losing sides is less than one-tenth of one percent of the votes that each side received. In a June primary election, the automatic recount would apply to candidates who appear to have placed second and third ... the third place vote-getter, of course, being the one who misses making the fall ballot under California's top-two primary system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had AB 2194 been in effect this year, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">the margin between Betty Yee and John Pérez\u003c/a> of 481 votes would have easily triggered an automatic recount, as would have happened for any gap smaller than 1,756 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-thresholds.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures shows that 20 states plus the District of Columbia have some sort of automatic recount standard\u003c/a>. But the threshold for a recount varies. Many base it on votes cast, while some like Michigan set a hard standard of races where the margin of victory is 2,000 votes or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question.\" -- Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (D-South San Francisco) \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>(Almost all states, as the data shows, allow a losing candidate or concerned voters to request -- and pay for -- a recount of votes. That's the existing standard in California, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In multicandidate elections, the standard set in Mullin's new legislation likely means a pretty narrow gap. But in a race where there are only two candidates -- which is the system California now uses for general elections -- and in ballot measure races, the gap could actually be much larger and still trigger an automatic recount. That's because only two choices -- two candidates or \"yes\" and \"no\" in propositions -- split all the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 2012 election had 13.2 million voters,\" said Karen Rhea, chief deputy registrar of voters for Kern County, looking back at California's election two years ago. \"So that would have been [under the proposed legislation] 13,200 votes that would have triggered a recount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And would enough votes really have been incorrectly counted for a gap of that size to disappear? Consider this: When Rhea and her Kern County colleagues recounted votes in the controller's race \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/06/recount-begins-of-votes-for-state-controller/\" target=\"_blank\">as part of a formal request filed by Pérez last month\u003c/a>, they tallied almost 38,000 ballots a second time. The totals changed by only two votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others with gaps that look small in percentage but large in raw numbers, have also come up short. Backers of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/proposition-29-california-tobacco-tax-backers-seek-recount-after-razor-thin-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 2012 tobacco tax initiative requested a recount\u003c/a>, and then stopped it, after election results showed their proposal losing by about 29,000 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important,that the [automatic recount] thresholds that are put in place acknowledge that we do a pretty good job counting ballots,\" Rhea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recounting ballots are especially tricky when it comes to the calendar. June's recount in the controller's race was on track to bleed deep into the general election calendar when Pérez pulled the plug. A recount in November could, depending on how it's done and whether warring sides mounted legal challenges, could come close to the time a candidate is actually scheduled to assume the office he or she thinks they've won. Observers point back to \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000\" target=\"_blank\">the historic presidential cliffhanger in 2000, which didn't end until the middle of December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recounts also cost money. Mullin says a statewide recount under his proposal could cost $1.9 million, a cost the bill says -- but does not mandate -- should be borne by the state, not individual counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question,\" Mullin said. \"In terms of voter confidence, there is a rationale for the taxpayers -- the state government -- intervening and saying, 'We will pay for a statewide, state-funded recount.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the Legislature can tackle in its final month the complicated questions that underlie the pretty simple premise of a recount remains to be seen. Elections officials in some counties have suggested the issue be considered in detail in 2015 and that lawmakers not rush to change the state's recount law in these final few weeks of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullin's reaction: Even incremental changes that have to be added to in 2015 are better than the existing system if November produces some kind of electoral cliffhanger. As such, his bill has an urgency clause -- which requires a supermajority vote in each house -- so that it may take effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t want to defer action, because the only urgency, at that point, is the 2018 statewide election cycle,\" Mullin said. \"I don't want to wait that long.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Does California need a law requiring an automatic recount in close statewide elections?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1407515633,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":913},"headData":{"title":"Lawmakers Consider Automatic Recounts in California Elections | KQED","description":"Does California need a law requiring an automatic recount in close statewide elections?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"144208 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=144208","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/08/lawmakers-consider-automatic-recounts-in-california-elections/","disqusTitle":"Lawmakers Consider Automatic Recounts in California Elections","path":"/news/144208/lawmakers-consider-automatic-recounts-in-california-elections","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45928\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-45928\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To hear Kevin Mullin tell it, this summer's saga in the race for state controller was the first time even he -- a sitting assemblymember -- realized just how antiquated and unfair California election law is when it comes to recounting votes in razor-thin races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That really opened my eyes to how undemocratic our process is and how potentially chaotic,\" said Mullin (D-South San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday Mullin introduced legislation to create a process for an automatic statewide recount in California -- something other states have, and something supporters say will make clear just how and when to tally votes a second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question,\" Mullin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162281078&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullin's newly amended \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2194_bill_20140806_status.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 2194\u003c/a> would require an automatic recount of all ballots in a statewide race -- including ballot measures -- if the gap between winning and losing sides is less than one-tenth of one percent of the votes that each side received. In a June primary election, the automatic recount would apply to candidates who appear to have placed second and third ... the third place vote-getter, of course, being the one who misses making the fall ballot under California's top-two primary system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had AB 2194 been in effect this year, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">the margin between Betty Yee and John Pérez\u003c/a> of 481 votes would have easily triggered an automatic recount, as would have happened for any gap smaller than 1,756 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-thresholds.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures shows that 20 states plus the District of Columbia have some sort of automatic recount standard\u003c/a>. But the threshold for a recount varies. Many base it on votes cast, while some like Michigan set a hard standard of races where the margin of victory is 2,000 votes or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question.\" -- Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (D-South San Francisco) \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>(Almost all states, as the data shows, allow a losing candidate or concerned voters to request -- and pay for -- a recount of votes. That's the existing standard in California, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In multicandidate elections, the standard set in Mullin's new legislation likely means a pretty narrow gap. But in a race where there are only two candidates -- which is the system California now uses for general elections -- and in ballot measure races, the gap could actually be much larger and still trigger an automatic recount. That's because only two choices -- two candidates or \"yes\" and \"no\" in propositions -- split all the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 2012 election had 13.2 million voters,\" said Karen Rhea, chief deputy registrar of voters for Kern County, looking back at California's election two years ago. \"So that would have been [under the proposed legislation] 13,200 votes that would have triggered a recount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And would enough votes really have been incorrectly counted for a gap of that size to disappear? Consider this: When Rhea and her Kern County colleagues recounted votes in the controller's race \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/06/recount-begins-of-votes-for-state-controller/\" target=\"_blank\">as part of a formal request filed by Pérez last month\u003c/a>, they tallied almost 38,000 ballots a second time. The totals changed by only two votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others with gaps that look small in percentage but large in raw numbers, have also come up short. Backers of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/proposition-29-california-tobacco-tax-backers-seek-recount-after-razor-thin-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 2012 tobacco tax initiative requested a recount\u003c/a>, and then stopped it, after election results showed their proposal losing by about 29,000 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important,that the [automatic recount] thresholds that are put in place acknowledge that we do a pretty good job counting ballots,\" Rhea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recounting ballots are especially tricky when it comes to the calendar. June's recount in the controller's race was on track to bleed deep into the general election calendar when Pérez pulled the plug. A recount in November could, depending on how it's done and whether warring sides mounted legal challenges, could come close to the time a candidate is actually scheduled to assume the office he or she thinks they've won. Observers point back to \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000\" target=\"_blank\">the historic presidential cliffhanger in 2000, which didn't end until the middle of December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recounts also cost money. Mullin says a statewide recount under his proposal could cost $1.9 million, a cost the bill says -- but does not mandate -- should be borne by the state, not individual counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It strikes me as a fundamental fairness question,\" Mullin said. \"In terms of voter confidence, there is a rationale for the taxpayers -- the state government -- intervening and saying, 'We will pay for a statewide, state-funded recount.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the Legislature can tackle in its final month the complicated questions that underlie the pretty simple premise of a recount remains to be seen. Elections officials in some counties have suggested the issue be considered in detail in 2015 and that lawmakers not rush to change the state's recount law in these final few weeks of the legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullin's reaction: Even incremental changes that have to be added to in 2015 are better than the existing system if November produces some kind of electoral cliffhanger. As such, his bill has an urgency clause -- which requires a supermajority vote in each house -- so that it may take effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t want to defer action, because the only urgency, at that point, is the 2018 statewide election cycle,\" Mullin said. \"I don't want to wait that long.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/144208/lawmakers-consider-automatic-recounts-in-california-elections","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6390","news_6310","news_1052","news_6747"],"featImg":"news_45928","label":"news_6944"},"news_142254":{"type":"posts","id":"news_142254","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"142254","score":null,"sort":[1405726209000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee","title":"Pérez Ends Recount; Concedes Controller's Race To Yee","publishDate":1405726209,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142252\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS4843_johnperez130509-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Former Assembly Speaker John Perez (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Assembly Speaker John Perez (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the closest statewide elections in California history is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly Speaker John \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> is conceding the second spot on the state controller ballot in November to Board of Equalization member Betty Yee, ending a 15-county recount effort after just one week of counting votes. Yee finished last month's primary election fewer than 500 votes ahead of Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/state-controller-recount-continues/\">picked up only a handful of votes\u003c/a> in Kern and Imperial counties. San Bernardino County had been scheduled to begin counting votes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> said, “There is simply not enough time to see this process through to the end, given the fact that counties must begin printing ballots in the next few weeks in order to ensure that overseas and military voters can receive their ballots in a timely manner.” A survey conducted by the Secretary of State's office \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/14/6555904/full-recount-could-last-beyond.html\">had found a full recount could have taken until early 2015 to complete\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Democrat insisted, however, that despite his single-digit gains, he “strongly believe(d)” he would have prevailed over Yee if all 15 counties had completed their recounts. Yee ignored that assertion, issuing a statement thanking \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> for, \"Doing the right thing in recognizing that the recount was unlikely to reverse the outcome of the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/15/6555863/viewpoints-perez-should-pull-plug.html\">California Democrats had been pressuring P\u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">é\u003c/span>rez to end his bid\u003c/a>. In fact, the state party donated $50,000 to Yee’s campaign earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee will face Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin in November. Swearengin is viewed as a rising GOP star, and the party's best chance to wrest a statewide office from Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"John Pérez is calling off a 15-county recount and conceding the state controller's race to Betty Yee.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1413320546,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":309},"headData":{"title":"Pérez Ends Recount; Concedes Controller's Race To Yee | KQED","description":"John Pérez is calling off a 15-county recount and conceding the state controller's race to Betty Yee.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"142254 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=142254","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee/","disqusTitle":"Pérez Ends Recount; Concedes Controller's Race To Yee","path":"/news/142254/perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142252\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS4843_johnperez130509-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Former Assembly Speaker John Perez (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Assembly Speaker John Perez (Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the closest statewide elections in California history is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly Speaker John \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> is conceding the second spot on the state controller ballot in November to Board of Equalization member Betty Yee, ending a 15-county recount effort after just one week of counting votes. Yee finished last month's primary election fewer than 500 votes ahead of Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/state-controller-recount-continues/\">picked up only a handful of votes\u003c/a> in Kern and Imperial counties. San Bernardino County had been scheduled to begin counting votes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> said, “There is simply not enough time to see this process through to the end, given the fact that counties must begin printing ballots in the next few weeks in order to ensure that overseas and military voters can receive their ballots in a timely manner.” A survey conducted by the Secretary of State's office \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/14/6555904/full-recount-could-last-beyond.html\">had found a full recount could have taken until early 2015 to complete\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Democrat insisted, however, that despite his single-digit gains, he “strongly believe(d)” he would have prevailed over Yee if all 15 counties had completed their recounts. Yee ignored that assertion, issuing a statement thanking \u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Pérez\u003c/span> for, \"Doing the right thing in recognizing that the recount was unlikely to reverse the outcome of the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/15/6555863/viewpoints-perez-should-pull-plug.html\">California Democrats had been pressuring P\u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">é\u003c/span>rez to end his bid\u003c/a>. In fact, the state party donated $50,000 to Yee’s campaign earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee will face Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin in November. Swearengin is viewed as a rising GOP star, and the party's best chance to wrest a statewide office from Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/142254/perez-ends-recall-concedes-controllers-race-to-yee","authors":["256"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_1052"],"featImg":"news_142252","label":"news_6944"},"news_142151":{"type":"posts","id":"news_142151","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"142151","score":null,"sort":[1405697456000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"recount-in-state-controllers-race-headed-to-second-week","title":"Recount in State Controller's Race Headed to Second Week","publishDate":1405697456,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128760\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS3925_votedhands20121102.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-128760 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS3925_votedhands20121102.jpg\" alt=\"(Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The historic recount of votes cast in the race for state controller will enter its second week on Monday, with the candidate who's asking for a second look still moving forward with the process — and refusing calls by some of his fellow Democrats to call it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elections officials in San Bernardino County agreed on Thursday to take a second look at votes in the race, as requested by former Assembly Speaker John Pérez. It will be the third county whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recount/state-controller-recount.htm\" target=\"_blank\">votes have been retabulated\u003c/a> as Pérez seeks to make up the June 3 election gap of 481 votes with fellow Democrat Betty Yee, a member of the state Board of Equalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, unless the certified results are overturned, will face Republican Ashley Swearengin, the mayor of Fresno, on Nov. 4. Pérez has asked for as many as 15 counties to recount their votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This is a legitimate and historic recount. We should continue it.'\u003ccite>— Doug Herman,\u003cbr>\nPérez campaign consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We'd like to speed this thing up,\" said Doug Herman, campaign consultant to Pérez on Thursday evening. That may include a recount by machine, rather than continuing the tally by hand, of the remaining votes in Kern County — one of the first two counties that Pérez asked to take another look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the count so far has not discovered the votes Pérez needs to change the expected outcome. Parke Skelton, the campaign consultant for Betty Yee, sends emails to reporters daily with a running tally. He estimates that Pérez has, at best, picked up just two or three votes through almost the first full week of the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite his spectacular lack of success in Imperial and Kern counties,\" wrote Skelton Thursday in an email to reporters, \"John Pérez has decided to move the traveling recall [sic] show into San Bernardino County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/15/6555863/viewpoints-perez-should-pull-plug.html\" target=\"_blank\">under pressure by some Democrats to end the recount process\u003c/a>, but his political advisers say that it's reasonable to make sure the votes are counted as they've been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a legitimate and historic recount,\" said Herman in a phone interview. \"We should continue it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Review of ballots cast will enter its second week with very little change from June 3 election results.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1413320569,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":386},"headData":{"title":"Recount in State Controller's Race Headed to Second Week | KQED","description":"Review of ballots cast will enter its second week with very little change from June 3 election results.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"142151 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=142151","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/18/recount-in-state-controllers-race-headed-to-second-week/","disqusTitle":"Recount in State Controller's Race Headed to Second Week","customPermalink":"2014/07/18/state-controller-recount-continues/","path":"/news/142151/recount-in-state-controllers-race-headed-to-second-week","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128760\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS3925_votedhands20121102.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-128760 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS3925_votedhands20121102.jpg\" alt=\"(Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The historic recount of votes cast in the race for state controller will enter its second week on Monday, with the candidate who's asking for a second look still moving forward with the process — and refusing calls by some of his fellow Democrats to call it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elections officials in San Bernardino County agreed on Thursday to take a second look at votes in the race, as requested by former Assembly Speaker John Pérez. It will be the third county whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recount/state-controller-recount.htm\" target=\"_blank\">votes have been retabulated\u003c/a> as Pérez seeks to make up the June 3 election gap of 481 votes with fellow Democrat Betty Yee, a member of the state Board of Equalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, unless the certified results are overturned, will face Republican Ashley Swearengin, the mayor of Fresno, on Nov. 4. Pérez has asked for as many as 15 counties to recount their votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This is a legitimate and historic recount. We should continue it.'\u003ccite>— Doug Herman,\u003cbr>\nPérez campaign consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We'd like to speed this thing up,\" said Doug Herman, campaign consultant to Pérez on Thursday evening. That may include a recount by machine, rather than continuing the tally by hand, of the remaining votes in Kern County — one of the first two counties that Pérez asked to take another look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the count so far has not discovered the votes Pérez needs to change the expected outcome. Parke Skelton, the campaign consultant for Betty Yee, sends emails to reporters daily with a running tally. He estimates that Pérez has, at best, picked up just two or three votes through almost the first full week of the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite his spectacular lack of success in Imperial and Kern counties,\" wrote Skelton Thursday in an email to reporters, \"John Pérez has decided to move the traveling recall [sic] show into San Bernardino County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/15/6555863/viewpoints-perez-should-pull-plug.html\" target=\"_blank\">under pressure by some Democrats to end the recount process\u003c/a>, but his political advisers say that it's reasonable to make sure the votes are counted as they've been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a legitimate and historic recount,\" said Herman in a phone interview. \"We should continue it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/142151/recount-in-state-controllers-race-headed-to-second-week","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_6390","news_1052","news_4969"],"featImg":"news_128760","label":"news_6944"},"news_141200":{"type":"posts","id":"news_141200","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"141200","score":null,"sort":[1404681685000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"recount-of-votes-will-begin-monday-in-controllers-race","title":"Pérez Launching Recount in State Controller's Race","publishDate":1404681685,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (Max Whittaker/Prime) \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (Max Whittaker/Prime)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get ready for even more political drama in the closest statewide election in modern California history: a recount of votes cast for state controller that could cost as much as $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles) has decided to request, and pay for, a recount of votes in as many as 15 California counties — an effort to see whether he came in third on June 3 behind fellow Democrat Betty Yee ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in California history has the vote difference between two candidates for statewide office been so narrow,” said Pérez in a written statement on Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is therefore of the utmost importance that an additional, carefully conducted review of the ballots be undertaken to ensure that every vote is counted, as intended.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/30/Yee-Squeaks-Past-Perez-for-controller\" target=\"_blank\">missed the second and final spot on the fall ballot by 481 votes in the last tallies reported less than a week ago\u003c/a>. If those numbers hold, Yee will face Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno, on Nov. 4. Swearengin won more than 1 million votes in \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">the last count of ballots\u003c/a>, more than any candidate in the race to be California's next chief fiscal officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s decision means that beginning on Monday, local elections officials will take another look at ballots in Kern; Imperial; San Bernardino; Fresno; San Mateo; Orange; Ventura; Los Angeles; Riverside; Stanislaus; Tulare; Napa; Kings; Lake; and Merced counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/232803584/John-Perez-Asks-for-Recount\" target=\"_blank\">Read the formal recount letter sent to Secretary of State Debra Bowen by John Pérez on Sunday.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parke Skelton, the top campaign consultant to Betty Yee, called the decision by Pérez one that could drag the process out for months — suggesting Yee may also ask for a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No recount is going to be fair that doesn't include more counties,\" said Skelton by phone Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other states, there's no automatic recount provision in California law. Any member of the public, including a candidate, can request a recount within five days of the final canvass of votes, provided he or she pay for it. The decision by Pérez comes right at the final deadline for a request, with Secretary of State Debra Bowen poised to formally certify the state’s June primary results in a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s recount provisions are relatively loose, in that the choice of which votes to tally a second time are chosen by the person who’s paying — individual precincts to entire counties are all subject to recount if someone has the money and inclination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign adviser to Pérez says the 481-vote gap between the two prominent Democrats is within the “statistical margin of error” for the machines that tally paper ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, recounts can be a costly process that produce few — if any — additional votes. On June 25, just hours after it began, a GOP congressional candidate in the Inland Empire \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/06/26/44981/gooch-calls-off-recount-in-inland-empire-congressi/\" target=\"_blank\">called off a recount in a squeaker of a race\u003c/a> -- a recount that produced only a single extra vote in her column, for a cost that exceeded $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter Pérez submitted Sunday afternoon makes clear that the requested recount will go in a specific order, a likely hint that the second tally of votes can stop at any time Pérez wants. It's beginning in places where his vote tally was decidedly higher than that of Yee. A campaign consultant says the cost of the recount will depend on whether votes are re-examined with machines or by hand. The campaign also seeks to take a second look at some vote-by-mail ballots that were disqualified, to see if any of those should be added to the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all of this also exposes one of the quirks of California election law: Other candidates can then begin a recount, too, if they all of a sudden should find themselves knocked out of contention. No effort has materialized at the state Capitol \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/07/a-california-law-on-the.html\" target=\"_blank\">to resume efforts at a tighter set of rules for recounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Former Assembly speaker to pay as much as $3 million to see if he can reverse a narrow loss in primary.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1413320586,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":716},"headData":{"title":"Pérez Launching Recount in State Controller's Race | KQED","description":"Get ready for even more political drama in the closest statewide election in modern California history...","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"141200 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=141200","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/06/recount-of-votes-will-begin-monday-in-controllers-race/","disqusTitle":"Pérez Launching Recount in State Controller's Race","customPermalink":"2014/07/06/recount-begins-of-votes-for-state-controller/","path":"/news/141200/recount-of-votes-will-begin-monday-in-controllers-race","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (Max Whittaker/Prime) \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (Max Whittaker/Prime)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Get ready for even more political drama in the closest statewide election in modern California history: a recount of votes cast for state controller that could cost as much as $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assembly speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles) has decided to request, and pay for, a recount of votes in as many as 15 California counties — an effort to see whether he came in third on June 3 behind fellow Democrat Betty Yee ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in California history has the vote difference between two candidates for statewide office been so narrow,” said Pérez in a written statement on Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is therefore of the utmost importance that an additional, carefully conducted review of the ballots be undertaken to ensure that every vote is counted, as intended.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/30/Yee-Squeaks-Past-Perez-for-controller\" target=\"_blank\">missed the second and final spot on the fall ballot by 481 votes in the last tallies reported less than a week ago\u003c/a>. If those numbers hold, Yee will face Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno, on Nov. 4. Swearengin won more than 1 million votes in \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">the last count of ballots\u003c/a>, more than any candidate in the race to be California's next chief fiscal officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s decision means that beginning on Monday, local elections officials will take another look at ballots in Kern; Imperial; San Bernardino; Fresno; San Mateo; Orange; Ventura; Los Angeles; Riverside; Stanislaus; Tulare; Napa; Kings; Lake; and Merced counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/232803584/John-Perez-Asks-for-Recount\" target=\"_blank\">Read the formal recount letter sent to Secretary of State Debra Bowen by John Pérez on Sunday.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parke Skelton, the top campaign consultant to Betty Yee, called the decision by Pérez one that could drag the process out for months — suggesting Yee may also ask for a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No recount is going to be fair that doesn't include more counties,\" said Skelton by phone Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other states, there's no automatic recount provision in California law. Any member of the public, including a candidate, can request a recount within five days of the final canvass of votes, provided he or she pay for it. The decision by Pérez comes right at the final deadline for a request, with Secretary of State Debra Bowen poised to formally certify the state’s June primary results in a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s recount provisions are relatively loose, in that the choice of which votes to tally a second time are chosen by the person who’s paying — individual precincts to entire counties are all subject to recount if someone has the money and inclination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign adviser to Pérez says the 481-vote gap between the two prominent Democrats is within the “statistical margin of error” for the machines that tally paper ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, recounts can be a costly process that produce few — if any — additional votes. On June 25, just hours after it began, a GOP congressional candidate in the Inland Empire \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/06/26/44981/gooch-calls-off-recount-in-inland-empire-congressi/\" target=\"_blank\">called off a recount in a squeaker of a race\u003c/a> -- a recount that produced only a single extra vote in her column, for a cost that exceeded $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter Pérez submitted Sunday afternoon makes clear that the requested recount will go in a specific order, a likely hint that the second tally of votes can stop at any time Pérez wants. It's beginning in places where his vote tally was decidedly higher than that of Yee. A campaign consultant says the cost of the recount will depend on whether votes are re-examined with machines or by hand. The campaign also seeks to take a second look at some vote-by-mail ballots that were disqualified, to see if any of those should be added to the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all of this also exposes one of the quirks of California election law: Other candidates can then begin a recount, too, if they all of a sudden should find themselves knocked out of contention. No effort has materialized at the state Capitol \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/07/a-california-law-on-the.html\" target=\"_blank\">to resume efforts at a tighter set of rules for recounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/141200/recount-of-votes-will-begin-monday-in-controllers-race","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6390","news_6310","news_1052","news_4969"],"featImg":"news_97179","label":"news_6944"},"news_140715":{"type":"posts","id":"news_140715","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"140715","score":null,"sort":[1404198097000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yee-appears-to-edge-perez-in-state-controllers-race","title":"Yee Appears to Have Edged Pérez in Race for State Controller","publishDate":1404198097,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/statecontroller.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140747\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/statecontroller-640x235.jpg\" alt=\"Screen capture of the Secretary of State's latest tally in the primary race for state controller. The top two candidates will appear on the November ballot. \" width=\"640\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture of the Secretary of State's latest tally in the primary race for state controller. The top two candidates will appear on the November ballot.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rarely, perhaps never, has the race for second place been so close and so closely watched for a statewide office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for now, it appears the slight ... perhaps final ... edge goes to \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a> over fellow Democrat John Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent win (again, for second place) came after elections officials in rural Lake County, the last county in the state to finish its official count, \u003ca href=\"http://acm.co.lake.ca.us/elections/results/result26.htm#c2030\" target=\"_blank\">reported the tally early Monday evening\u003c/a>. That tally showed Pérez won the county by 1,041 votes -- a good showing, but not a wide enough margin to overtake Yee's previous statewide lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday report from Lake County shows that, pending any other data, \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">Yee edged Pérez by a mere 484 votes\u003c/a> out of more than 4 million votes cast in the race for state controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the June primary was Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno. But her place on the ballot was never in question. What has been the source of enormous statewide interest in the almost four weeks since Election Day was who came in second -- the only other candidate, under California's top-two primary system, whose name will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I call upon all Democrats to unite in the effort to hold this vital position,\" said Yee, a longtime member of the state Board of Equalization, in a written statement Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent, Democrat John Chiang, is stepping aside due to term limits and is one of the two candidates on the fall ballot for the job of state treasurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Pérez, who recently stepped aside as speaker of the state Assembly, isn't conceding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are still votes to be counted,\" said Pérez's political consultant, Doug Herman, by email Monday night. \"We look forward to the final vote count.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear where the Pérez team believes that votes have been left uncounted. An unofficial report on the website of the Secretary of State shows no county reported outstanding ballots as of last Friday (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/statewide-elections/2014-primary/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for certain: the battle for second place in the controller's race may be the closest contest in California history, and is already the closest in modern times and one of the closest across the nation this election season. But unlike other states, there's no provision for an automatic recount in California election law. Candidates must pay for any recounting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the temptation could be very real for a candidate who comes so close to winning a spot on the fall ballot. As political data consultant Paul Mitchell \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/483795327757979649\" target=\"_blank\">noted on Twitter Monday night\u003c/a>, the 484-vote victory by Betty Yee represents a margin of just one-one hundredth of 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers discusses the race with KQED's Mina Kim:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/156915192&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A duel between Democrats appears to have ended with Betty Yee squeaking past John Pérez by 484 votes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1404262752,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":508},"headData":{"title":"Yee Appears to Have Edged Pérez in Race for State Controller | KQED","description":"It may be the closest statewide contest in California history. But are there votes still left uncounted? One candidate thinks so.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"140715 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=140715","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/01/yee-appears-to-edge-perez-in-state-controllers-race/","disqusTitle":"Yee Appears to Have Edged Pérez in Race for State Controller","customPermalink":"2014/06/30/Yee-Squeaks-Past-Perez-for-controller/","path":"/news/140715/yee-appears-to-edge-perez-in-state-controllers-race","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/statecontroller.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140747\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/statecontroller-640x235.jpg\" alt=\"Screen capture of the Secretary of State's latest tally in the primary race for state controller. The top two candidates will appear on the November ballot. \" width=\"640\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture of the Secretary of State's latest tally in the primary race for state controller. The top two candidates will appear on the November ballot.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rarely, perhaps never, has the race for second place been so close and so closely watched for a statewide office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for now, it appears the slight ... perhaps final ... edge goes to \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a> over fellow Democrat John Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent win (again, for second place) came after elections officials in rural Lake County, the last county in the state to finish its official count, \u003ca href=\"http://acm.co.lake.ca.us/elections/results/result26.htm#c2030\" target=\"_blank\">reported the tally early Monday evening\u003c/a>. That tally showed Pérez won the county by 1,041 votes -- a good showing, but not a wide enough margin to overtake Yee's previous statewide lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday report from Lake County shows that, pending any other data, \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">Yee edged Pérez by a mere 484 votes\u003c/a> out of more than 4 million votes cast in the race for state controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the June primary was Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno. But her place on the ballot was never in question. What has been the source of enormous statewide interest in the almost four weeks since Election Day was who came in second -- the only other candidate, under California's top-two primary system, whose name will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I call upon all Democrats to unite in the effort to hold this vital position,\" said Yee, a longtime member of the state Board of Equalization, in a written statement Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent, Democrat John Chiang, is stepping aside due to term limits and is one of the two candidates on the fall ballot for the job of state treasurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Pérez, who recently stepped aside as speaker of the state Assembly, isn't conceding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are still votes to be counted,\" said Pérez's political consultant, Doug Herman, by email Monday night. \"We look forward to the final vote count.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear where the Pérez team believes that votes have been left uncounted. An unofficial report on the website of the Secretary of State shows no county reported outstanding ballots as of last Friday (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/statewide-elections/2014-primary/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for certain: the battle for second place in the controller's race may be the closest contest in California history, and is already the closest in modern times and one of the closest across the nation this election season. But unlike other states, there's no provision for an automatic recount in California election law. Candidates must pay for any recounting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the temptation could be very real for a candidate who comes so close to winning a spot on the fall ballot. As political data consultant Paul Mitchell \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulmitche11/status/483795327757979649\" target=\"_blank\">noted on Twitter Monday night\u003c/a>, the 484-vote victory by Betty Yee represents a margin of just one-one hundredth of 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Myers discusses the race with KQED's Mina Kim:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/156915192&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/140715/yee-appears-to-edge-perez-in-state-controllers-race","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_6390","news_1052","news_4969"],"featImg":"news_117195","label":"news_6944"},"news_138827":{"type":"posts","id":"news_138827","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"138827","score":null,"sort":[1402535328000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"high-drama-in-state-controllers-race-for-second-place","title":"High Drama in State Controller's Race for Second Place","publishDate":1402535328,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sunnydale.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sunnydale.jpg\" alt=\" (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 6:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Betty Yee has overtaken John A. Pérez, again, as of the afternoon update on the vote count. She is currently 2,820 votes ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may not have the intrigue of hanging chads or mysteriously appearing ballots, but it's the only real statewide drama left from the June 3 primary election: Who won the second and final spot on the fall ballot in the race for state controller?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At various times since the polls closed on Election Night, the answer has been one of three candidates: Republican newcomer David Evans, Democrat and state Board of Equalization member \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a>, or Democrat and former Assembly speaker \u003ca href=\"http://www.perezforcontroller.com/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pérez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the race is now really down to Yee and Pérez, the two Democrats whose campaign to be California's next chief fiscal officer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/california+democrats+divided+in+controller+race\" target=\"_blank\">represented a bitter split among a number of party faithful\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one is a political nail-biter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">official records\u003c/a> show Yee ahead of Pérez — after he was ahead for several days — and after she was ahead before that. Yee's lead stood at 3,008 votes, out of more than 3.7 million votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In first place, as she's been since Election Night, is Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno. Swearengin, who has about 25 percent of the vote, is all but assured of one of the two spots on the Nov. 4 statewide ballot. Her GOP challenger Evans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/05/6458734/dan-morain-david-evans-and-his.html\" target=\"_blank\">an accountant and political unknown\u003c/a> who looked to be in second place as the sun rose on June 4 — now appears to be out of the running, as the two Democrats have amassed thousands of votes in the late counting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Pérez and Yee swapping turns in second place these past few days, the theories as to who ultimately comes out on top are numerous. Some number crunchers suggest that the counties left with a significant number of uncounted ballots lean the final result toward a win for Yee. But Pérez has been ahead of late and has been boosted by the vote tallying in his home territory, Los Angeles — California's most vote-rich county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the roughly 300,000 votes left to count are absentee ballots turned in to elections officials late. But as many as 33,000 uncounted ballots are ones either damaged or marked in a way that machines can't read them. There's no way to know yet how many of those could factor into a race this close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another thing to consider: California has no provision in its election law for an automatic recount, some kind of threshold by which a tight race is guaranteed to get a second look. State law allows anyone to ask for a recount as soon as early July, but the request also requires a private citizen or campaign to \u003cem>pay\u003c/em> for that recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wouldn't be cheap; the last time anyone paid for a re-examination of votes was in the summer of 2012, when backers of the Proposition 29 tobacco tax initiative \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/proposition-29-california-tobacco-tax-backers-seek-recount-after-razor-thin-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">requested a recount in selected parts of Los Angeles\u003c/a>. The estimated cost at that point: about $5,700 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with his fundraising lead in the race, it's doubtful Pérez would have enough cash on hand to mount much of a challenge; Yee would probably have no way to mount such a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why the daily, even hourly vote tally is being so closely watched — easily the closest statewide race for office in a long, long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>3:35 p.m. UPDATE: This story has been updated with new numbers showing Betty Yee overtaking John Pérez's narrow lead. We'll update it as often as possible over the coming hours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Only a handful of votes separates Democrats Betty Yee and John Pérez in race for a November ballot slot.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1402535389,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":666},"headData":{"title":"High Drama in State Controller's Race for Second Place | KQED","description":"Only a handful of votes separates Democrats Betty Yee and John Pérez in race for a November ballot slot.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"138827 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=138827","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/11/high-drama-in-state-controllers-race-for-second-place/","disqusTitle":"High Drama in State Controller's Race for Second Place","customPermalink":"vote-count-continues-in-california-controller-race/","path":"/news/138827/high-drama-in-state-controllers-race-for-second-place","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sunnydale.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sunnydale.jpg\" alt=\" (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 6:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Betty Yee has overtaken John A. Pérez, again, as of the afternoon update on the vote count. She is currently 2,820 votes ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may not have the intrigue of hanging chads or mysteriously appearing ballots, but it's the only real statewide drama left from the June 3 primary election: Who won the second and final spot on the fall ballot in the race for state controller?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At various times since the polls closed on Election Night, the answer has been one of three candidates: Republican newcomer David Evans, Democrat and state Board of Equalization member \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a>, or Democrat and former Assembly speaker \u003ca href=\"http://www.perezforcontroller.com/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pérez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the race is now really down to Yee and Pérez, the two Democrats whose campaign to be California's next chief fiscal officer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/california+democrats+divided+in+controller+race\" target=\"_blank\">represented a bitter split among a number of party faithful\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one is a political nail-biter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of early Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/controller/\" target=\"_blank\">official records\u003c/a> show Yee ahead of Pérez — after he was ahead for several days — and after she was ahead before that. Yee's lead stood at 3,008 votes, out of more than 3.7 million votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In first place, as she's been since Election Night, is Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno. Swearengin, who has about 25 percent of the vote, is all but assured of one of the two spots on the Nov. 4 statewide ballot. Her GOP challenger Evans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/05/6458734/dan-morain-david-evans-and-his.html\" target=\"_blank\">an accountant and political unknown\u003c/a> who looked to be in second place as the sun rose on June 4 — now appears to be out of the running, as the two Democrats have amassed thousands of votes in the late counting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Pérez and Yee swapping turns in second place these past few days, the theories as to who ultimately comes out on top are numerous. Some number crunchers suggest that the counties left with a significant number of uncounted ballots lean the final result toward a win for Yee. But Pérez has been ahead of late and has been boosted by the vote tallying in his home territory, Los Angeles — California's most vote-rich county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the roughly 300,000 votes left to count are absentee ballots turned in to elections officials late. But as many as 33,000 uncounted ballots are ones either damaged or marked in a way that machines can't read them. There's no way to know yet how many of those could factor into a race this close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another thing to consider: California has no provision in its election law for an automatic recount, some kind of threshold by which a tight race is guaranteed to get a second look. State law allows anyone to ask for a recount as soon as early July, but the request also requires a private citizen or campaign to \u003cem>pay\u003c/em> for that recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wouldn't be cheap; the last time anyone paid for a re-examination of votes was in the summer of 2012, when backers of the Proposition 29 tobacco tax initiative \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/proposition-29-california-tobacco-tax-backers-seek-recount-after-razor-thin-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">requested a recount in selected parts of Los Angeles\u003c/a>. The estimated cost at that point: about $5,700 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with his fundraising lead in the race, it's doubtful Pérez would have enough cash on hand to mount much of a challenge; Yee would probably have no way to mount such a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why the daily, even hourly vote tally is being so closely watched — easily the closest statewide race for office in a long, long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>3:35 p.m. UPDATE: This story has been updated with new numbers showing Betty Yee overtaking John Pérez's narrow lead. We'll update it as often as possible over the coming hours.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/138827/high-drama-in-state-controllers-race-for-second-place","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_6390","news_1052"],"featImg":"news_128760","label":"news_6944"},"news_137929":{"type":"posts","id":"news_137929","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"137929","score":null,"sort":[1401896708000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"live-updates-statewide-races","title":"Statewide Races: Result in Controller Contest Far From Final","publishDate":1401896708,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-137934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/sos.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Schnur, Alex Padilla and Pete Peterson are among the candidates vying for Secretary of State. (Courtesy photos)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Schnur, Alex Padilla and Pete Peterson were among the candidates vying for secretary of state. (Courtesy photos)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 8:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Just one of the statewide races has been left undecided: state controller. With 100 percent of the state's precincts counted, Republican Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno, is in the No. 1 position with 24.4 percent of the vote and will move on to the November general election. And that's where the certainty on the outcome ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> and Betty Yee and Republican David Evans are within a few thousand votes of each other. \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span>, an assemblyman and former speaker of the Legislature's lower house, has 21.7 percent of the vote; Evans, a Republican CPA, has 21.6 percent; and Yee, a member of the state Board of Equalization, has 21.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, this is where all those uncounted votes from Tuesday — mail-in , provisional and damaged ballots —will come in. Statewide, there are likely hundreds of thousands of them still to be counted. That means it will be a matter of days before we know who will be the No. 2 finisher in the race and make it onto the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are other results for statewide offices from \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">the Secretary of State\u003c/a>'s Office:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lieutenant Governor\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> 49.9 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ron Nehring:\u003c/strong> 23.3 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secretary of State\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Alex Padilla:\u003c/strong> 30.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pete Peterson:\u003c/strong> 29.6 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Treasurer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>John Chiang:\u003c/strong> 55.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Greg Conlon:\u003c/strong> 38.4 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attorney General\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris:\u003c/strong> 53.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ronald Gold:\u003c/strong> 12.7 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Insurance Commissioner\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dave Jones:\u003c/strong> 53.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ted Gaines:\u003c/strong> 41.6 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Superintendent of Public Instruction\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Tom Torlakson:\u003c/strong> 46.9 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Marshall Tuck:\u003c/strong> 28.6 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lydia Gutierrez:\u003c/strong> 24.4 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 12:30 a.m.: \u003c/strong>With 74 percent of precincts reporting, Tom Torlakson and Marshall Tuck lead the race for superintendent of public instruction with 48 percent and 28 percent of the vote, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for state controller will likely come down to a dramatic finish, as four candidates are within 80,000 votes of each other. Currently, Republicans Ashley Swearengin (24.2 percent) and David Evans (22 percent) are edging out Democrats Betty Yee (21.6 percent) and John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> (21.2%). Yee has been chipping away at Evans' lead over the past several hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we mentioned in an earlier update, Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson will advance to the November ballot. Surprisingly, Democrat Leland Yee, who is facing a federal indictment, received more than a quarter-million votes from around the state and is currently in third place. He even edged out Dan Schnur, who is in fourth place, drawing 9 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 11:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The race for superintendent of public instruction was a union-versus-reformers referendum, and the unions made a strong statement that their political power remains strong in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent, Tom Torlakson, was backed by teacher unions and had nearly 49 percent of the votes. Marshall Tuck, a former charter school operator who wants changes to how teachers are evaluated and when they can be fired, trailed with 27 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate was Long Beach educator Lydia Gutierrez, a Republican who also ran four years ago. She attracted 24 percent of the votes with a campaign critical of recently enacted national learning benchmarks called Common Core State Standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson are headed to the November general election in the race for secretary of state. That result comes after a closely watched primary season where observers thought the race might lean toward two candidates from a single party, or an independent candidate making it to the fall. Leland Yee, the embattled San Francisco legislator who dropped out of the race after a federal indictment was filed against him for an alleged attempt to illegally trade weapons for campaign cash, is currently in third place, commanding about 11 percent of the vote. Dan Schnur, the independent who once was a GOP political consultant, remains a distant fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With about 27 percent of precincts reporting in the state controller's race, two Republicans are in the top two places, a potential shutout of both well-known Democrats. Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno, has 24 percent of the votes tallied. David Evans, a GOP accountant who has neither raised nor spent any campaign funds, has 23 percent of votes. Democrats Betty Yee and John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> are close behind, with Yee within striking distance of Evans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStatewide races, other than the race for governor, rarely get much attention during a primary election, but the new top-two primary rules have changed that in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secretary of State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most prominent has been the race for secretary of state, California's chief elections officer — a race featuring eight candidates, a corruption scandal and the possibility that an independent candidate could make it onto the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in all, the most prominent two candidates — Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson — have largely been favored to emerge in the top two positions once the voters are counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"51a9b2fc6a2ba4904c21e6a414072cae\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, a veteran state senator from Los Angeles, has led the race for campaign cash. Another Democrat, former California Common Cause official Derek Cressman, also has raised significant cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political money became an unexpected lightning rod in the race in March when candidate Leland Yee, a state senator from San Francisco, was charged by federal investigators with allegedly offering to aid in an illegal weapons deal in exchange for political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee dropped out of the race, but too late for his name to be removed from the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent Republican, Pepperdine University official Pete Peterson, has been endorsed by some statewide newspapers and has increasingly looked like a candidate who could solidify GOP votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent candidate is also the one facing some of the longest odds: Dan Schnur, the former GOP political consultant who has recently taught at USC and is a well-known analyst on California politics. But as an independent candidate, Schnur has no natural political base from which to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Controller\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for state controller, California chief's fiscal officer, also has proved to be one of the most closely watched contests -- pitting two popular Democrats against each other, both widely seen as vying for one of the top two spots alongside Republican Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats John Pérez, the immediate past speaker of the state Assembly, has the backing of much of organized labor. His Democratic challenger, state Board of Equalization member Betty Yee, has backing from a number of grassroots activists across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Superintendent of Public Instruction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only nonpartisan statewide race has also been closely watched: the battle for superintendent of public instruction. Incumbent Tom Torlakson has found himself in an expensive and fierce battle against newcomer Marshall Tuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torlakson is a former Democratic legislator and has the backing of the powerful California Teachers Association. Tuck is an education advocate who was tapped by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and has the backing of groups that have advocated for major changes to education law and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Post by KQED Senior Politics and Government Editor John Myers. KQED's Dan Brekke and Kelly O'Mara contributed to the post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A three-way dogfight for the No. 2 spot on the fall ballot may not be resolved for days. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1401920877,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1273},"headData":{"title":"Statewide Races: Result in Controller Contest Far From Final | KQED","description":"A three-way dogfight for the No. 2 spot on the fall ballot may not be resolved for days. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"137929 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=137929","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/04/live-updates-statewide-races/","disqusTitle":"Statewide Races: Result in Controller Contest Far From Final","customPermalink":"2014/06/03/key-statewide-races-live-updates/","path":"/news/137929/live-updates-statewide-races","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-137934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/sos.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Schnur, Alex Padilla and Pete Peterson are among the candidates vying for Secretary of State. (Courtesy photos)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Schnur, Alex Padilla and Pete Peterson were among the candidates vying for secretary of state. (Courtesy photos)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 8:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Just one of the statewide races has been left undecided: state controller. With 100 percent of the state's precincts counted, Republican Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno, is in the No. 1 position with 24.4 percent of the vote and will move on to the November general election. And that's where the certainty on the outcome ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> and Betty Yee and Republican David Evans are within a few thousand votes of each other. \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span>, an assemblyman and former speaker of the Legislature's lower house, has 21.7 percent of the vote; Evans, a Republican CPA, has 21.6 percent; and Yee, a member of the state Board of Equalization, has 21.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, this is where all those uncounted votes from Tuesday — mail-in , provisional and damaged ballots —will come in. Statewide, there are likely hundreds of thousands of them still to be counted. That means it will be a matter of days before we know who will be the No. 2 finisher in the race and make it onto the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are other results for statewide offices from \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">the Secretary of State\u003c/a>'s Office:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lieutenant Governor\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> 49.9 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ron Nehring:\u003c/strong> 23.3 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secretary of State\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Alex Padilla:\u003c/strong> 30.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pete Peterson:\u003c/strong> 29.6 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Treasurer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>John Chiang:\u003c/strong> 55.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Greg Conlon:\u003c/strong> 38.4 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attorney General\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris:\u003c/strong> 53.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ronald Gold:\u003c/strong> 12.7 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Insurance Commissioner\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dave Jones:\u003c/strong> 53.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ted Gaines:\u003c/strong> 41.6 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Superintendent of Public Instruction\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Tom Torlakson:\u003c/strong> 46.9 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Marshall Tuck:\u003c/strong> 28.6 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lydia Gutierrez:\u003c/strong> 24.4 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 12:30 a.m.: \u003c/strong>With 74 percent of precincts reporting, Tom Torlakson and Marshall Tuck lead the race for superintendent of public instruction with 48 percent and 28 percent of the vote, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for state controller will likely come down to a dramatic finish, as four candidates are within 80,000 votes of each other. Currently, Republicans Ashley Swearengin (24.2 percent) and David Evans (22 percent) are edging out Democrats Betty Yee (21.6 percent) and John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> (21.2%). Yee has been chipping away at Evans' lead over the past several hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we mentioned in an earlier update, Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson will advance to the November ballot. Surprisingly, Democrat Leland Yee, who is facing a federal indictment, received more than a quarter-million votes from around the state and is currently in third place. He even edged out Dan Schnur, who is in fourth place, drawing 9 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 11:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The race for superintendent of public instruction was a union-versus-reformers referendum, and the unions made a strong statement that their political power remains strong in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent, Tom Torlakson, was backed by teacher unions and had nearly 49 percent of the votes. Marshall Tuck, a former charter school operator who wants changes to how teachers are evaluated and when they can be fired, trailed with 27 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate was Long Beach educator Lydia Gutierrez, a Republican who also ran four years ago. She attracted 24 percent of the votes with a campaign critical of recently enacted national learning benchmarks called Common Core State Standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson are headed to the November general election in the race for secretary of state. That result comes after a closely watched primary season where observers thought the race might lean toward two candidates from a single party, or an independent candidate making it to the fall. Leland Yee, the embattled San Francisco legislator who dropped out of the race after a federal indictment was filed against him for an alleged attempt to illegally trade weapons for campaign cash, is currently in third place, commanding about 11 percent of the vote. Dan Schnur, the independent who once was a GOP political consultant, remains a distant fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With about 27 percent of precincts reporting in the state controller's race, two Republicans are in the top two places, a potential shutout of both well-known Democrats. Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno, has 24 percent of the votes tallied. David Evans, a GOP accountant who has neither raised nor spent any campaign funds, has 23 percent of votes. Democrats Betty Yee and John \u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">Pérez\u003c/span> are close behind, with Yee within striking distance of Evans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStatewide races, other than the race for governor, rarely get much attention during a primary election, but the new top-two primary rules have changed that in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secretary of State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most prominent has been the race for secretary of state, California's chief elections officer — a race featuring eight candidates, a corruption scandal and the possibility that an independent candidate could make it onto the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in all, the most prominent two candidates — Democrat Alex Padilla and Republican Pete Peterson — have largely been favored to emerge in the top two positions once the voters are counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, a veteran state senator from Los Angeles, has led the race for campaign cash. Another Democrat, former California Common Cause official Derek Cressman, also has raised significant cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political money became an unexpected lightning rod in the race in March when candidate Leland Yee, a state senator from San Francisco, was charged by federal investigators with allegedly offering to aid in an illegal weapons deal in exchange for political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee dropped out of the race, but too late for his name to be removed from the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent Republican, Pepperdine University official Pete Peterson, has been endorsed by some statewide newspapers and has increasingly looked like a candidate who could solidify GOP votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent candidate is also the one facing some of the longest odds: Dan Schnur, the former GOP political consultant who has recently taught at USC and is a well-known analyst on California politics. But as an independent candidate, Schnur has no natural political base from which to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Controller\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for state controller, California chief's fiscal officer, also has proved to be one of the most closely watched contests -- pitting two popular Democrats against each other, both widely seen as vying for one of the top two spots alongside Republican Ashley Swearingen, the mayor of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats John Pérez, the immediate past speaker of the state Assembly, has the backing of much of organized labor. His Democratic challenger, state Board of Equalization member Betty Yee, has backing from a number of grassroots activists across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Superintendent of Public Instruction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only nonpartisan statewide race has also been closely watched: the battle for superintendent of public instruction. Incumbent Tom Torlakson has found himself in an expensive and fierce battle against newcomer Marshall Tuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torlakson is a former Democratic legislator and has the backing of the powerful California Teachers Association. Tuck is an education advocate who was tapped by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and has the backing of groups that have advocated for major changes to education law and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Post by KQED Senior Politics and Government Editor John Myers. KQED's Dan Brekke and Kelly O'Mara contributed to the post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/137929/live-updates-statewide-races","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_6304"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_6390","news_6416","news_1052","news_4969"],"featImg":"news_137934","label":"news_6944"},"news_137378":{"type":"posts","id":"news_137378","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"137378","score":null,"sort":[1401348641000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dilemma-for-democrats-in-race-for-state-controller","title":"Dilemma for Democrats in Race for State Controller","publishDate":1401348641,"format":"aside","headTitle":"California Election Watch 2014 | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In politics, the electoral odds can change overnight. Just ask Betty Yee and John Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/controller.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-137422\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/controller.jpeg\" alt=\"California State Controller Seal\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>After months of it seeming as though their Democratic intraparty battle to be state controller could — under California's top two primary system — go all the way to November, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/03/05/fresno-mayor-launches-california-state-controller-bid/6080787/\" target=\"_blank\">the dynamic quickly changed on March 5, when a heavyweight Republican threw her hat in the ring.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno, to run for the job of California's top fiscal official left even would-be opponents realizing that GOP voters will probably fall in line behind her on June 3 rather than play the field. If so, that leaves only one spot for a Democrat on the fall ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The incumbent controller, John Chiang, can't run for re-election due to term limits and is instead \u003ca href=\"http://www.electjohnchiang.com/\" target=\"_blank\">running for state treasurer\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe it'll be me, but that remains to be seen,\" says Assemblyman \u003ca href=\"http://www.perezforcontroller.com/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pérez\u003c/a> (D-Los Angeles).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I didn't have the luxury to be a candidate for two years, when I was actually helping negotiate our way out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.'\u003ccite>— John Pérez\u003cbr>\nAssemblyman and controller candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pérez is perhaps the best-known of all the candidates for controller. He served as speaker of the state Assembly from 2010 until earlier this month, and as such was one of the architects of the last four state budgets. Pérez also attracted headlines for individual efforts on an expanded rainy day reserve fund and for crafting 2012's new college scholarship program for students from middle-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the former speaker has placed third in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25553306/field-poll-republican-ashley-swearengin-leads-race-state\" target=\"_blank\">public polls\u003c/a> on the race for controller. Swearengin has come in first, with second place being held by the candidate who entered the race before everyone else: Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, a resident of San Francisco, has been a member of the state Board of Equalization since 2005. Before that, she was a fiscal analyst for the board and a top budget aide to former Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee began the race before anyone, but hasn't raised as much money as others. She says that's partly because she places her own limits on donations from businesses that might one day bring their issues before the Board of Equalization, the state's arbiter of many tax disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been running a very different kind of campaign,\" said Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign pits not just her against Pérez, but also factions of Democrats against each other -- from organized labor to community activists and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been interesting to see what the race has turned on,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, a longtime activist in the state party who now writes political analysis for a variety of websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, Dayen says there's anger left over from 2012, when Pérez worked for incumbent Democratic assembly members who moved to new districts after the 2011 redistricting — bumping up against some local Democrats who were already running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The activists,\" said Dayen, \"are going to have long memories on all that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez says that kind of Democratic angst comes with the job of being a party leader. But he bristles at accusations that his decision to run for controller came so late as to be unfair to Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never thought elections were about somebody calling 'dibs,' \" he said in a recent interview. \"I didn't have the luxury to be a candidate for two years, when I was actually helping negotiate our way out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee counters by suggesting the former speaker doesn't have the right resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think the legislative process is limited. It really doesn't allow, I think, a full assessment of what's happening.'\u003ccite>— Betty Yee,\u003cbr>\nBoard of Equalization member and controller candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think the legislative process is limited,\" she said in reference to Pérez's experience. \"It really doesn't allow, I think, a full assessment of what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, Pérez argues Yee should have done more in her role during the Davis administration to manage the state's finances during the last budget surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took in less money than they spent,\" he said. \"That's not what you want from the chief fiscal office of the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how will Democrats sort it out? Political analysts think Swearengin, the Republican, will be a formidable general election candidate — an opinion backed up \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-end-controller-20140507-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">with her recent endorsement by the Los Angeles Times and others\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think it's going to turn on personal affinity,\" said David Dayen on the choice facing his fellow Democrats. \"And it's the importance of labor support [for Pérez], or whether you're trying to reward Betty Yee for years and years of service to the party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/151848524&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Popular Republican's arrival in the race means just one of two powerful Democrats will survive primary. 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Just ask Betty Yee and John Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/controller.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-137422\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/controller.jpeg\" alt=\"California State Controller Seal\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>After months of it seeming as though their Democratic intraparty battle to be state controller could — under California's top two primary system — go all the way to November, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/03/05/fresno-mayor-launches-california-state-controller-bid/6080787/\" target=\"_blank\">the dynamic quickly changed on March 5, when a heavyweight Republican threw her hat in the ring.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ashleyforca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Swearengin\u003c/a>, the incumbent mayor of Fresno, to run for the job of California's top fiscal official left even would-be opponents realizing that GOP voters will probably fall in line behind her on June 3 rather than play the field. If so, that leaves only one spot for a Democrat on the fall ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The incumbent controller, John Chiang, can't run for re-election due to term limits and is instead \u003ca href=\"http://www.electjohnchiang.com/\" target=\"_blank\">running for state treasurer\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe it'll be me, but that remains to be seen,\" says Assemblyman \u003ca href=\"http://www.perezforcontroller.com/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pérez\u003c/a> (D-Los Angeles).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I didn't have the luxury to be a candidate for two years, when I was actually helping negotiate our way out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.'\u003ccite>— John Pérez\u003cbr>\nAssemblyman and controller candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pérez is perhaps the best-known of all the candidates for controller. He served as speaker of the state Assembly from 2010 until earlier this month, and as such was one of the architects of the last four state budgets. Pérez also attracted headlines for individual efforts on an expanded rainy day reserve fund and for crafting 2012's new college scholarship program for students from middle-class families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the former speaker has placed third in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25553306/field-poll-republican-ashley-swearengin-leads-race-state\" target=\"_blank\">public polls\u003c/a> on the race for controller. Swearengin has come in first, with second place being held by the candidate who entered the race before everyone else: Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://bettyyee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Yee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, a resident of San Francisco, has been a member of the state Board of Equalization since 2005. Before that, she was a fiscal analyst for the board and a top budget aide to former Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee began the race before anyone, but hasn't raised as much money as others. She says that's partly because she places her own limits on donations from businesses that might one day bring their issues before the Board of Equalization, the state's arbiter of many tax disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been running a very different kind of campaign,\" said Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That campaign pits not just her against Pérez, but also factions of Democrats against each other -- from organized labor to community activists and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been interesting to see what the race has turned on,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, a longtime activist in the state party who now writes political analysis for a variety of websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, Dayen says there's anger left over from 2012, when Pérez worked for incumbent Democratic assembly members who moved to new districts after the 2011 redistricting — bumping up against some local Democrats who were already running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The activists,\" said Dayen, \"are going to have long memories on all that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez says that kind of Democratic angst comes with the job of being a party leader. But he bristles at accusations that his decision to run for controller came so late as to be unfair to Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never thought elections were about somebody calling 'dibs,' \" he said in a recent interview. \"I didn't have the luxury to be a candidate for two years, when I was actually helping negotiate our way out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee counters by suggesting the former speaker doesn't have the right resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think the legislative process is limited. It really doesn't allow, I think, a full assessment of what's happening.'\u003ccite>— Betty Yee,\u003cbr>\nBoard of Equalization member and controller candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think the legislative process is limited,\" she said in reference to Pérez's experience. \"It really doesn't allow, I think, a full assessment of what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, Pérez argues Yee should have done more in her role during the Davis administration to manage the state's finances during the last budget surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took in less money than they spent,\" he said. \"That's not what you want from the chief fiscal office of the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how will Democrats sort it out? 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