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B3rk!Lcleld[Lsrrs and Wm@ B@Nd in a general elrction that was almost a District 4 (56% D - 27% R) direct reprise of the blanket primary. Chiang (D*) 855,317 (60) Andal’s victory rvas less than sterling but Adams (R) 424,116 (30) expected in a cktrict where Democrats Bailey (GI 56,708 (4) spent heavily ti, get out the Latino vote Tennings (L) 40,400 (3) for overlapFinE Central Valley Assembly isaacson (PF) 43,609 (3) races. Although technically not an incum- bent, acting board member John Chiang had all the trappings, including a healthy Chiang- District 3 (37 YO D - 44% R) fund-raising edgeboth in thesplintered Christian-Helsing (D) 728,847 (42) Democratic primary and in the relatively painless general Parrish (R) 924,617 (53) election. A measure of the office’s obscurity came when Graham (L) 65,035 (4) Chiang was introduced at a Democratic pep rally at UCLA the Quirk (PF) 27,296 (2) day before the election. He was introduced as someone who Ernie has eft the building. Republi- helped organize the rally, rather than as an actual member can Claude Parrish won the right to of the ticket, and his candidacy was mentioned only as an succeed ;ongtime member Ernie afterthought. & Dronenburg, ivho was termed out after Parrish 20 years 011 tl-e board. B3rk!lcleld[lsrrs and wm@ b@nd Cc ngratulations on a brilliant piece of fiction school facilities for the last 12 years and they have about “muscle politics” and “monstrous” lobbying been rising faster in the last decade than any other tax tactics leading to the passage this year of SB 50, the on any other business or taxpayer group in the state. lancirn Irk legislation to establish a long-term financing And, these taxes have real-life consequences. prcbgr: m for building and modernizing California Every $1,000 in fees added to the price of a home pulAic schools (see CJ, November 1998). I can’t wait means tens of thousands of California families can’t to see the movie. Granted, the truth about what SB 50 afford to buy that home. Representing a state with the is adhow the school facilities compromise came to nation’s highest housing costs and lowest pass s much less entertaining than the “drama” homeownership rate, fewer and fewer legislators are portrayed in your article. But, the facts about this as dismissive of homebuilder complaints about fees, histor c compromise are undeniable. and the bi-partisan support for SB 50 shows it. e SB 50 is a fail-safe school financing program that Homebuilders realize that “entertainmentvalue” gu.ira itees 100 percent financing for new facilities, no will often determine how stories like the passage of rn:-.tte 1 what; SB 50 will be told. But the, CaliforniaJournalmight SB 50 represents the first-ever long-term school be advised to listen carefully to what it thinks is the fac.ilit es plan in California’s history; and thud of an 800-pound “special interest” gorilla. It c Despite the Journal’sassertions to the contrary, may instead be the increasingly synchronized march hcmt builders, not taxpayers, will pay more under SB of hard-working families and individuals in Califor- 50. nia looking for an affordable place to live - coming The Journal asks: “Why should homebuilders be to a “theater” near you. partic ipants in school construction policy making, TIMOTHY L. COnE arym ay?”Again, the truth is that fees on new homes Senior Vice President have been the only reliable source of funding for California Building Industry Association DECEMBER 1998 LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG 17 ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Con g ress f Republicans Can point to one bright spot in the only by the popularity of 10-term Con- debris of 1998, it is their congressional delegation, which actually gained gressman Vic Fazio, who rose to the a seat on Election Day. The GOP added seats previously held by third most powerful position in the Democrats Vic Fazio (West Sacramento) and Jane Harman (Torrance), House Democratic hierarchy. But Fazio while losing the north coast enclave held by Republican Frank Riggs. weathered tough, expensive challenges None of the incumbents ran; Fazio retired, while Harman and Riggs lost June in the last two elections and decided to primaries for governor and U.S. Senate, respectively. The only other incumbents hang ’em up this year. That opened the among the 52-member delegation who will not return for the 1999-2000 Congress way for Ose, who, with the help of $1 are Democrat Esteban Torres, who retired, and Republican Jay Kim, who was million of his own cash and a series of defeated in the June primary. memorable campaign ads attacking his Not all the news was terrific for congressional Republicans, however. Although primary opponent, termed-out Assem- they gained a seat, they failed to mount significant challenges to several Democrats blywoman Barbara Alby, survived his considered vulnerable earlier in the year. Ellen Tauscher of Danville, Cal Dooley party’s primary to go head-to-head with of Visalia, Brad Sherman of Sherman Oaks, Lois Capps of Santa Barbara and George Dunn. Dunn never got momentum on Brown Jr. of Colton were expected to face stiff challenges that never materialized. her side, in part because she was con- In fact, the toughest challenges were hurled at a pair of Republican incumbents - ceived as a candidate to run against the James Rogan of Glendale and Brian Bilbray of San Diego. Both won narrow re- more conservative Alby. When Ose elections after hard-fought campaigns. upset Alby in the primary, the Demo- And then there was the most expensive congressional race in the country - cratic Party’s Washington apparatus the Orange County air war between incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez and the turned in a lackluster effort on Dunn’s man she kicked out of Congress in 1996, Bob Dornan. The total bill may reach $7 behalf, helping Ose cruise to victory and million as Sanchez won a convincing victory over the conservative Dornan, who tilt the California congressional delega- has claimed for two years that the ’96 contest had been stolen from him by a raft tion with one more seat in the Republi- of illegal voters. At least, the peripatetic Dornan won’t make that claim this time can column. around; he was pasted. - A.G. Block District 4 (36% D - 47% R) Shapiro (D) 76,273 (35) District 1 (47% D - 33% R) erts Braden got 8,000 votes fewer than Doolittle (R*) 137,333 (62) Thompson (D) 110,590 (62) he did in 1996, when he last faced off Winterrowd (L) 6,656 (3) Luce (R) 58,370 (33) with fixture Wally Herger. Conservative Republican John Rossi (L) 4,958 (3) Doolittle did little in his re-election Jones (PF) 4,525 (3) District 3 (45% D - 39% R) effort, easily sailing to victory over two State Senator Mike Thompson wal- Dunn (D) 81,493 (45) token opponents. loped Napa County Supervisor Mark Ose (R) 96,110 (53) Luce, whose invocation of President Crain (L) 4,672 (2) District 5 (55% D - 29% R) Bill Clinton’s troubles and efforts to Matsui (D*) 123,067 (72) paint centrist Thompson as a liberal Dinsmore (R) 44,641 (26) big-spender fell flat. It didn’t help that Tuma (L) 3,536 (2) Luce trailed his opponent in fund rais- With the retirement of Vic Fazio, ing throughout the campaign by about Congressman Robert Matsui becomes 10-to-1 and that the Republican Party the Sacramentoarea’s bastion of Demo- chose not to fortify Luce for battle. In cratic seniority in the House of Repre- choosing the pragmatic Thompson, sentatives. voters may have finally landed some- body with staying power in this hard- Ose Dunn District 6 (52% D - 29% R) to-represent district that has flipped Woolsey (D*) 144,998 (68) parties throughout the ’90s. The 3rd District finally fulfilled its McAuliffe (R) 63,481 (29) inevitable destiny this election and Barreca (NL) 4,776 (2) District 2 (38% D - 44% R) crossed over into the Republican col- Nothing doing for building con- Braden (D) 66,225 (35) umn as GOP millionaire developer Doug tractor Ken McAuliffe against three- Herger (R*) 118,881 (62) Ose defeated Democrat Sandee Dunn term incumbent Lynn Woolsey. Thiessen (NL) 5,726 (3) without much of a fight. This Sacra- Democratic tide notwithstanding, mento district has been trending Re- District 7 (60%0D - 22% R) they’re losing registration numbers up publican since redistricting in 1990 and Miller (D*) 117,423 (77) here. Retired university professor Rob- was kept out of the Republican column Reece (R) 35,534 (23) 18 LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG CALIFORNIA JOURNAL ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED.
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