We've had a Republican Congressional representative for a number of years over several office holders. I haven't looked to see yet. I got the usual (unread) e-mail and the first line/subject didn't suggest defeated. Not in L.A. County but understand the opponent for Gascon is a solid opportunity. One of the opponents was a ringer so a local radio host wouldn't even mention the name or have him/her on to avoid having voters recall the name and vote that way and get two losers in the race.
Prop 1 hopefully will be defeated. But it's crazy close and vote counting will go on for a while. Defeated, I hope, for 2 reasons. It's bad, taking money from established county programs and feeding it through a state appointed bureaucratic board, it pays for more housing and not enough effective treatment, the SEIU wants it, it's a bond Measure and the state has already seen it's "surplus" evaporate. #2? Newson is pushing it and if it shows anything, maybe more voters are starting to get over him.
L.A. City has an "HLA" (?) Measure. I guess it requires street rehabilitation projects to incorporate bike and bus lanes. I'm not automatically against dedicated bus and bike lanes. Cars and buses and street cars and bikes in high densities don't go well together. Aside from the leftist clowns pushing it, it seems completely unplanned as to which streets will get the lanes, how they might connect to other "lanes," what happens when you reach the border of Los Angeles and county or other cities, it seems awfully likely to create real emergency response problems, trapping fire, police and medical responses, also reducing street capacity in areas which might need evacuations or responses for wildfires, etc. and it's unfunded, so, if forced to make more complicated and expensive street projects, the money will have to come from other parts of the budget. so that has a potential to be a royal pain for residents of L.A. and a source of amusement for the rest of us. Until we have to places in or near L.A.