Gray in His Groove
Primary matters: The false spring of the Republican right, the real spring of the Democratic left
The pickup of five seats by liberals in last week‘s primary is significant because it tracks the overall political progression of the state. With the ongoing political mobilization of Latinos changing the politics of such onetime conservative bastions as northern Orange County from Republican to Democrat, with L.A. County now as reliably liberal in its voting as the Bay Area, with state independents aligning increasingly on the more liberal side of the spectrum, the Democrats whom Californians send to Sacramento and D.C. should be moving leftward. And with term limits mandating a turnover in Sacramento every two years, last week’s liberal victories may well foreshadow clear liberal majorities in both houses of the Legislature within four or six years‘ time.
All of which means that the chief question Bill Simon should be asking himself as he embarks on his general-election campaign for governor is: What the hell am I doing here?
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