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The 2010 California gubernatorial election was held November 2, 2010, to elect the governor of California. The primary elections were held on June 8, 2010. Because constitutional office holders in California have been prohibited from serving more than two terms in the same office since November 6, 1990, incumbent Republican Arnold ...
- Inauguration and Transition
- Polling
- Candidates
- Campaign Finance
- Issues and Positions in The Race
- Incidents in The Race
- Debates
- Campaign Advertisements
- Political Landscape
- See Also
Inaugural date
California's Constitution requires a newly elected governor to take office the first Monday after the New Year. For Governor-elect Jerry Brown, this means the Inaugural occurred on January 3, 2011.
Transition team
Deliberately contrasting himself with outgoing Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 2003 transition team had a staff of 67, Brown was very public about the small, and mostly unpaid, group coordinating his own transition.Of $890,000 set aside to pay for the transition, Brown has promised to use only a fraction. Serving as transition coordinator was Chief Deputy District Attorney General Jim Humes. In his first month as Governor of California, Jerry Browngave the State of the State...
Primary election polling
Polling showed Meg Whitmanto be favored in the Republican Primary early on.
American Independent
1. Business owner Chelene Nightingale 2. Markham Robinson, also a business owner
Democratic
1. Businessman Richard William Aquirre 2. Edmund G. Jerry Brown, the sitting Attorney General of California going into 2010 3. Lowell Darling, an artist 4. Vibert Greene, a mechanical engineer and CEO 5. Charles 'Chuck' Pineda, Jr., a parole board judge for the state 6. Peter Schruman, a consultant to nonprofits 7. Joe Symon, president of a nonprofit Withdrawn Democratic candidates 1. Gavin Newsom announced on October 30, 2009 that he was withdrawing from the race.He later ran for an won the...
Green
1. Financial consultant Laura Wells 2. S. Deacon Alexander, a student
The California Secretary of State makes PDFs of all reports and addenda for candidates available free and online at their "Cal-Access" site. Candidates for 2010 are searchable using the "Candidates and Elected Officials Portal" Additionally, information on campaign finance disclosures is broken down into several useful metrics on "Follow the Money....
Suspension of AB 32
1. 1.1. See also: California Jobs Initiative, the Suspension of AB 32 (2010) A ballot proposition to suspend AB 32until the unemployment rate in California falls below 5.5% for four quarters in a row became an issue in the gubernatorial contest. 1. Meg Whitmansaid that she would act to freeze AB 32 for a year or more. 2. Jerry Brownsaid that he would support "adjusting" some features of AB 32 but that he generally supports it and would not suspend it.
The Budget
California's fiscal crisis, which reduced the state to "paying" employees in IOUs and flirting with bankruptcy, made budget management a white hot topic on the campaign trail. Jerry brow rolled out an eight-page plan to start California's annual budget from scratch if elected.Called "zero based budgeting," the proposal addressed cost overruns by requiring government agencies to submit a budget that does not assume anything will be funded just because it's already in place. Essentially, every...
"Global Warming"
Speaking to the editorial board of the Mercury Newson September 21st, Meg Whitman discussed a center-right approach to governance and specifically said that, as governor, she would "probably" veto a global warming law.
"Fresno looks like Detroit" In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Meg Whitman committed a slip of the tongue when discussing the impact of high unemployment and economic stagnation on the city of Fresno. "Fresno looks like Detroit. It's awful," the candidate said, in an off-the-cuff remark that drew instantaneous apologies, explanations, ...
Whitman and Brown scheduled three televised debates, with the first round set for September 28, 2010. The debates represented an opportunity for both candidates to demonstrate their empathy to voters, nearly a fifth of whom estill undecided before the first debate, and most of whom perceived both candidates negatively - the dividend of months of ad...
California Working Families
Knowing the rest of the nation was watching, California certainly putting on a captivating show as Republican Meg Whitman and Democratic Jerry Brown vied for votes. No sooner had Whitman sealed the GOP nomination than unions and labor groups began sponsoring ads against her candidacy. Several groups formed a coalition called California Working Families for Jerry Brown, a group which was the source of many of Whitman's headaches. CWF's spots targeted spending and taxation proposals in Whitman'...
Autumn campaign ads
Just after Labor Day, Jerry Brown's campaign rolled out its first ad, a 30-second TV spot that began playing state-wide on September 7, 2010. Estimated to cost the Brown campaign $1.2 million per week, the spot touted Brown's track record and acumen in cutting costs and balancing budgets
Bill Clinton and Pinocchio
If Californian elections didn't already command national scrutiny, Whitman and Brown would have been getting attention anyway. Meg Whitman's first volley harkened back to 1992, when Jerry Brown was running for the Presidency. In an interview with C-SPAN, Bill Clinton criticized Brown's record and quoted a CNN report to back up his charges. The footage, showing Clinton arguing that Brown's record on fiscal management and taxation were lacking, made up the core of Whitman's ad. More recently, C...
In 2010, both United States Senators from California were Democrats. California's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives was made up of 34 Democrats and 19 Republicans. Both the State House and State Senate were controlled by Democratic majorities. The current Governor at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was a Republican. Recent Presidenti...
Governors of the State of California [a] No. Governor Term in office Party Election Lt. Governor [b] 1 Peter Hardeman Burnett: December 20, 1849 [c] – January 9, 1851 (resigned) [d] Democratic: 1849 John McDougal: 2 John McDougal: January 9, 1851 – January 8, 1852 (not candidate for election) Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor: David C ...
No.GovernorGovernorGovernor40January 7, 2019 – present [q]39January 3, 2011 – January 7, 2019 (term ...38November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011 (term ...37January 4, 1999 – November 17, 2003 ...The current governor is Gavin Newsom, who has been in office since 2019. 39 people have served as governor, over 40 distinct terms. Many have been influential nationwide in areas far-flung from state politics. Leland Stanford founded Stanford University in 1891. Earl Warren, later chief justice of the United States, won an election with the ...
No.GovernorGovernorGovernor40Gavin Newsom (b. 1967) [167][168]January 7, 2019[169] – Incumbent [t]39Jerry Brown (b. 1938) [148][164]January 3, 2011[165] – January 7, 2019 ...Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947) ...November 17, 2003[163] – January 3, 2011 ...37January 4, 1999[160] – November 17, 2003 ...54.6%. Larry Aceves. —. 3,476,243. 44.9%. Vote totals are certified election results from the state, where available. County-level figures are the last reported totals from The Associated Press. Live 2010 election results and maps for California, including Senate, Governor, House of Representatives, and statewide ballot measures.
The California state elections, November 2010 were held on November 2, 2010. [2] On a year marked by a strong Republican wave nationwide, the State of California elected Democrats to the state's top offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Controller, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Education, Insurance Commissioner and United ...
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The Democratic candidate is Jerry Brown, a veteran of California politics, who has already been governor (as was his father). Mr. Brown will have the advantage of being a Democrat in a state that is growing increasingly Democratic, while Ms. Whitman was drawn to the right in her attempt to win the Republican primary, particularly on the issue of immigration.
