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Run off shaping up in superintendent of public instruction race
- 06-09-2010
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Blog by Dan Smith/Capitol Alert
It appears that no candidate will have the 50 percent needed to win the state school chief's job outright, but Larry Aceves and Tom Torlakson are leading in early returns. The two top vote-getters in the nonpartisan race will advance to the November general election. With 12 percent of the statewide vote counted, Aceves had 21 percent to Torlakson's 18 percent. Sen. Gloria Romero is running third with 14 percent of the vote. All three leading candidates - Torlakson, a Democratic assemblyman from Pittsburg, Romero, D-Los Angeles, and former school superintendent Aceves - saw their campaigns waged largely by others through independent expenditure committees. (more...)
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