Elections and other stuff

The city council race ended in a surprise, at least on one front: the 27 year old Safeway bagger and UCD linguistics lecturer, Lamar Heystek, cruised to a second place finish, behind the mayor. Those two will be on the city council, along with three others who were not up for election this time. It was a very close race, with just 300 votes separating the 1st and 4th place finishers.

Dan and I were disappointed that Phil Angelides beat Steve Westly in the gubernatorial primary. We doubt Angelides can beat Schwarzenegger, but we thought Westly would have a shot.

However, we were delighted that Measure G, the local parks tax, passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. Our family are great users of the Davis parks and we're happy to help fund their upkeep.

Last night I started reading Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb, who is running for Senate in Virginia. The book tells the history of the Scots-Irish and their emigration. It's pretty interesting, sort of along the lines of one component of Albion's Seed. I noticed Webb referenced Albion's Seed in the notes.