Watch (or Listen): Emergency Pre-Election Edition - Intel and Wrap-Ups for Gov, Assessor, Supes, Judicial Races
In a special Three-Amigos episode, Josh and Nick join Jerry to break down the latest on the news-making, high-profile campaigns for the June 2 primary.
A deluge of final polling in the California governor’s race shows Republican Steve Hilton and Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer locked in a three-way race that will send one of them home and two of them to a November runoff.
In Santa Barbara County, the big stories in Tuesday’s primary election will be who moves on to the general election in the wide-open contest for the Fifth District seat on the Board of Supervisors — among independents Maribel Aguilera and Cory Bantilan and Democrat Ricardo Valencia — and whether embattled six-term incumbent Joe Holland survives a fierce challenge from Melinda Green for the post of (breathe) Assessor-Clerk-Recorder-Voter Registrar.
Thirty-six hours before the first results come in, Josh Molina of the News-Press and the Independent’s Nick Welsh (despite serious struggles with his computer’s balky camera!) — who have closely covered one of the weirder election seasons in memory — join the genial host to break down the developments, latest campaign intel and political gossip, and to help explain why all of it matters.
Plus: what’s behind a surprising bid to unseat a long-sitting local judge, that city ballot measure you’ve never heard of, and a fearless forecast for at least one key race.
All this and more, right here, right now in a special pre-election episode of Newsmakers TV.
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