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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For those of you who aren’t on the ABATE Discussion List, here’s some of the election results from Jim Lombardo. Please note the <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>yellow</span> highlighted results below for SD39, San Diego. This is going to be VERY important that we get some help for Plescia. Please be prepared to help in some way…we will keep you posted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As many of you might have noticed, Denise Ducheny lost her bid for Congress. It really was expected that she’d run off against Juan Vargas. Denise sent a nice thank you note to Local 6 for their support…she has always been our friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Let’s try to gear up this time and help with the elections in November. We can only get what we need (or don’t want) for the Biker Community by electing politicians that will help us! That won’t happen without some help from those who will be affected by the good or bad legislation affecting us….wait, that’s us…we need to help!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> abate_ca@googlegroups.com [mailto:abate_ca@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Walsh<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> 2012officers@abate.org; abatepac@abate.org; abate_ca@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [ABATE] Primary Election Results<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>From the desk (phone?) of Jim Lombardo:</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><br><br><span class=ecxapple-tab-span> </span>The June Election is behind us, now, and ABATE's candidates did pretty well in the new format — top two finishers go on to the November General California Primary Election.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>The results show clear, <b><i>BLACK & WHITE</i></b> choices for November.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>In the Senate Races:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>SD 5: Assemblyman Bill Berryhill (100% good ABATE voting record) will face off against Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani (0% good ABATE voting record over 6 years). Galgiani voted against our helmet law repeal bills when she got the chance.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>SD 27: Motorcycle rider/Vet Todd Zink received more votes than long-time incumbent Fran Pavely, who carried the motorcycle smog check/noise fine bill. It looks like the newly-drawn district that includes Simi Valley voters doesn't like Pavley. See me and Todd together on the front cover of the latest issue of the <i>Bailing Wire</i>.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>SD 31: Assemblyman and motorcycle rider Jeff Miller, who has been great on motorcyclist issues, will run against businessman Richard Roth in the Riverside area. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>SD 39: In San Diego, former Republican leader George Plescia, long-time ABATE issue supporter (and staffer to former Assemblyman and Senator Bill Morrow) will face Assemblyman Marty Block for this Senate seat. George is going to need a <b><i>LOT</i></b> of help from San Diego-area ABATE members to win this one!</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>The Assembly Races:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>AD 3: No Cal Assemblyman Dan Logue (he carried a helmet law repealer for ABATE) beat back fellow Republican, Bob Williams, with help from Jeff Katen (Local 33) and Capitol Coffee Shop owner, Gary Haller.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>AD 33: A big win for Tim Donnelly, in whose district our state office is. He beat back Republican primary challenger Bill Jahn and should go on to win in November. Thanks to our own Carol Cromwell, Tina, Nick Benson, Local 44 and all of the other ABATE members that helped to make that happen!</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>AD 47: In Rialto, Former Assemblyman, and 100% ABATE Supporter, Joe Baca, Jr. will face fellow Democrat Cheryl Brown in November.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>AD 74: Alan Mansoor (R–Irvine) received more votes than fellow Republican Leslie Daigle and will run against Democrat Robert Rush in November.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>Congressional Races:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>CD 8: Greg Imus, significantly supported by Nick Benson, and the high desert and area Locals, beat a field of 11 Republican and Democrat challengers and will face fellow Republican Assemblyman Paul Cook in November. Both are ABATE endorsed.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>CD 10: Motorcycle rider Jeff Denham from Modesto will face Jose Hernandez in a highly contested November race that the Democrats need to win to take back their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>CD 35: Long-time 100% ABATE supporter, Joe Baca, Sr. will run against fellow Democrat Gloria Negrete McLeod (0% ABATE Support) in Ontario.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>CD 31: Here's another <i>can't lose</i> race for ABATE. Motorcycle rider incumbent Gary Miller and state Senator Bob Dutton, both ABATE-endorsed, will face each other in November for this Inland Empire House seat.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>Riverside County Supervisor's Race Update:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>Current Assembly Transportation Vice Chairman and author of our motorcycle checkpoint only repeal bill, AB 1047, Kevin Jeffries, will face incumbent Supervisor Bob Buster in a November runoff.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>These are just the highest profile races and the tip of the iceberg. I will be reporting on more in my <i>Bailing Wire</i> article this month. Be sure to plan to attend July's ABATE Board Meeting and PAC Meeting in Southern California. We will go over every race, and if we have enough questionnaires returned from candidates on whom we don't know their motorcycle-issue related positions, we can make some more endorsements and lay out an ABATE action plan for the November election.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecxapple-tab-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'>—Jim Lombardo </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkslateblue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ABATE Discussion" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:abate_ca@googlegroups.com">abate_ca@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:abate_ca+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">abate_ca+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/abate_ca?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/abate_ca?hl=en</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>