[Marxism] CA Candidate's 2nd Place Finish Elates Green Party

["aaron amaral" <amaral1871@xxxxxxxxx>]

<http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-oconnell9jun09,0,260049.story?coll=la-headlines-politics>

> From the Los Angeles Times
Candidate's 2nd Place Finish Elates Green Party
By Mitchell Landsberg
Times Staff Writer

June 9, 2006

As state superintendent of public instruction, Jack O'Connell had the
power of incumbency in his reelection bid — that, and an untapped,
$1-million campaign fund, which was about $1 million more than all
four of his little-known challengers could muster collectively.

O'Connell is an amiable and well-liked figure, and had been in the
news recently for accomplishing one of his major goals in office:
requiring students to pass an exit exam to graduate from high school.

So why, with all that going for him, did O'Connell come within 2
percentage points in Tuesday's primary of getting thrown into a fall
runoff? And how is it that his top challenger was a Los Angeles public
schoolteacher and Green Party activist whose campaign biography
identifies her as a member of the International Socialist Organization?

Not only did Sarah Knopp come close to forcing O'Connell into a
statewide fall runoff, but she got more votes than any Green Party
member has ever gotten in a California election — in fact, party
officials said, more than any Green has ever gotten in any statewide
race in the country...

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