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STATE Governor Votes Pct. Brown(D) 1,717,16154% Kashkari (R) 599,765 19% Donnelly (R) 467,906 15% Blount (R) 69,330 2% Champ (R) 58,779 2% Rodriguez (G) 45,999 1% Sheehan (PF) 37,516 1% Marie Winston (R) 35,239 1% Newman D 32,196 1% Agbede (D) 27,445 1% Aguirre (R) 26,924 1% Ambrozewicz D 10,819 0% Buycks D 8,879 0% Christian D 8,271 0% Leicht D 6,942 0% Secretary of State Votes Pct. Padilla (D) 884,974 30% Peterson (R) 871,775 30% Yee (D) 287,622 10% Schnur D 263,150 9% Cressman (D) 219,404 7% Allmond (R) 191,597 7% Drobman (D) 135,085 5% Curtis (G) 86,861 3% Superintendent of Public Instruction Votes Pct. Torlakson 1,303,42147% Tuck 795,711 29% Gutierrez 679,258 24% Proposition 42 Open meetings state reimbursement to local agencies Votes Pct. Yes 1,793,95362% No 1,122,57938% U.S. House District 7 Elk Grove Votes Pct. Bera (D) 31,726 47% Ose (R) 18,073 27% Birman (R) 11,386 17% Emken (R) 4,738 7% Tuma (L) 1,011 1% Tufi D 556 1% U.S. House District 52 San Diego Votes Pct. Peters (D) 40,685 42% DeMaio (R) 34,613 36% Jorgensen (R) 17,266 18% Simon (R) 3,838 4% HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES District 1 Redding Votes Pct. La Malfa (R) 54,684 53% Hall (D) 31,303 30% Cheadle (R) 10,038 10% Levine (D) 6,931 7% STATE ASSEMBLY District 3 Yuba City Votes Pct. Gallagher (R) 24,577 43% Reed (D) 19,775 35% Schohr (R) 12,321 22% STATE SENATE District 4 Tehama County Votes Pct. Jim Nielsen 6,055 69.94% Cj Jawahar 2,576 29.76% Electionresults ALEXGALLARDO—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS California Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari speaks at a news conference on Wednesday. Kashkari won his party's primary, advancing to the general election to face Gov. Jerry Brown in November 2014. The Associated Press LOSANGELES TheRepub- lican Party establishment got the candidate for Cal- ifornia governor it wanted in former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari, who squeezed past a tea party- favored state lawmaker to challenge Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown as he seeks an unprecedented fourth term as governor in November. But the Republican cele- bration will be short-lived. The primary contest was seen as a fight for the right to lose to Brown, a popu- lar Democrat in an over- whelmingly liberal state who has a lifetime of expe- rience campaigning in Cal- ifornia. He has more than $21 million in the bank after spending virtually nothing. "The next governor is not going to be a Repub- lican unless something truly groundbreaking hap- pens," said Jessica Levin- son, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. "Jerry Brown is not going to lose. Voters are very fa- miliar with him." Kashkari acknowledged the struggle at a news con- ference Wednesday, but he promised to focus on issues that affect the middle class, such as improving Califor- nia's struggling schools, creating jobs and scrap- ping the $68 billion high- speed rail project. "These issues that I'm speaking about and that I'mpassionateaboutarenot partisan issues. They're is- sues that everybody cares about, and we can abso- lutely unite Republicans as well as many others around the state," Kashkari told re- porters in Corona del Mar, in Orange County. First,though,the40-year- old former Goldman Sachs banker will need to intro- duce himself to a broader swath of voters. Although he greatly outspent his GOP primary rival, Assembly- man Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks in San Bernardino County, Kashkari had only enough money to target a small section of predomi- nantly Republican voters in a low-turnout contest. Brown drew 54.5 per- cent of the vote Tuesday, while Kashkari had 19 per- cent and Donnelly was ap- proaching 15 percent. An- other 13 candidates drew a combined 10.5 percent. Besides his lack of polit- ical experience, Kashkari's biggest liability is likely to be his role leading the un- popular federal bank bail- out from 2008 to 2009. Kashkari to make middle-class appeal Tea Party candidate ousted in top-two primary ELECTION 2014 GOVERNOR By Don Thompson The Associated Press LOS ANGELES California's top-two primary system de- livered Election Day drama in a handful of state legisla- tive contests, including for some former lawmakers who saw their comeback cam- paigns imperiled by Tues- day's low turnout. Former Assemblywoman Betsy Butler was in the mid- dle of the pack among seven Democrats running for the top two spots in Senate Dis- trict 26 in western Los Ange- les County. She trailed sev- eral candidates with results not yet final. They included Sandra Fluke, who gained national attention and an insult from radio commen- tator Rush Limbaugh in 2012 when, as a Georgetown Uni- versity law student, she tes- tified before Congress in fa- vor of requiring employer- provided health insurance to cover birth control. Fluke was running sec- ond behind fellow attorney Ben Allen, a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education. Statewide, tens of thou- sands of vote-by-mail bal- lots delivered late and pro- visional ballots remain to be counted statewide. Alameda and Santa Clara countyvotersseemedunwill- ing to forgive former Dem- ocratic Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi for shoplifting nearly $2,500 worth of cloth- ing from Neiman Marcus in 2011. In preliminary returns, she was trailing both Dem- ocratic Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski and GOP candi- date Peter Kuo, despite the low Republican registration in Senate District 10. Meanwhile, Bonnie Gar- cia, who was termed out of the Assembly in 2008, was in danger of being knocked out of the November runoff election for a new Riverside County seat in Senate Dis- trict 28. Fellow Republican Jeff Stone, a county super- visor, was slightly outpacing the others, including Garcia. The state's new primary system means the top two vote-getters in each race will advance to the Novem- ber election, no matter if they are from the same po- litical party. In addition to featuring several intraparty races, the general election con- tests also will determine whether Democrats main- tain their two-thirds su- permajorities in the Assem- bly and Senate. That allows them to raise taxes unilat- erally, pass emergency leg- islation, put measures on the ballot and override guberna- torial vetoes if they choose. ELECTION 2014 LEGISLATURE Primary imperils a few comeback bids By Dave Collins The Associated Press HARTFORD, CONN. A man who supplied nearly 10 pounds of methamphet- amine to a drug operation run by a Catholic priest dubbed Monsignor Meth was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in prison, telling a judge he was overcome by his addic- tion and never intended to become such a big dealer. Chad McCluskey, 44, of San Clemente, Califor- nia, was sentenced in fed- eral court in Hartford to five years, five months behind bars. He and his girlfriend, KristenLaschober,ofLaguna Niguel, California, pleaded guilty last year to drug con- spiracy charges connected to their meth business with now-suspended Monsignor Kevin Wallin. Laschober awaits sentencing. Wallin, nicknamed Mon- signor Meth in some media reports, also pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge and awaits sentencing. He is fac- ing 11 to 14 years in prison for selling large quantities of meth out of his apartment in Waterbury. Two other men pleaded guilty to help- ing Wallin sell the drugs in Connecticut. "I would like to apologize to the court for my conduct and to the communities I've hurt," McCluskey said in court, crying at times. "And to my friends who stood by me ... and to my family. ... I didn't think it was going to be a business, and my addiction got so heavy that my judg- ment was clouded. ... I never set out to be a drug dealer." Authorities said McClus- key started sending small amounts of meth to Wallin in early 2009, and the operation grew before it ended in late 2012, shortly before everyone wasarrested.Federalofficials sayMcCluskeyandLaschober sent 1 to 3 pounds a month to Wallin over six months. Mc- Cluskey also admitted dis- tributing at least 12 pounds of meth to drug sellers in an- other part of the country. McCluskey grew up near Chicago, graduated from Drake Universityin Iowaand heldgoodjobsbeforehisdrug addiction did him in, said his lawyer, Todd Bussert. Wallin, 62, had been the pastor at St. Augustine Par- ish in Bridgeport for nine years before resigning in 2011, citing health and per- sonal problems. He previ- ously served as pastor of St. Peter's Church in Danbury. The Diocese of Bridgeport indefinitely revoked Wallin's priest powers in 2012. 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