Live from The Sacramento Bee, It's Election Night.

The country was rocked by recession this year and the state was crippled by an ongoing cash crunch, but lawmakers still kept the money flowing to their campaign coffers.

Despite projections that the next governor will inherit multibillion-dollar deficits, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner on Tuesday promised to slash taxes on personal income, corporations and sales.
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As the titans of Silicon Valley built their empires in the 1990s, many of them viewed politics as a prosaic world apart from their gleaming campuses churning out the latest innovations.
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Lt. Gov. John Garamendi won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to fill Ellen Tauscher's seat in the 10th Congressional District, according to results from all of the district's 176 precincts.
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Gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner trekked out to the California State Fair on Thursday hoping to stir some excitement for his campaign.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Tuesday that she supports toughening federal enforcement on employers who hire illegal immigrants and also expanding guest worker programs for farmworkers and highly skilled immigrants.

Election Results

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Prop 1A
(spending caps, taxes)
Yes 34.2%
No 65.8%
Prop 1B
(payments to schools)
Yes 37.5%
No 62.5%
Prop 1C
(lottery borrowing)
Yes 35.4%
No 64.6%
Prop 1D
(diverting child development funds)
Yes 34.3%
No 65.7%
Prop 1E
(reallocating mental health funds)
Yes 33.6%
No 66.4%
Prop 1F
(elected official pay)
Yes 74.0%
No 26.0%

100.0% of precincts reporting

Source: the California Secretary of State's office

Proposition 1A

Voters will decide whether to place long-term spending restrictions on state government and extend already-approved taxes up to two years.

Proposition 1B

Voters will decide whether the state should pay schools $9.3 billion education advocates believe is owed.

Proposition 1C

Voters will decide whether to make changes to lottery games and allow the state to borrow $5 billion or more against projected future earnings.

Proposition 1D

Voters will decide whether to shift a portion of voter-approved funds for certain early childhood development programs administered by First 5 to pay for other programs instead.

Proposition 1E

Voters would decide whether to temporarily transfer voter-approved funds for mental health programs collected under Proposition 63 to cover other mental health services supported by the state's general fund.

Proposition 1F

Voters are asked to decide whether, in certain cases, to eliminate salary hikes for legislators, the governor and other elected state officials when the state's general fund is expected to end the year with a deficit.
The Sacramento Bee's editorial board offers its opinions on the statewide propositions.

Proposition 1A

Proposition 1B

Proposition 1C

Proposition 1D

Proposition 1E

Proposition 1F

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