SD-28: Special Election Set For Feb 15, 2011

California State Senate District #28

The Governor has set a special election date of February 15, 2011 to fill the 28th District State Senate seat occupied by the late Jenny Oropeza who was posthumously re-elected in November.

Former Assemblyman Ted Lieu (AD-53) is the frontrunner for the seat, having announced more than a month ago. Lieu was termed out of his Assembly seat and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General. The special election is somewhat controversial, because it will be the first election to be  held using Proposition 14's "Top 2" open primary structure. Every voter in a primary will get the same ballot, and the top 2 votegetters will go to the general election. In the February 15th election if no candidate gets a majority then the Top 2 will run-off on April 19th.