On Local Government
The political black hole With his loss in the California Attorney General’s race, Steve Cooley has joined a large number of Los Angeles County District Attorneys who have found that moving up in the political world is a mere pipe dream. In fact, the last Los Angeles DA to gain higher office was John Van de Kamp, who was elected California Attorney General in 1982. Since then, Robert Philobosian, Ira Reiner, Gil Garcetti and now Steve Cooley have all failed to make the move from downtown LA to upstate Sacramento. However, for Cooley, the disappointment must be the most frustrating. He had, after all, won election and reelection by substantial margins as a Republican in a very Democratic county. So, he must have thought he had the advantage over San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris since she would have to make up the votes that a Democrat would normally expect to get from LA. he calculus didn’t work, however, because of a very basic difference between those elections. In the DA elections, the candidates run without party designation. Therefore, the voters didn’t add that element into their decision. But, the state race is based on party and people who may not have known…
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