Judy Chu’s lopsided win in Tuesday’s special election to fill the 32nd district seat in Congress means that her job as the Long Beach area’s representative on the State Board of Equalization will be opening.
The Los Angeles Times has the story.
Later Wednesday, the District Weekly will have a story about how this might impact the local political scene.

Nothing says ‘I love you’ like hundreds of thousands of dollars
The L.A. Times prints a love story today. State Board of Equalization member Bill Leonard loves to give corporations tax breaks. Many corporations looking for breaks from the board love to “pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into a tiny Sacramento-area nonprofit where Leonard’s wife [...]