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...thirds quorum for a no-confidence vote. Every time the opposition majority tried to vote him out, Senaga's twelve assemblymen simply walked out of the meeting. When the opposition tried physically to prevent Senaga's men from leaving, they took to the windows; one Senaga assemblyman once left his trousers behind in the tight clutch of an anti-Senaga assemblyman who had tried to stop...
...Billy's Done It." Bill's first try for public office came in 1932, when he ran for state assemblyman in the same district his father had represented. In Republican Alameda, the payoff was in the primary, and it was a hard four-way fight. On election night tough old J.R., weeping tears of delight, went around to all his friends to boast: "Billy's done it!" As the youngest (25) member of the state assembly, Billy sponsored successful legislation that ranged from an anti-lynching bill to one that protected cactus. Two years later, again following...
...district after district, rosy-cheeked freshmen are giving oldtimers the closest shaves of their lives. California's Eleventh District is a case in point. There, seven-term Republican Representative Leroy Johnson, 68, is hard pressed by 38-year-old Democratic State Assemblyman John J. McFall. Incum bent Johnson, World War I combat pilot, is running mostly on his House seniority and is reliving his long past ("I don't think they should have killed the League of Nations"). Challenger McFall is running on his own energies and ambitions, and, like many another Demo cratic House candidate...
...reply, Kuchel whose political patrons include such big names as Chief Justice Earl Warren and Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, has merely pointed to his record as a hardworking, honest public servant (state assemblyman state controller, U.S. Senator). If California voters decide on the basis of talk, Dick Richards has a good chance. If they decide on performance, Nice Guy Tommy Kuchel will go back to Washington...
...salary of an assemblyman would be more than triple what Cella now earns as a teaching fellow. The recent pay raise for teaching fellows did not affect the unmarried Cella, even though he supports his mother, brother, and sister...