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Odds and ends from Tuesday’s aftermath:
- State GOP chairman Tom Del Beccaro looks over the Republican carnage and proclaims that California has “moved further to the left.”
- One green issue San Francisco voters didn’t want to consider: draining Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley as a source of their drinking water.
- Assemblywoman and convicted shoplifter Mary Hayashi’s poor showing for Alameda County supervisor may not have ended her political ambitions, but it put to rest jokes about her stealing the election.
- Progressive meltdown: With London Breed the apparent winner in District 5, San Francisco’s most liberal enclave sent a moderate to City Hall.
- Republican Elizabeth Emken of Danville may have been trounced by Dianne Feinstein, but she did better than any DiFi challenger in a long time.
- Another reason for Jerry Brown to crow about Prop 30’s passage: all that money the shadowy Arizona group spent trying to defeat the measure instead galvanized supporters.
- Had he won, Mitt Romney apparently planned an eight-minute celebratory fireworks show over Boston Harbor.
- Oakland routs: Barbara Parker’s thrashing of four-term councilwoman Jane Brunner for city attorney; Rebecca Kaplan’s easy win over Ignacio De La Fuente to defend her at-large council seat.
- Big Soda, aka the American Beverage Association, which poured in $2.5 million, got what it paid for: defeat of Richmond’s would-be tax on sugar-sweetened drinks.
- C. W. Nevius on how Mayor Ed Lee came up smelling like a rose.
- Once again, San Francisco’s vote counting apparatus plods along with Florida-like slowness.
- Coming out of the election, the sales tax in Half Moon Bay goes to 9.5 percent, among the state’s highest.
- Three states—Maine, Maryland and Washington—became the first to establish gay marriage rights by popular vote.
- Despite dire warnings from the East Bay Zoological Society, voters rejected a parcel tax to maintain and expand the Oakland Zoo.
- Fun post-election speculation: Ashley Judd’s being mentioned as a possible Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 2014.
