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Proposition 25, which was approved by the people of California in the
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for the party nomination by a percentage of 56.5% to Chan's 43.5%. She was overwhelmingly elected to the State Senate with 77.3% of the vote in
November. Hancock was sworn in as a State Senator on December 1, 2008.
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in 1986. Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the
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and its continued use posed a serious safety hazard. After more than a decade of planning and construction, the Bridge's new eastern span opened for public use in 2013.
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