CA: AIP Candidate Polls 4% in First Round of Special Election for State Assembly Seat

From Mercury News:

In Riverside County, Republican Assemblyman Bill Emmerson led the field of seven candidates in the 37th Senate District race Tuesday. Emmerson, 64, led with 41 percent of the vote. He will face American Independent Party candidate Matt Monica, 65, a Desert Sands school board member and Democrat Justin Blake, 56, an actor endorsed by the Democratic Party, in the June 8 runoff.Republican businessman Russ Bogh followed Emmerson with 22 percent of the vote. Blake was third with 14 percent. Monica had four percent. Special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats in Southern California are both headed to runoffs.