California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Wilson Sets Special Elections

Gov. Pete Wilson scheduled special elections on March 2 in portions of Northern, Central and Southern California to fill three empty legislative seats. Voters will fill vacancies left by the resignations of Sen. Barry Keene (D-Ukiah) and Assemblyman Bruce Bronzan (D-Fresno) and by Sen. Don Rogers’ move to a new district. Rogers (R-Tehachapi) won a vacant seat in the Nov. 3 election to avoid having to seek reelection in 1994 in a district made heavily Democratic by reapportionment. Keene, a former Senate majority leader, and Bronzan, chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, left in mid-December--Keene to become president of the Assn. for California Tort Reform and Bronzan to become a University of California administrator. If no one wins a majority of the vote in the special elections, runoffs will be held on April 27 among the top vote-getters in each party. The winners will serve the remainder of unexpired terms that end in December, 1994.