The eyes of Sacramento were pointed due south this week with the
elections for various offices in Los Angeles, despite the paltry
turnout of less than 20 percent of voters there.  That's because
several members of the Legislature were running for offices
there and those races create a musical chairs effect of open
seats and - more importantly - more challenges for the
Legislature's supermajority.  The Democrats in the state Senate
already lost their two-thirds majority when Sen. Michael Rubio,
D-Shafter (Kern County), resigned his seat last month. There are
26 Democrats and three open seats in the Senate and a two-thirds
requires 27 Democrats. They could gain that back in the coming
week, though, as special elections are scheduled to fill the two
Senate seats that became vacant when those members resigned
after winning congressional bids.  Problem is, two members of
the Assembly are running for those open Senate seats, and if
both win outright - by garnering more than 50 percent of the
vote and thus eliminati