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April 30, 2008
Schwarzenegger: Junkets help small-town legislators
Published 03:50 PM Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
Helping or hurting? Log Cabin releases GOP endorsements
Published 01:34 PM Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 29, 2008
Rosselli calls lawsuit ‘PR circus’ and ‘hoax’
Published 02:07 PM Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Sal Rosselli, the president of the California chapter of SEIU targeted in a lawsuit by the union’s national leadership, said Tuesday the suit is a “political hoax to smear us.”
“The lawsuit and the PR circus around it are a hoax perpetrated on you, the press, and our members in order to smear us and shut down the Stern team’s political opposition,” Rosselli said in an interview Tuesday. ... (more) | Comments
“The lawsuit and the PR circus around it are a hoax perpetrated on you, the press, and our members in order to smear us and shut down the Stern team’s political opposition,” Rosselli said in an interview Tuesday. ... (more) | Comments
SEIU sues California chapter in growing battle
Published 11:38 AM Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Dems demand Schwarzenegger prison plan
Published 09:07 AM Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 28, 2008
Senate to take up Perata mortgage bill
Published 11:27 AM Monday, April 28, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Schwarzenegger again offers casinos as eco solution
Published 10:56 AM Monday, April 28, 2008 by Peter S. Hecht
April 25, 2008
State GOP upset with Placer over McClintock endorsement
Published 04:10 PM Friday, April 25, 2008 by Peter S. Hecht
Friends again?
Published 12:25 PM Friday, April 25, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
Apparently, you can bite the hand that feeds you and still get fed. A week ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed the Bush administration as obstructionists in reducing global warming. This morning, he stood with the U.S. Department of Transportation secretary to accept $213 million in federal funds for more toll lanes and transit.
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Perata, Schwarzenegger in parole board fight
Published 10:20 AM Friday, April 25, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 24, 2008
Denham files criminal complaint against Perata
Published 11:07 AM Thursday, April 24, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 23, 2008
Remap drive hits magic number, backers say
Published 11:09 AM Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Jim Sanders
April 22, 2008
Wilson goes No on 98
Published 04:17 PM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Former Gov. Pete Wilson announced his opposition today to Proposition 98, one of two competing eminent-domain initiatives on the June 3 ballot.
"Proposition 98 poses serious risk that it can be used to obstruct for years the development of critically and urgently needed water resources to California," he said in a written statement. "That is simply an unacceptable risk." ... (more) | Comments
"Proposition 98 poses serious risk that it can be used to obstruct for years the development of critically and urgently needed water resources to California," he said in a written statement. "That is simply an unacceptable risk." ... (more) | Comments
Governor's green week
Published 01:32 PM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
To celebrate Earth Day, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared Tuesday at the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve in Orange County, 40,000 acres of which the state has designated as California's first state Natural Landmark. As with his stop Monday at a dedication ceremony for the Saban Free Clinic in Los Angeles, the... ... (more) | Comments
Maldonado: 'It is about time' for lower salaries
Published 12:55 PM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Sen. Abel Maldonado was the first lawmaker to cheer today's discussions at the Citizens Compensation Commission, where the commission considered cutting legislative salaries.
"It is about time that the Citizens Compensation Commission decreased our salaries," said Maldonado in a statement. ... (more) | Comments
"It is about time that the Citizens Compensation Commission decreased our salaries," said Maldonado in a statement. ... (more) | Comments
Greener than thou
Published 10:24 AM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Today is Earth Day and the Los Angeles Times has a fun story race to be green between San Francisco and Los Angeles. ... (more) | Comments
Gay marriage ban headed to the ballot
Published 10:16 AM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
CalChamber think-tank inches toward taxes
Published 10:15 AM Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 21, 2008
Gov's giving to remap measure tops $1 million
Published 10:26 AM Monday, April 21, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reported contributing another $700,000 to help qualify a redistricting measure for the November ballot, bringing his total donations made to the measure to $1.26 million.
Schwarzenegger is the largest donor to the campaign so far, which has amassed $2.14 million, largely tapping Schwarzenegger’s own donor network. ... (more) | Comments
Schwarzenegger is the largest donor to the campaign so far, which has amassed $2.14 million, largely tapping Schwarzenegger’s own donor network. ... (more) | Comments
Schwarzenegger attends Saban clinic opening
Published 09:50 AM Monday, April 21, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Senate chaplain takes new post
Published 09:13 AM Monday, April 21, 2008 by Dan Walters
James Richardson, a former Sacramento Bee political reporter who became an Episcopal minister and chaplain of the state Senate, is leaving Sacramento for a church in Charlottesville, VA. "It is with great delight, and a few butterflies in the stomach, that I tell you that I have accepted the call... ... (more) | Comments
April 18, 2008
GOP financier of measures heads to rehab
Published 09:34 AM Friday, April 18, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Republican financier Henry Nicholas, who has donated nearly $6 million to two law-and-order ballot measures in 2008, has checked into rehab at the Betty Ford Center, according to a statement provided by his lawyer.
Nicholas, who ranked 47th on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest billionaires with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, “has been drinking too heavily” following the death of his father, according to the statement from his personal attorney, Bill Hake. ... (more) | Comments
Nicholas, who ranked 47th on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest billionaires with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, “has been drinking too heavily” following the death of his father, according to the statement from his personal attorney, Bill Hake. ... (more) | Comments
April 17, 2008
April 16, 2008
More help from Bloomberg
Published 10:41 AM Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken a keen interest in how California draws its political boundaries, already chipping in a quarter-million-dollar donation to finance a redistricting measure for the Nov. 4 ballot. Now Bloomberg plans to host a Thursday night fundraiser for the governor's "California Dream Team" political... ... (more) | Comments
Dick Ackerman looks back – and ahead
Published 09:35 AM Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
One day, one city, two candidates and tens of thousands of dollars
Published 09:25 AM Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Video: Schwarzenegger on opposing same sex marriage measure
Published 09:20 AM Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 15, 2008
Weak company profits hurting state
Published 03:43 PM Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by Judy Lin
The state Finance Department's latest cash report reveals just how much guesswork goes into the budget. The state is down $1.2 billion in revenues so far this year, most of it due to the corporate tax. The Schwarzenegger administration had assumed that many companies elected to forgo early tax payments... ... (more) | Comments
Lakers girl...Karen Bass?
Published 11:25 AM Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
The game starts at 7:30 p.m. and the invite asks for early RSVPs because "due to capacity of the Luxury suite, tickets are limited." ... (more) | Comments
No car, but a $18,099 raise
Published 09:29 AM Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Members of the San Diego City Council voted to increase their salaries by 24 percent on Monday, while scrapping a car allowance for themselves.
Salaries will rise from $75,386 a year to $93,485. ... (more) | Comments
Salaries will rise from $75,386 a year to $93,485. ... (more) | Comments
Maria Shriver's new book
Published 08:53 AM Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Maria Shriver, the first lady of California, has authored a slim new book titled "Just Who Will You Be?" in which she discusses her own transition from successful journalist to being known as the wife of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"My career was gone and with it went the person I'd been for twenty-five years," she writes of life following Schwarzenegger election in the 2003 recall. ... (more) | Comments
April 14, 2008
And the winners are ...
Published 05:32 PM Monday, April 14, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
Assemblyman Dave Jones can breathe a sigh of relief. He didn't win a seat as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Jones' name was still on the ballot Sunday as an Obama delegate contender in the 5th Congressional District, but he withdrew because he said he wanted volunteers... ... (more) | Comments
Assembly candidate gets the 'boot'
Published 05:11 PM Monday, April 14, 2008 by Jim Sanders
West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon is "running" for the Assembly, but the term has nothing to do with his vehicle getting booted Monday for his failure to pay parking tickets. He solved that problem quickly. Cabaldon said that shortly after his vehicle was disabled in downtown Sacramento by a... ... (more) | Comments
Ng joins Team Poizner
Published 02:06 PM Monday, April 14, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Darrel Ng, a former communications aide to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson, is back in Sacramento, now working in the communications shop of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. The last we heard from Ng, he had founded the official (and light-hearted) Boycott Chuck Norris Web site, citing... ... (more) | Comments
Villaraigosa to give State of the City
Published 09:36 AM Monday, April 14, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 11, 2008
Nuñez to MTA's Snoble: Resign
Published 10:05 AM Friday, April 11, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez called on Roger Snoble, the head of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to resign after the latest allocation of transportation bond dollars left Los Angeles "shortchange(d)."
So much for allocating those dollars without politics. ... (more) | Comments
So much for allocating those dollars without politics. ... (more) | Comments
Schwarzenegger to address Log Cabin convention
Published 09:29 AM Friday, April 11, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 10, 2008
Survivor: Obama
Published 01:03 PM Thursday, April 10, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
There were plenty of losers in this week's Obama delegate lottery, as we pointed out Thursday, more than 800 in all. Among those Obama booted from running as his delegates this weekend were the president of the California Young Democrats, a blogger for Calitics and the University of California, Davis... ... (more) | Comments
New York has a new state budget
Published 12:59 PM Thursday, April 10, 2008 by Dan Walters
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators have barely begun to address California's deficit-ridden state budget, but the New York Legislature adopted a $122 billion budget Wednesday – and that gives Steve Maviglio, top spokesman for Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, an opportunity to complain. ... (more) | Comments
Bloomberg backs, donates 250k to redistricting
Published 10:57 AM Thursday, April 10, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 09, 2008
Animal-rights measure makes '08 ballot
Published 04:16 PM Wednesday, April 09, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
An initiative to prevent farm animals from being confined in spaces so small that they can't lie down, stand up or turn around has qualified for the November ballot.
The Humane Society of the United States funded the signature-gathering effort for the measure, donating more than $1.4 million to the campaign. ... (more) | Comments
The Humane Society of the United States funded the signature-gathering effort for the measure, donating more than $1.4 million to the campaign. ... (more) | Comments
On the Web on Wednesday
Published 11:31 AM Wednesday, April 09, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, comes out against legislation to prevent the state's pension funds from investing in certain private equity funds to try to prevent human rights violations. Schwarzenegger writes: In 2006, we divested from Sudan because of its role in the... ... (more) | Comments
Back to the future, Salinas vs. Denham
Published 09:53 AM Wednesday, April 09, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 08, 2008
California Labor Fed backs Migden, other Dems
Published 04:46 PM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Dan Smith
The California Labor Federation threw its weight behind Sen. Carole Migden in her three-way primary re-election fight and tapped dozens of other candidates -- mostly Democrats -- with official endorsements today. Endorsements in competitive LA-area seats mirrored the Los Angeles Fed's choices announced several weeks ago and reported here. The... ... (more) | Comments
Labor eyes speaker’s funds
Published 04:33 PM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
The California Labor Federation unanimously approved a resolution Monday urging Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez to return $4 million from the state Democratic Party that should go toward helping other Democratic candidates, Capitol Weekly is reporting.
UPDATED: Steve Maviglio of the speaker’s offices says the resolution doesn’t specifically call on the speaker to return the funds. He said the resolution only urges the speaker to put the money toward electing Democratic candidates. ... (more) | Comments
UPDATED: Steve Maviglio of the speaker’s offices says the resolution doesn’t specifically call on the speaker to return the funds. He said the resolution only urges the speaker to put the money toward electing Democratic candidates. ... (more) | Comments
Filmdom unions win in Capitol
Published 03:58 PM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Dan Walters
Two factions of the overwhelmingly Democratic motion picture industry - management and labor - fought it out before the state Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, and the writers' and actors' unions won. The committee, by a 3-1 vote, approved a bill by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, that's aimed at outlawing... ... (more) | Comments
Schwarzenegger: My kids think I'm strange
Published 12:46 PM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes his kids to think he's a bit kooky - and more for his parenting skills than for making a male-pregnancy film like "Junior." "The kids should always be a little bit thrown off," Schwarzenegger said. "They say, 'My father's a little odd.' My kids always say,... ... (more) | Comments
Swanson spins off from Kaufman
Published 11:15 AM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Judy Lin
Political consultant Robin Swanson has left her boss to launch her own firm, Swanson Communications. Swanson says "it was time" after working 6-1/2 years in Gale Kaufman's shop, Kaufman Campaign Consultants, where she was named a "rising star" by Campaigns and Elections magazine. Prior to that, she worked on Capitol... ... (more) | Comments
Tibet protests continue in SF, Feinstein weighs in
Published 10:19 AM Tuesday, April 08, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 07, 2008
Ex-Assemblyman Joe Shell dies
Published 01:52 PM Monday, April 07, 2008 by Dan Walters
Joe Shell, who served in the state Assembly for 10 years before running for governor in 1962 - and being defeated for the Republican nomination by Richard Nixon - died at his Bakersfield home Monday. He was 89. Shell, a World War II combat pilot and independent oilman, was elected... ... (more) | Comments
April 04, 2008
Barney Frank, South Africa change Devin Nunes' mind
Published 09:35 AM Friday, April 04, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
April 03, 2008
State workers gone wild (2007 edition)
Published 09:30 AM Thursday, April 03, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
The California State Auditor released its semi-annual report on abuses by state workers, which includes a $592 meal for employees at the Chancellor’s Office of the California State University, 727 hours on unaccounted leave costing $18,000 at the Department of Justice and a drunk employee at the Employment Development Department. ... (more) | Comments
April 02, 2008
Would-be Denham challenger drops out
Published 04:34 PM Wednesday, April 02, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
No loopholes 'merit' closing?
Published 09:41 AM Wednesday, April 02, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
If you want to see just how polarized the debate in California is over taxes, look no further than today's column by Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' Association, in the Orange County Register.
In fact, look no further than the headline, which reads, "No tax loopholes merit closing." ... (more) | Comments
In fact, look no further than the headline, which reads, "No tax loopholes merit closing." ... (more) | Comments
April 01, 2008
Assembly limits travel costs
Published 04:20 PM Tuesday, April 01, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
As part of the effort to trim the Legislature's budget, the Assembly announced in an e-mail to lower house offices that each would have a maximum $350 monthly travel budget for staff. That includes "district mileage reimbursements, per diem, airfare, tolls, parking" and other travel costs. The Assembly has also... ... (more) | Comments
Tsakopoulos hosts Clinton caucus
Published 02:35 PM Tuesday, April 01, 2008 by Kevin Yamamura
Somewhat fittingly, the local 5th Congressional District caucus to pick Sen. Hillary Clinton delegates will be held at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, named after Sacramento developer Angelo K. Tsakopoulos, a longtime Clinton donor. The California Democratic Party has announced sites for most of the 106 caucuses that will take place... ... (more) | Comments
Migden wins in court
Published 01:42 PM Tuesday, April 01, 2008 by Shane Goldmacher
San Francisco Sen. Carole Migden won a preliminary injunction in federal court today for the right to use $647,000 in campaign funds.
Aurelio Rojas has the full story. ... (more) | Comments
Aurelio Rojas has the full story. ... (more) | Comments
Governor declares Denham recall election for June 3
Published 11:09 AM Tuesday, April 01, 2008 by Judy Lin
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today set a special recall election for June 3 in Sen. Jeff Denham's 12th Senate District. Denham, a Central Valley Republican, ticked off Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata when he helped prolong a 52-day budget standoff. The state Democratic Party and a committee tied to Perata... ... (more) | Comments
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