The best thing in the world about CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen is that the best way to reach her is through her Facebook page. So she got back to me pretty quickly when I asked about this delegate situation. I was wrong about a couple things. The vote has not been certified, although […]
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On Wednesday, Tyrone Freeman of SEIU-ULTCW wrote a letter that sdpolitico blogged here. UHW’s blog has a full roundup of the letters. They have the PDFs of the letter that Mr. Freeman sent to UHW, the letter he sent to all of UHW’s email list, the UHW negotiating team’s response, and and the UHW executive […]
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So, next week I’m headed to DC, in part to attend the Take Back America Convention. If you’re interested in making the trek out to DC, you can register here.
Congrats to Bill Foster, who claimed a pretty darn Republican seat in IL-14, Dennis Hastert’s old seat. Charlie Cook had it at R+5. For those keeping […]
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A few weeks back I brought you the story of the Quaker teacher who was fired by Cal State East Bay for altering the state’s ridiculous loyalty oath to conform to her religious beliefs. Today’s LA Times reports that she has happily won her job back - with help from her fellow teachers, her union, […]
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Congressional Democrats are now trying to move legislation that would overturn the EPA’s anti-scientific decision which denied California a waiver to regulate their own tailpipe emissions. Arnold Schwarzenegger is suing the EPA. It seems that the only group of people who aren’t on board with this policy are Republican members of Congress.
Most GOP members of […]
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David Lazarus is showing to Southern Californians what Bay Area readers already knew: the man really understands the problems facing working Californians, and is not afraid to write about them directly and engagingly. In January he took on Prop 13 and called for it to be revamped, if not scrapped. Today he has shifted his […]
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California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero and celebrated labor leader and civil rights champion Dolores Huerta endorse Manuel Perez, Candidate for the 80th Assembly District.
“I feel honored beyond words”, says Mr. Perez, “to have received this support from two of California’s most distinguished leaders. Both Dolores Huerta and Senator Romero have worked hard for those […]
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UPDATE: I tracked down that video report on the SD-03 race from NBC 11. I moved some stuff over the flip to make room.
Last week, Senator Carole Migden sued the FPPC, alleging that Proposition 34 was unconstitutional. Interestingly, in 2000, when in the Assembly, Migden voted in favor of placing the proposition on the ballot.
Why […]
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The Wall Street Journal has a writeup on my findings of the discrepancy between the national media’s California delegate counts and, you know, the actual count.
A California politics blogger has argued that Sen. Clinton won 36 more pledged delegates in the state than Sen. Obama, rather than the 44-delegate margin that has long been […]
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Mad Props to Dave on the WSJ story correcting the numbers. Here a few more quickies:The LA Times restates the obvious: Civil unions do not equal marriageIt may be, as Justice Carol Corrigan suggested at this week’s arguments, that evolving public attitudes will eventually lead to same-sex marriage — M-word and all — without intervention […]
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