Fishy doings in Sacramento
Forget about the state budget: Tomorrow will bring the true 2008 smackdown between Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, and Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines, R-Clovis. These titans of...
View ArticlePerata, Bass to roll out joint budget plan
State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, has just announced that he and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, will hold a news conference Wednesday morning to roll out their...
View ArticleJerry Brown urged to probe GOP vote-trading
First the state budget was under negotiation, then in litigation, and now in unending confrontation, all the while subject to bloviation and obfuscation. Next up: Prosecution? Labor and environmental...
View ArticleLocal Assembly members react to GOP shakeup
So Mike Villines, R-Clovis, has stepped down as Assembly Republican Leader, making way for Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo. How do the Bay Area’s Assembly members feel about that? “I have the utmost...
View ArticleA musical primary post-mortem
When I’m having a good day, or sometimes when I’m down, I sometimes give myself a gift on the limited budget available to me as a reporter: a 99-cent splurge on new iTunes song for my iPod. And so as...
View ArticleWho’s funding whom for insurance commissioner?
The campaign of Dave Jones, Sacramento Assemblyman and Democratic nominee for state insurance commissioner, today accused the insurance industry of stepping up its funding of his opponent, Republican...
View ArticleMore insurance-industry cash to help Villines
I’d reported last week that the insurance industry seems to be buying into the election for state Insurance Commissioner by dumping money into JobsPAC – a political action committee co-chaired by the...
View ArticleMoney flood brings disclosure complaints
We’ve eight days to go until Election Day, and so it’s time for the last big money push – and all the righteous indignation that comes with it. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for state attorney...
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