Joe Canciamilla
Former state Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla of Pittsburg will seek a seat on the judicial bench in 2010 or 2012.
Canciamilla filed a candidate intention statement to run for Superior Court judge in Contra Costa County. He has not designated which of the county’s 35 departments [...]
California has keen interest in Copenhagen - San Francisco Chronicle
Conservatives, led by Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Linda (Yuba County), Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay (Placer County), and anti-tax advocate Ted Costa, have submitted to the attorney general an initiative for the November ballot that would freeze the state's compliance [...]
As I have said before, the race to replace Senator Sam Aanestad (SD4) is going to be very interesting seeing that both Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa and Assemblyman Rick Keene have similar voting records (link here) with LaMalfa being slightly more conservative (California Republican Assembly lifetime voting record for LaMalfa, [...]
The Orange County-based effort to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, may sue elections officials with the hope of getting their invalidated recall on the ballot.
The group has been comparing rejected petition signatures against voter registration lists and has found some that they believe should have been counted, according to Corona [...]
As you all may recall my RedCounty post on December 1, 2009 entitled "Defeated Councilmember Collects Unemployment".
I am pleased to learn that Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills, District 60) concur by saying that "The law is very clear on this issue" and goes much further:
Assemblyman Curt Hagman Demands the Return [...]
Torlakson
The California Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO has endorsed Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, as its choice for state superintendent of schools.
Incumbent Superintendent Jack O’Connell terms out next year.
Read on for the full press release:
CONCORD—The California Federation of Teachers has announced its endorsement of [...]
California Assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore Tweeting
Oops the impeccable conservative as Chuck DeVore likes to call himself has been caught up in another hypocritical FLAP. Remember the last time it was [...]
I wish I could be as sanguine about the the election of the firmly openly gay Speaker of the California Assembly as I am about the first openly lesbian Mayor of the City of Houston. And while I have met Assemblyman John Pérez, an openly gay Latino Democrat from Los [...]
The race to replace Senator Sam Aanestad (SD4) is certainly going to be interesting. As I have bloged here before, both Assemblyman LaMalfa and Assemblyman Keene have similar voting records (see link here), with LaMalfa being sightly more conservative (California Republican Assembly lifetime voting [...]
It appears official that Los Angeles Democrat John A. Perez will be next Speaker of the California Assembly.
Assembly Democrats were expected to meet in a closed-door caucus this afternoon to discuss who would replace Karen Bass as Speaker and about a half hour ago Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, [...]
" Likely Assembly Speaker John Perez"Assemblyman John Perez of the 45th Assembly District, is the likely successor to current Speaker Karen Bass, the Sacramento Bee reports.Assemblyman John A. Perez's final opponent has bowed out, setting the stage for the first-term Democrat to be selected' [...] Assemblyman John A. Perez's final opponent has bowed out, setting the stage for the first-term Democrat to [...]
As I have reported last week on December 1st and December 5th here on RedCounty regarding the Assembly Speaker fight within the Democrat Assembly Caucus may come to a close and for a vote in the State Assembly as early as Thursday Morning.
According to Captiol Weekly, Assemblyman Kevin De Leon has thrown [...]
As I have reported last week on December 1st and December 5th here on RedCounty regarding the Assembly Speaker fight within the Democrat Assembly Caucus may come to a close and for a vote in the State Assembly as early as Thursday Morning.
According to Captiol Weekly, Assemblyman Kevin De Leon has thrown [...]
As I have reported last week on December 1st and December 5th here on RedCounty regarding the Assembly Speaker fight within the Democrat Assembly Caucus may come to a close and for a vote in the State Assembly as early as Thursday Morning.
According to Captiol Weekly, Assemblyman Kevin De Leon has thrown [...]
Word from our sources around the Capitol are telling us that Assemblyman John Perez has won the Speaker sweepstakes, and that Assembly Dems will rally unanimously to approve him. No official word yet though... stay tuned...
Update: Capitol Weekly hearing the same thing.
[...]Earlier this week we were awed with the $1 million outside groups funneled into the LA City Council race, trying to tip the scales in favor of former Paramount Exec Christine Essel. It was the most ever spent for a council race in LA, and it wasn't near enough.
Assemblyman Paul [...]
State Assemblyman Paul Krekorian is now Los Angeles Councilman-elect from City Council District 2.
According to the prelimiary results from yesterday's election are as follows:
Paul Krekorian 10,810 56.56%
Christine Essel 8,304 43.44%
Now, this means Mr. Krekorian will become the fifth councilmember who went from State Legislature to Los Angeles City Hall. The other four are former [...]
The voters in the City of Los Angeles Council District 2 head to the polls today to decide in the runoff between State Assemblyman Paul Krekorian (D-Burbank, District 43) and former Paramount Pictures CEO Christine Essel.
The preliminary election results are from the City of Los Angeles Elections Division:
(Absentee Voters)
Paul Krekorian 6,373 [...]
Justin Hart, new media director for Senatorial candidate and California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on the left and Chuck DeVore
The momentum for California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s U.S. Senate campaign against Carly Fiorina is NOT going so well.Let’s be clear about [...]
Orange County Supervisors this morning unanimously expressed support for Assemblyman Jose Solorio’s bill to block the sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds.
Solorio, D-Santa Ana, proposed Assembly Bill 1590 last week, saying the process for carrying out the sale has been tainted with “misinformation and misrepresentations, conflicts of interests, questionable [...]
