Has hell officially frozen over? Has that "peace on earth, good will toward men" seasonal thing actually kicked in? Because it's looking like Big Love has come to California GOP's...Has hell officially frozen over? Has that "peace on earth, good will toward men" seasonal thing actually kicked in? Because it's looking like Big Love has come to California GOP's...
Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly Republican address today.
Mitch's assignment was to address the...
It's been one day since a state audit took a former California State University employee -- and current University of California worker -- to task for charging taxpayers for what the auditor...
Yes, that headline was a shameless attempt to tickle the search engines like the masters do . But we do it in the name of the revival of an antiwar protest that born in Marin back in the run-up to...Just in time for her swing out West, author and GOP icon Sarah Palin -- coming to the Reno Costco on Dec. 9 -- is again stirring up controversy in her "Going Rogue" book tour. This...
It's the end of the year and time to hand out the LGBT-Friendly Grades to our California legislators. According to the report card released by Equality California, it looks like Guv...Republican political rookie Damon Dunn's suprising run for Secretary of State appears to be catching on with some big party names: he's been endorsed by GOP State Assemblyman Nathan...
Assemblymember John Pérez , who has deep ties to labor, will indeed be the next speaker of the state Assembly, current Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, told a small group of reporters...
California gubernatorial candidate and ex-E-bay chieftan Meg Whitman will be heading to far away Delaware Monday to testify as a star witness at a trial.
It's a civil trial, to be sure, between...
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Democrats are not raising all taxes on the rich. Tomorrow the House will take up and probably pass an extension of the current estate tax.
HR 4154 would permanently extend the current estate...[...]
The effort to get same sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010 took a hit Monday. Rick Jacbos, the leader of the 700,000-member Courage Campaign just told us that after spending more than...
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In prelude to President Obama's speech committing more troops to "finish the job" in Afghanistan tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has published the story of Tora Bora .
The escape...Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has taken in about $700,000 from his big A-list Hollywood fundraiser earlier this month -- less than the $1 million projected so far, but...
When President Obama addresses the nation on Afghanistan Tuesday night, he will own the war. And Democratic solidarity will be shattered. His decision is widely viewed as the most consequential of...
It's been a rough week for California's first family, at least when it comes to the tabloids and driving -- namely TMZ , which busted Maria Shriver (again) Tuesday for failing to obey traffic laws....
We sure love our ballot initiatives here in sunny Cali, and 2010 is shaping up to be no exception. Consider this: in the past month, the Secretary of State has announced that no less than 17...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his share of official declarations and we pretty much never cover them due to their lack of newsworthiness. Today being the day before a holiday, though, we thought...
It was a love fest at this morning's news conference in East Los Angeles, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-announced that he is appointing Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara...
In addition to announcing Abel Maldonado as his new Lite Guv pick last night on Jay Leno show( Hello out therrrrrrrrrrrre? Is anybody watching ?), the Guv mentioned that he hasn't been pulled...
Carly Fiorina is developing a complicated relationship (nooooo, not THAT kind) with her CA GOP Senate primary opponent Chuck DeVore.
Just days into her fledgling campaign, she has already...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have an idea for all that stimulus funding still being handed out by the feds: high speed rail.
The political...
House Appropriations chief David Obey, in an interview with ABC news, threw down the gauntlet on Afghanistan, saying if the administration wants more troops, he will demand that they be paid for...
Sarah Palin knows the power of a best-seller as a timely vehicle to get the press and public talking, and now former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has quietly laid plans to add "author" to...
Unlike certain other wealthy California Republican candidates who used to play Silicon Valley CEOs on TV -- cough ( Meg Whitman ), cough ( Steve Poizner ) -- US Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has...[...]
In the triumphant return Monday of Under the Bus -- our political podcast -- we chatted with David Plouffe, the campaign manager of Obama for President. (His book tour will stop at Dominican...
Wow, the US Senate GOP primary race is heating up already and we haven't even done our Thanksgiving shopping yet (E-Day isn't until June!)
Minutes after we told you that Carly Fiorina...
Remember GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina's observation last week that "I can take a punch, and I can throw a punch" in the campaign ring?
Ding!
Round 1 has begun against incumbent...
Pro-choice groups are up in arms over passage of the "Stupak" amendment, by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupack, which would expand a ban on government funded abortions by banning abortion coverage in...
The phone lines to the offices of two Democratic holdouts from the San Joaquin Valley have been tied up all day.
Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza have not yet committed to vote for the...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just declared that health care legislation will pass the House tonight, following President Obama's visit to the House.
"We will be making history with our vote,"...
President Obama is arriving at House Cannon Building any minute to plea with Democrats to pass the biggest health care legislation since Lyndon Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid in 1964. House...
So did you catch Dan "Gavin's Worst Nightmare " Noyes' piece on KGO-Channel 7 the other night. He reviewed how much is being spent on CHP officers protecting the state's top officials.
Dan's...
Carla Fiorina's been (officially) on the campaign trail for, what, three days and it's like she's already wearing the GOP Senate crown. Boxer, Boxer, Boxer, Boxer, Boxer. That's the only opponent...
Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio is a big name in Sacramento for taking on the big guns -- Arnold, Bush, Rove. But this week, he's an ethnic hero for whacking a major fast food chain's...
Newly-announced U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina swept through Sacramento Thursday, where she spoke to a building trade gathering about the importance of job creation and economic development --...
So did you notice what the first thing did Carly Fiorina did when she announced her run for Senate Wednesday ? She took on the I-Didn't-Vote-As-Often-As-I-Shoulda thing that Comrade Marinucci ...State AG Jerry Brown told reporters Tuesday that -- though he's not yet ready officially to declare his 2010 gubernatorial candidacy -- his wife, attorney Anne Gust, is already interviewing...
Jeff Flint, the Sacramento consultant who is one of the architects of the repeal of Maine's same sex marriage law Wednesday, just told me something very interesting in the wake of his side's...
Just got off the phone with Lt. Gov. John Garamendi. He's waaaaaaay ahead in the East Bay Congressional race . With about 50 percent of the vote counted, he's up 57 percent to 38 percent for GOPer...
Turnout was heavier than expected (50 percent v. 35 percent) in Maine Tuesday as Mainers went to the polls to decide whether to affirm or reject a new law approving same sex marriage. Check out...
Silicon Valley billionaire star venture capitalist John Doerr has put out the word in no uncertain terms that he's not, not, not interested in running for the 2010 Democratic nomination for...
State Attorney General Jerry Brown said today that "I don't see the rush" to formally declare himself a Democratic candidate for governor in 2010 -- and hinted he may not do so for months.
"I...[...]
Scott Gerber, the communications director for Attorney General Jerry Brown who admitted recording phone conversations with reporters without their permission --- including Chronicle senior...
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, as fierce a proponent of the public option today as she was skeptical toward bold approaches just a few months ago, accused the insurance industry today of "ribald"...
California Sen. Barbara Boxer has signed a letter to majority leader Harry Reid urging him to support Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's Free Choice amendment , a subversive plot to open the health...
Ronald Reagan gets all the credit among conservatives for ending the Cold War, but recall that it was his successor, former President George H.W. Bush, loathed by conservatives, who actually handled...
