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Leonard To Enter Schwarzenegger Administration, Alby Will Become Acting BOE Member (Just In Time For Filing For Office)
3-9-2010 7:55 am
One of the things I love most about my friend Barbara Alby is her "I know something that you don't know look" -- which hasn't changed in the nearly twenty years that I have known her. When I sat down briefly with Barbara last weekend at...
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***Until We Meet Again*** [By Hon. Bill Leonard]
Tom Campbell's strange saga with Sami Al-Arian [By Shawn Steel]
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Whitman Releases New Video On Job Creation [By Jon Fleischman]
Senator Roy Ashburn: "I am gay." [By Jon Fleischman]
Roy Ashburn Is On With Inga Barks On KERN Radio right now! [By Jon Fleischman]
California Budget Mess Will Not be Solved on Margins [By Hon. Bill Leonard]
Eisenhammer Cartoon: Third Hand Smoke [By Jon Fleischman]
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Command and Control [By Congressman John Campbell]
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Ashburn on KERN after revealing he is gay: "I pray to God that I can find peace."
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Will Ashburn have an "Oprah Moment"?
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CRA endorsed Senator George Runner for BOE - over Alby and Nakanishi.
On second ballot, Steve Poizner endorsed for Governor by the California Republican Assembly.
Strickland was strongly encouraged to run for Controller by GOP Gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman.
Wow. CBS TV: Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest http://bit.ly/9mxxHT
State GOP releases new "Jerry Brown Denouncement" Video: http://bit.ly/bB0lZ3
The newly minted Assembly Speaker must think his GOP colleagues are chumps... http://bit.ly/5TuCJO
RT @TeamPoizner: Former State Senator Richard Mountjoy endorses @StevePoizner http://bit.ly/d830sB
RT @JudyLinAP: http://twitpic.com/16fcgd - Roy Ashburn's mug shot
At the offices of the Reason Foundation in West LA to film a video.
Welcome Congressman Buck McKeon to the FlashReport Blog! http://bit.ly/cj1zNV
So much for "solid" Capitol sources. Sen. Wiggens is not resigning. 'nuff said.
Obviously one less Dem Senator has budget implications...
**Breaking ** FR Capitol sources confirm Sen. Pat Wiggins (D) to resign for health concerns.
Dem Majority Report: What's Meg Hiding From? Whitman Dodges the Media Again
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Calitics: LAO's Flawed Look At Jobs and AB 32
Dem Majority Report: Steinberg Slams Schwarzenegger on Budget Veto
Liberal OC: Sarmiento's Side of the Story
CA Budget Bites: More Than 1 Million Children Could Lose Health Benefits or Coverage
Liberal OC: Continued Harrassment of Fourth District BoS Candidates Continues
Calitics: The Travails of Prop 14
Liberal OC: Other Famous Campbell's Our Congressman is Not
Calitics: Mass School Closures Loom - Especially In Communities of Color
Liberal OC: No Child Left Behind Has Left US Schools with Legacy of "Institutionalized Fraud"¯
Liberal OC: NUFF about Blogs Already"¦..
Calitics: Teaching Layoffs And The Grand Strategy To Destroy Public Education
Liberal OC: State Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) Comes Out
CA Budget Bites: On the Docket in Sacramento This Week: Federal Funding, Enterprise Zones
CA Progress Report: Snow Water Content 107% of Normal - But the "Drought" Continues?
CA Progress Report: Education Activists Need Strategy Beyond Marches
CA Progress Report: Ashburn admits, 'I'm Gay' - remains unapologetic about anti-gay record
CA Progress Report: What Kind of Economic Recovery?
Courage Campaign: What kind of economic recovery?
Calitics: Stung By "Race To The Top", Will California Repeal So-Called Reforms?
Liberal OC: Rumores Smear- There is More to the Story!
Calitics: Maldonado To Be Confirmed as Lt. Gov. In Late April?
Calitics: Ashburn Says "He's Gay"
CA Progress Report: A Missed Day of Action
Calitics: Dan Weintraub Criticizes Pete Stark For Representing His District
Liberal OC: Street's Risky Business Catches Up With Him
CA Progress Report: Oil Companies Fund Stealth Attack on Clean Energy and Climate Law
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Calitics: What Kind of Economic Recovery?
CA Progress Report: Speaker Pérez Discusses His Commitment to Job Creation, Reforms
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Dem Majority Report: "NoOnValero.com" Website Launched, Gas Station Picked by AB 32 Backers
Calitics: If Even Cupertino is Having Problems...
CA Progress Report: Massive Protests Reveal Urgent Need for National Recommitment to Education
Calitics: More on Ashburn's History at the Sacramento Gay Bars
CA Progress Report: From Anger to Action
CA Budget Bites: ARRA "“ Keeping a Good Thing Going
Liberal OC: Los Amigos to Seek Grand Jury Investigation
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Press Enterprise Political Empire: Court rejects suit targeting Emmerson's residency
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Capitol Weekly/ LA Times PolitiCal: Panel to consider an additional 10% pay cut for lawmakers
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OC Register Total Buzz: Conservative state senator reveals he's gay
SacBee Capitol Alert: Steve Poizner wins endorsement of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
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OC Register Total Buzz: Web site asks public for dirt on Whitman
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SacBee State Worker: State supervisors file furlough lawsuit
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SDUT America's Finest: America's Finest: Pure buncombe from Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor
OC Register Punch: Another Global Warming Oops Moment "“ big time
OC Register Punch: Mistaking democracy for the good life
Red County VC: Unemployed squeezed by rising insurance rates
Red County VC: LAO: AB 32 Will Kill Jobs!
Eric Hogue: Campbell's Weakness; Loyalty to Academia
Eric Hogue: Taxpayers Fund Nakanishi BOE Campaign Ad
Rose Institute: New Movement for Redistricting Reform in Illinois
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Rose Institute: Thousands of Applicants for California Citizens Redistricting Panel
Red County VC: Tony Strickland to announce Controller rematch
Eric Hogue: Spirited CA GOP Senatorial Debate
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