Saturday, October 25, 2008
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		LAT: Local government agencies spend taxpayer money on pre-election outreach campaigns
		
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		VIDEO - BakCal: Mettler scuffle with protester caught on video
		
 
- SDUT: Selling ads on freeway alert boards considered
 - SJMerc: California violent-video-game law faces showdown in federal appeals court
 - LAT: New California rules target big-rig pollution
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		SacBee: Lungren blasts foe Durston for Vietnam deferment comments
		
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		SGV: It's Politics: AIG retreat raises questions
		
 - IVDB: Man gets year in mental lockup for threats to Dreier
 - FresBee: Prop. 4 messages are mixed
 - SacBee: Mormon church pulls plug on pro-Prop. 8 calls from Utah
 - SacBee: 2008 Ballot Watch: Proposition 8: Same-sex marriage ban
 - OakTrib: Prop. 8 campaign threatens business owners
 - Yes on Prop 8 letter threatening businesses (PDF)
 - SJMerc: Churches take sides over gay-marriage ban
 - LAT: Same-sex marriage initiative sparks a $60-million fight
 - SacBee: Minority groups fear loss of power
 - SFChron: GOP Heavies Bailing On McCain Campaign
 - SFChron: Palin Testifies In Alaska Ethics Dispute
 - SFChron: Early Voters Turning Out In Record Numbers
 - CCTimes: Happiness gap opens between Doomacrats, Republigrins
 - CCTimes: Palin testifies to investigator in ethics dispute
 - CCTimes: McCain seeks comeback, warns Obama is big taxer
 - SJMerc: Could polls be wrong about support for Obama? Pundits warn of 'Bradley effect
 - SJMerc: Obama pays a visit, perhaps his last, to his grandmother, a beloved supporter
 - LAT: Early voters are Democrats' for a change
 - LAT: McCain's new tack: Democratic rule means high taxes
 - OCReg: O.C. suspicions over Obama's citizenship continue
 - SDUT: Tuned in, turned on to election
 
- StockRec: Johnston, Lee in final days of city's priciest mayoral race ever
 - SacBee: Alameda County politics' hue looks decidedly blue
 - OakTrib: Long shot looking to unseat Lee has no regrets
 - OakTrib: Former Dellums intern investigated
 - FresBee: Loan scams in Valley get spotlight
 - FresBee: Professor appointed to air board
 - FresBee: Central Unified bonds a tough sell
 - LAT: Most Santa Barbara County workers to face 2-week furlough
 - VentStar: Heated races spur sign vandalism
 - VentStar: County will cut positions; no layoffs likely
 - VentStar: Most campaign signs are of incumbents
 - VentStar: More than $1 million donated to campaigns
 - LAT: Developer Rick Caruso could make Los Angeles mayoral race a real contest
 - LAT: Judge sides with union in battle over LAX Hilton
 - LAT: Orange County's Great Park board hires fundraising consultant
 - SBSun: Lewis speaks to students at University of Redlands
 - RivPE: Corona council candidates running cut-rate campaign
 - City official: Jeandron's raise my idea
 - SDUT: $4 million in cuts needed if Prop. M passes
 - SDUT: Aguirre wants state measure to help seals
 - SDUT: Residents fight back over pilfered political placards
 
