More On Right Up For A Fight

SEPT. 19, 2010 For years, Republican establishmentarians have taken their grass-roots supporters for granted, knowing that, come Election Day, activists will vote for the lesser of two evils – i.e., that even a bad Republican is better than a Democrat.

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England vs. Maldonado

John Seiler: Conservative activist Karen England is running a write-in campaign against Abel “Arnold’s Chauffeur” Maldonado for the Lt. Gov.’s seat. In this year of the maverick, anything is possible. Maybe she could win. At a minimum, she could dump

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Barbara Alby is in for sure

Steven Greenhut: I just heard that former Assemblywoman Barbara Alby definitely is running for the Senate against Ted Gaines and Roger Niello to represent the seat east of Sacramento. The debate between Gaines and Niello has been dull so far.

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Christine O'Donnell, come to California and run for governor!

John Seiler: Christine O’Donnell, the feisty new Tea Party candidate who won the GOP primary for Senate in Delaware, should trade places with Meg Whitman, and run for governor here. Meg would be happier running Delaware, the center of a

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Shame To See Wright Go

SEPT. 17, 2010 You don’t find the words “state senator” and “indicted” in the same headline very often. But when I saw this Sept. 16 Los Angeles Times story on the eight-count felony indictment of Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood, for

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The (Big) Money's On Whitman

SEPT. 17, 2010 Earlier this week, gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman made a campaign stop at Yelp, a user-generated business review Web site. She received a bruising and biased barrage of questions from employees, critical of Whitman’s self-funded campaign financing. It

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GOP Split Over Pro-Redevelop Measure

SEPT. 17, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Proposition 22 appears to be a seething two-headed snake, with strong division between supporters and opponents, and cleverly worded, but confusing ballot language. According to Ballotpedia, language for the Proposition 22 was filed with

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Killer Cop's Patron Backs Brown

Steven Greenhut: Attorney General Jerry Brown, despite his history of taking anti-establishment political positions, has been strangely silent on issues of police abuse, especially in his home city of Oakland. He was mostly mum during the case of Johannes Mehserle,

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