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Controller’s race headed to recount ‘crap shoot’
The day after an election, if a race remains too close to call, every Republican’s first call is to Jimmy Camp, the best GOP ground organizer in the state. He’s pictured at right. While the rest of us nurse our election night hangovers,
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Late ballots keep controller’s race cliffhanger
As more Californians turn to absentee voting, election officials have seen an uptick in the number of potentially valid ballots that aren’t being counted. That’s because, under state law, ballots must be received by the local registrar of voters by
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Brown vs. Kashkari debate
Let’s hope Gov. Jerry Brown accepts the invitation to debate Neel Kashkari issued by the consortium that hosted Brown’s debate in 2010 with Meg Whitman. The Orange County Register and KABC also have reached out to Brown for a debate they
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Chapman Forecast: Steady CA growth
Chapman University’s new economic forecast projects steady but not spectacular economic growth for California and the nation. Real U.S. GDP growth could continue at about 2 percent a year. That’s not as good as the 5 percent or more during
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New Senate Prez de Leon pushes agenda
State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, has been chosen by his party colleagues to lead them in the Senate. The selection pulls the California Democratic Party further to the left. De Leon’s rise from poverty in San Diego’s rough Logan Heights
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Knives already out for CA’s emerging House star
The flurry of reports that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, is a lock to replace Eric Cantor of Virginia as House majority leader has led the mainstream media to do the usual profiles and think pieces about D.C.’s newest political star.
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Cap-and-trade share not close to $ bullet train needs
Gov. Jerry Brown has managed to secure a steady source of funding — cap-and-trade fees related to AB 32 — for his $68 billion bullet-train project. It appears that he did so by winning teacher unions’ support with a simply
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CA oil industry celebrates defeat of fracking moratorium
California’s oil industry is celebrating the defeat of a bill that would have placed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing — but warned that the fracking war is far from over. Senate Bill 1132 by Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles,
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‘Kaustrodamus’: The L.A. journo who saw Cantor’s demise coming
Mickey Kaus is a very smart L.A. pundit whose Kaufiles was one of the original news blogs that mattered. He now writes mainly for the Daily Caller. In 1992, he wrote “The End of Equality,” a powerful book-length analysis of
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Are we headed for a recount in the controller’s race?
To say that California’s race for controller is too close to call is an understatement. As of Monday morning, two Democratic candidates were locked in a statistical tie for the second spot in the November run-off, with another candidate very
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