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CalWatchdog Morning Read – July 12

State’s largest pension fund down since last year San Diego congressman swapping donations State controller dinged for late contribution reporting Oakland firm fined  over $100,000 for laundering campaign contributions Big spending by pharmaceutical Good morning! Lots of ethics and campaign

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Gitsham among possible CA GOP Congressional ‘Young Guns’

Campaign funding from the national level could flow to California Republicans hoping to land a seat in Congress on election day. “Four Republican candidates running for open or Democratic-held House seats in California are ‘on the radar’ for spots in the

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Threat to vulnerable CA House Democrat comes, seemingly goes

Rep. Scott Peters, D-La Jolla, represents a wealthy district ranging from Coronado to Carmel Valley to rural estates in Rancho Bernardo and Poway. The Duke and New York University law school graduate narrowly beat San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio, a

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Dems make Peters-DeMaio race a referendum on Tea Party

The nationally watched race for a swing seat between Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, and former San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio is currently in a roiled state because of lewd allegations made against DeMaio by a former staffer whom DeMaio

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In San Diego, how low will foes of gay GOP candidate go?

The 2008 election of gay libertarian firebrand Carl DeMaio to the San Diego City Council absolutely drove the city’s Democratic machine insane. When it came to tearing DeMaio down, it was anything goes. No one of any Dem stature ever

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Chamber of Commerce touts pension reform, backs pension arsonist

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce stunned a lot of people last month when it endorsed Democrat incumbent Scott Peters over Republican challenger Carl DeMaio in the 52nd congressional district race in an affluent swath of San Diego and its northeastern

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Super PAC $ floods Peters vs. DeMaio congressional race

San Diego residents can’t watch a major sporting event without seeing repeated ads paid for by national super PACs trashing congressman Scott Peters, a moderate Democrat, or his Republican opponent, former City Councilman Carl DeMaio, an outspoken libertarian. The flood

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19 CA members of Congress take pensions

Former San Diego city councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, who brought comprehensive pension reform to San Diego, is taking his fight to Capitol Hill. A new report published by the GOP congressional candidate identified 102 members of Congress that

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San Diego's pension reform model finally inspires copy-cats

In early 2012, when then-San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio was pushing an innovative, unusual, unprecedented pension reform initiative in California's second-largest city, I wrote about it for City Journal. I thought it was a harbinger of what the future would

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How CA GOP will attack Dems in 2014 election

California Republicans might not be the most talented bunch, but now and then they can figure out what to do. This time, it’s obvious. They will do three things: 1. Attack Obamacare. 2. Attack Obamacare. 3. Attack Obamacare. The next

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