Red State (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett-Packard CEO-turned-McCain campaign advisor and surrogate, announced on Thursday the endorsements of eight Republican Senators, including conservative stalwart Senator Tom Coburn . “Our nation is facing serious economic challengers because we keep rehiring the same failed career politicians who have proven themselves incapable of making hard choices,”...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Meg Whitman (R) has a wide lead in California's Republican primary race for governor, according to the latest Capitol Weekly/Probolsky Research poll . "About a third of Republicans and decline-to-state voters who said they intend to vote Republican said they favor Whitman, who has a 3-to-1 edge over rival contender Tom Campbell (R), Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner (R) remains stuck in a distant...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, announced today she will run in the California primary against Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, to face Senator Barbara Boxer in the 2010 senatorial race. The question is: how conservative is Carly Fiorina? See two videos below. Carly Fiorina If Fiorina (R-CA) wins the primary against conservative Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in June, she will make history if...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Fiorina has not yet formally announced her bid. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Carly Fiorina, a likely Republican candidate for Senate in California, made public on Tuesday what her GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore has long claimed: that the national party is supporting her bid to take out Sen. Barbara Boxer next year. "The chair of the National Republican [...]
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
If things had worked out just a little differently, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Robert Kennedy was gunned down in 1968, might have become a Wal-Mart or one of Donald Trump’s gaudy creations. Instead, it is a center of education, home to two elementary schools and Robert F. Kennedy high school. Progress, sure, but there’s something sad about the passing of the Ambassador....
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The survey indicates Brown leads Newsom by 31 points in Southern California. (CNN) – Eight months before California's primary, a new poll suggests that Jerry Brown, the state's sitting attorney general and former governor, holds a 20-point lead over San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom in the battle for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The survey, by Field [...]
Leo's Stuff (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Is isolation what the city wants? Maria Houser Conzemius • Writers' Group • September 11, 2009 Iowa City Press Citizen Who decided that Iowa City's mission is to provide subsidized housing for refugees from inner cities regardless of their behavior? When did that happen? Who is going to stand up and take responsibility for this decision? We have too many leftist social workers and other misguided...
CQ (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
After a long career in state office, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi appears headed to a seat in the U.S. House with his strong showing in Tuesday’s special election primary in California’s 10th District.
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
A week ago I wrote about the likely California primary contest between Carly Fiorina and state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. They're going after Senator Barbara Boxer, whose numbers are looking pretty weak right now. At the time, I didn't know much...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Bill Bradley's Model Congress by dday In 2000, angered by the rightward, DLC-led turn of the Democratic Party, I became interested in Bill Bradley's candidacy for the Presidency and voted for him in the California primary. Needless to say, he didn't win that year, and he retreated to the world of speeches and occasional op-eds as an eminence grise of politics. During that 2000 campaign he would talk...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
In 2000, angered by the rightward, DLC-led turn of the Democratic Party, I became interested in Bill Bradley's candidacy for the Presidency and voted for him in the California primary. Needless to say, he didn't win that year, and he retreated to the world of speeches and occasional op-eds as an eminence grise of politics. During that 2000 campaign he would say very adamantly that all Americans should...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5th, 1968, as he celebrated his victory in the California primary, becoming the third of Joseph Kennedy’s sons to die a violent death. His death draped Ted in the Kennedy mantle long before he was ready for it and forced him to confront his own mortality. But he summoned himself to deliver an eloquent eulogy at St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on two new polls that show San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) trailing state Attorney General Jerry Brown (D) statewide in the Democratic race for governor. On the statewide level, a Moore Methods poll taken last week of likely Democratic voters showed Brown in the lead for the 2010 primary, 49% to 20%. A second poll by David Binder of likely Democratic voters...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
The Baader Meinhof Complex Starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, and Johana Wokalek Directed by Uli Edel Rated R I appreciated The Baader Meinhof Complex far more than I enjoyed it. Having not grown up in the 1960s, so many of the events that shaped the 40 years or so that have followed them are shared by younger generations through archival footage, not emotional memories. For example, the only...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
A new J Moore Methods survey in California finds Jerry Brown (D) leading Gavin Newsom (D) in a Democratic gubernatorial primary, 46% to 26%. Key finding: "Not only does Brown -- who has yet to announce his candidacy -- hold a 20-point lead more than a year before the primary, but among voters age 60 and older, the AG's lead is 54% to 20%." Said pollster Moore: "The average age in the...
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