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Incumbents win primary races
Familiar faces topped the polls in Tuesday’s primary for offices in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. Incumbent Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), state Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Caņada Flintridge) and Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake) all received the...
Tags: Mike Gatto, Carol Liu, Adam Schiff, Safeway Inc., Brad Sherman
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Democrats seeking office have their eye on Sacramento
WASHINGTON — Early this year, Leticia Perez and her husband flew here for a whirlwind 48 hours. The couple dined at the Italian Embassy, visited the Lincoln Memorial and joined the crowd on the National Mall watching as President Obama was...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace, Jackie Speier, Darrell Steinberg
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Ron Kaye: Wishing PACs would pack it in
Just days before Burbank voters went to the polls, Mike Gatto was the star attraction for a Napa Valley retreat at a five-star hotel where, for $5,000 each, guests could schmooze with the assemblyman and four of his legislative pals. The event was...
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Separation of Church and State, Mike Gatto, Barney Frank, Michelle Rhee
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Michael Dukakis to help Rep. Brad Sherman retire campaign debt
Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, are helping with a "debt retirement" fundraiser for Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), who last fall won one of the most contentious -- and most expensive -- House races in the...Tags: Regional Elections, Political Fundraising, Brad Sherman, Elections, Politics
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Remembering the Henry Waxman-Howard Berman machine
SACRAMENTO -- The defeat of Rep. Howard Berman last fall marked the end of an era in California politics. Berman, a former state Assemblyman who lost a bitter fight for the speakership in 1980, went on to serve the San Fernando Valley for three...Tags: Henry Waxman
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Schiff, senators introduce legislation to regulate helicopter noise
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) joined California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in introducing legislation on Monday to try and provide Los Angeles County residents a respite from helicopter noise. The Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise...
Tags: Henry Waxman, Google+, Adam Schiff, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Ganging up on Bob Blumenfield
Six candidates are running for Los Angeles’ 3rd Council District seat; five showed up to a forum last Tuesday hosted by the Woodland Hills Property Owners Assn. They shook hands, embraced, in a couple cases offered each other pecks on the cheek. Who...Tags: Parties and Movements, Gil Cedillo, Tony Cardenas, Bob Blumenfield, Finance
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Greuel, Garcetti hope for support from Clinton or Obama
Trying to set yourself apart from the pack in the Los Angeles mayor's race, you couldn't ask for a much more potent ally than former President Clinton. Unless your backing came from the current occupant of the Oval Office, President Obama. The two...
Tags: George Clooney, Parties and Movements, Jan Perry, Richard Riordan, Brad Sherman
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: John McCain, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai
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Obama to nominate John Kerry to be next secretary of state
WASHINGTON – President Obama will nominate John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, White House sources confirmed, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his...Tags: John McCain, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai
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Helicopter rules depend on FAA
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) announced plans to take up legislation to regulate low-flying helicopters above residential neighborhoods, saying voluntary controls for the “persistent flyovers” were clearly insufficient. Whether there will be a...Tags: Adam Schiff, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Democrats gain big in Legislature
Democrats were within striking distance of a supermajority in the state Senate late Tuesday, and were drawing near in the Assembly as well, moving the party closer to unilateral power to raise taxes. The potential gains, a result of sweeping changes...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Richard Alarcon, Executive Branch, Mary Bono, Lois Capps
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Nov 7, 2012
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