aggregated from: Political Blotter

Manteca teacher Jeff Takada has dropped out of the Republican primary for the 11th Congressional District, citing lack of money.That leaves David Harmer, Brad Goehring, Elizabeth Emken, Robert Beadles and Tony Amador expected to finalize their paperw...

topics: campaign, committee, conservative, elected, government

aggregated from: Political Blotter

Rolling into this weekend's California Republican Party convention, it seemed this was a much better week for Steve Poizner than for Meg Whitman in the Republican gubernatorial primary. He got endorsements from the California Republican Assembly and ...

topics: alameda, attorney-general, board-of-supervisors, campaign, candidate

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The trail of GOP gubernatorial candidates through Lamorinda continues the evening of March 18 when Steve Poizner speaks in Lafayette at the second in a political series sponsored by the Commonwealth Club.Last month s appearance of his chief rival, Me...

topics: campaign, conservative, elected, government, health-care

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

For 2,000 years, Judaism has treated Jews-by-choice the same as Jews-by-birth. We are taught as soon as a convert emerges from the mikvah (ritual bath) she or he is Jewish for all purposes. (Talmud, Yevamot 47b)For 62 years, since its founding, t...

topics: campaign, conservative, government, political, san-francisco

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman today announced leaders of her Students for Meg Coalition, including some here in the Bay Area. I am counting on the energy, ideas and determination of California s young voters to move our state in a ne...

topics: berkeley, campaign, candidate, conservative, oakland

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In what seems to be its only California campaign contribution so far in the 2009-10 election cycle, the National Organization for Marriage a Virginia-based organization that helped support and bankroll Proposition 8 of 2008, the constitutional ba...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, conservative, election, liberal

aggregated from: Political Blotter

McNerneyDemocratic Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, is the most moderate member of the California delegation in the House of Representatives, according to the National Journal s 2009 vote ratings.McNerney s composite conservative score is 46.8, whi...

topics: congressman, conservative, democrats, election, house-speaker

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

Republican Sen. Roy Ashburn, who has been on leave from the Senate since his DUI arrest last week, confirmed today that he is gay. I m gay, Ashburn told KERN radio host Inga Barks in an interview this morning. Those are the words that have been so...

topics: conservative, republican, san-francisco, senate, senator

aggregated from: SFist

Anti-gay Republican Senator Roy Ashburn -- the man who was arrested last week on a DUI charge after visiting Sacramento gay bar Faces -- confirmed today that he is, in fact, a homosexual. Sacramento Bee reports that the Senator, who has been on lea...

topics: conservative, republican, senate, senator

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

Gary Krupp and his wife, Meredith, flanking Pope Benedict XVIin 2008 at a symposium on Pius XII at Castel Gandolfo near Rome. By Paul VitelloThe New York TimesLONG BEACH, N.Y. At home here on Long Island, he is Gary L. Krupp, medical equipment de...

topics: beach, books, budget, campaign, conservative