aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

After dropping out of the gubernatorial race last year, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is now running for lieutenant governor.Newsom s announcement Friday morning is not a surprise. He filed papers on Feb. 17 with the secretary of state s office, t...

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

aggregated from: Political Blotter

Oakland mayoral candidate and former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's Hope 2010 ballot measure committee in the past week has moved another $70,000 ($20,000 last Wednesday and $50,000 yesterday) into Californians for a Cure, the committee ...

topics: activist, campaign, candidate, committee, oakland

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

Tom Ammiano, Esta SolerAssemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) chose Esta Soler, the head of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, as his 2010 Woman of the Year. I am proud to announce Esta Soler, one of the world's foremost experts on viole...

topics: congress, san-francisco, senate, state-senate, tom-ammiano

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By Alison StatemanTime MagazineCruelty to animals, it is said, is often a precursor to graver crimes. So would there not be some usefulness to a registry of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse? Legislators in California want the Golden State...

topics: committee, democrat, government, republican, san-francisco

aggregated from: Bay Area Reporter Weblogs

In his first press call with LGBT news outlets since becoming the state s first openly gay Assembly Speaker, John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) said that he has not yet decided if he will oppose the governor s choice to fill the vacant lieutenant governor...

topics: democrat, election, government, nomination, oakland

aggregated from: Political Blotter

Oakland mayoral candidate and former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's Hope 2010 ballot measure committee gave $20,000 last Thursday to Californians for a Cure, the committee formed by the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Associat...

topics: campaign, candidate, committee, napa, oakland

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

BY ROB HOTAKAINENMcClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON If all politics are local, don t tell that to Jimmy Higdon. Higdon, a Republican from Kentucky, won a state Senate seat in December in a largely Democratic district with an unlikely strategy: He nat...

topics: campaign, clinton, committee, congress, democrat

aggregated from: Political Blotter

At a news conference this morning in Sacramento on the results of state-funded medical-marijuana research, former state Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, recounted an interesting tale about how the legislation to fund that research was passed.Va...

topics: attorney-general, candidate, republican, republicans, santa-clara

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull/The Bridgeman Art Library BY RUSSELL SHORTOThe New York TimesLAST MONTH, A WEEK before the Senate seat of the liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy fell into Republican hands, his legacy suffered another...

topics: activist, arts, book, books, business

aggregated from: Political Blotter

State Sen. Abel Maldonado's drive toward confirmation, which got hung up by Assembly Democrats on Thursday and reset for another 90 days by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday, hasn't helped him land a lot of contributions to his campaign for that o...

topics: campaign, candidate, city-council, committee, democrats