There are 321 days left until California voters go to the polls and choose their next governor. That's a long time, but not so long that political junkies won't read tonight's new poll and wonder this: might the all-but-official Democratic heavyweight candidate end up losing?
It's not that crazy a question, [...]
It seems there was a pretty contentious decision over who should take over as City Manager in Santa Rosa. According to the Press Democrat, "A deeply divided Santa Rosa City Council Tuesday chose former Advanced Planning Director Wayne Goldberg to be interim city manager, edging out the city's second-in-command, Deputy [...]
Each week, members of The Watchers Council nominate two posts from the prevous week in the sphere. One nomination is from something the member has written and the other from someone the member has read. Following the nomination, the Council votes to determine the best. (No, [...]
The pharmaceutical industry’s political donations paid-off big time yesterday, according to the great data-crunchers at Berkeley-based MAPLight.org.
The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 yesterday on an health-care reform bill amendment – offered by U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND – which would’ve relaxed restrictions on drug imports from Canada [...]
“We’d like some of that ‘change we can believe in’ that’s actually the real thing” writes Thom Hartman.
Voters are waking up, and they don’t like what they’re waking up to as Obama fails to deliver on his promise of change.
[...]The runoff election for the Assembly set vacated by “Open Mike” Duvall is Jan. 12, but mail ballots began delivery Tuesday. Click here to find our new voters guide for the election, update with questions on gay marriage, the proposed water bond, and the proposed open primary, as well [...]
GOP delay tactics slow Dems on health care votes
At least one of those “delay tactics” sounds a lot like an Obama campaign promise:
GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma had sought approval to require that any amendment considered by the Senate must be offered 72 hours in advance and [...]
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT, 85% Dem) insists he can never vote for a version of ObamaCare that includes any kind of a public option or government-run health insurance.
And now Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL, unrated) swears that he can never vote for an ObamaCare bill that does not include a public [...]
California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein both supported the only really bipartisan amendment in the entire Senate health legislation, one by Sen. Byron Dorgon, D-N.D., to allow drug...
It’s officially game on for immigration reform in the House of Representatives.
At a news conference packed with immigration advocates, including young people wearing t-shirts that said “Future Voter,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would: legalize 12 million undocumented immigrants; insist [...]
Updated at 2:02 p.m. with Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s response.
Implying he lacks confidence in Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s management style, Supervisor John Moorlach cast the sole vote to oppose her appointment as chairman of the county Board of Supervisors next year.
“I wish the chair the best, but I just [...]
It may all be coming down now to abortion.
With Sen. Joe Lieberman now saying he'll support health legislation, the Democrats' 60th vote may be Nebraska conservative Democrat Ben Nelson, who is...
California Assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore Tweeting
Oops the impeccable conservative as Chuck DeVore likes to call himself has been caught up in another hypocritical FLAP. Remember the last time it was [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is running out of moves as the Christmas holiday deadline nears and senators are still skeptical about pieces of his health reform legislation.
One of Reid’s major problems, Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, says he’ll vote for the bill if lawmakers remove [...]
It's unanimous, on one side of the aisle at least. John Perez is the California Assembly's next Speaker. Just 40 years old, openly gay, a freshman lawmaker and holding his first elective office, Perez will be officially voted in net month, but with the unanimous backing of his caucus, that's [...]
When the LA Times called Annise Parker, Houston’s Mayor-Elect “conservative,” I thought that maybe this lesbian is a Republican, but, alas, she is not. In the Space City’s mayoral runoff yesterday, she “defeated former City Attorney Gene Locke on an austere platform, convincing voters that her financial bona [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
University of Alabama sophomore tailback Mark Ingram won the 2009 Heisman Trophy in the closest Heisman race ever — just 28 points separated Ingram and Stanford’s Toby Gerhart:
“Ingram received 227 first-place votes and 1,304 points. Gerhart got 222 first-place votes and 1,276 points, while Texas quarterback [...]
Alabama running back Mark Ingram, star of the top-ranked team, won the Heisman Trophy, edging Stanford star Toby Gerhart, who led the nation in rushing and touchdowns and also stars in baseball, in the closest vote in history.
** OBAMA TODAY – SUNDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington today.
Obama [...]
