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Whitman, refusing to pull negative ads, jeered at women's conference -- A crowd of women jeered Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman when she refused today to promise she'd pull her negative TV ads, even as "Today" show host Matt Lauer and an audience of thousands of women encouraged her to do so. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert Anthony York in the Los Angeles Times JULIET WILLIAMS AP John Myers Capitol Notes weblog -- 10/26/10 First Lady Michelle Obama urges more support, services for military families -- First Lady Michelle Obama Tuesday said that providing more support and services to the nation's military families is a key "women's issue" that ranks "right up there with equal pay, right up there with work-family balance, right up there with breaking the glass ceiling." Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics Michael J. Mishak in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Times/USC poll: For women, ideology trumps the gender card -- As their party's first female nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have run campaigns premised in part on the belief that they could attract women voters who typically brush aside the Republican Party. But new polls indicate that, if anything, women are treating their candidacies more harshly than are men. Cathleen Decker in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Number of Californians entering foreclosure rises 19% in third quarter -- The jump from the previous quarter is the first time the measure has increased since early 2009, according to data from MDA DataQuick. However, the numbers are down from the same period last year. Alejandro Lazo in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Voters Want Jobs, But Governors Can't Do Much to Create Them -- Whitman and Brown have their jobs creation plans, but unemployment is a long-term, national conundrum. Lauren Callahan Bay Citizen -- 10/26/10 Fiorina hospitalized -- California GOP Senate challenger Carly Fiorina was admitted to a hospital Tuesday to be treated for an infection associated with her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer. JUDY LIN AP Maeve Reston in the Los Angeles Times Carolyn Lochhead Chronicle Politics Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 10/26/10 Whitman had rough time in previous turnaround try -- Her experience at FTD, the iconic floral company, provides a parallel from the business world with what Whitman acknowledges she will inherit if voters elect her governor Nov. 2 - a troubled state beset with outdated and ineffective systems. JULIET WILLIAMS AP -- 10/26/10 La Opinión: Whitman: Meeting the challenge -- Meg Whitman, one of the richest women in the country, with a fortune estimated at $ 1.2 billion by Forbes magazine, is at 54 to one of the biggest challenges of her life, becoming the first woman governor of California. Araceli Martínez Ortega La Opinión -- 10/26/10 Translated by Google Translate (good, but not perfect). La Opinión: Brown: 40 years -- At 72, Jerry Brown wants to be governor for the second time in California, if he succeeds would be making history. No one before has been governor of California in different periods of the state's history. Araceli Martínez Ortega La Opinión -- 10/26/10 Translated by Google Translate (good, but not perfect). Shriver mum on her choice in governor's race -- First lady Maria Shriver said this morning that organizing today's much-anticipated meeting of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman was no easy task. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 10/26/10 Shriver, like Schwarzenegger, reveals no plans for when she leaves office -- California first lady Maria Shriver this morning delivered what seemed to be a farewell speech, saying - as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said about himself many times - that she does not know what she will do once she leaves office. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 10/26/10 Internet-based fundraising group spends $5.5 million for Democrats -- A Democratic fundraising group called Act Blue California – it’s actually based in Massachusetts – has directed millions of dollars into California races this year, including more than $1 million to Gavin Newsom’s campaigns for governor and lieutenant governor. John Howard in Capitol Weekly -- 10/26/10 Steve Lopez: More worthwhile causes for Meg Whitman's $140 million -- For $140 million, Meg Whitman could have bought every man, woman and child in Ojai -- population 7,800 -- a brand new Toyota Corolla. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Baca asks Sheriff’s Department watchdog to examine his handling of donor’s case -- Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca asked his department’s watchdog Tuesday to review his handling of a case in which he was accused of giving preferential treatment to a long-time supporter who has donated to the sheriff’s political campaigns and given him expensive gifts. Robert Faturechi in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Team Meg Whitman charging media a whopping $2,000 for one day of travel? -- Maybe it's a metaphor for the entire California gubernatorial race, but we media folks just got the estimate of what it will cost to travel with candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown for the final days of the campaign. Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics -- 10/26/10 State panel to debate nuclear power -- State lawmakers are set Tuesday to discuss whether nuclear power should play a larger part in California's future, but the issue is already creating political fission at the Capitol. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Quinn: The Los Angeles Times poll- a second look -- In September, I wrote a critical article on the Los Angeles Times/USC Poll questioning the poll's methodology. I found it to be too heavily weighted to Democratic voters. Tony Quinn Fox & Hounds weblog -- 10/26/10
Carly Fiorina surging as Meg Whitman falls back -- The Republican woman who has the best chance to win in California on Nov. 2 is not billionaire Meg Whitman, who has spent more than $140 million of her own money to make sure every living thing knows who she is. It's Carly Fiorina, another former Silicon Valley CEO with thinner pockets but a looser campaign style who has drawn incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer into a dead heat. Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Boxer, Fiorina to blanket airwaves this week -- Get ready to hear a lot more from Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in the next few days. Chase Davis California Watch -- 10/26/10 Whitman will appoint only judges who support the death penalty -- The capital-punishment litmus test comes as Whitman, who is trailing in the polls despite spending more than $140 million of her own money on her campaign, sought to gain an edge with time running out before election day. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 10/26/10 Maria Shriver's Women's Conference abuzz with political gossip -- like Meg planning final $15-$18 million GOTV push? -- California First Lady Maria Shriver has done it again, put together the best political event of the year at her powerhouse Women's Conference -- an event packed with fabulous women and fabulous political gossip...like that raging rumor about Meg Whitman's possible last minute $15-18 million GOTV push? Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics -- 10/26/10 Older and wiser, Brown proudly embraces his father's legacy -- Jerry became governor eight years after his father, a self-described 'big government man,' lost a bruising race for a third term. Now the son who preached an 'era of limits' marvels at the elder Brown's accomplishments. Maura Dolan in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Feinstein hints she'll run again in 2012 -- There’s been much speculation about the plans of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — particularly with some prominent Democrats such as L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom potentially waiting in the wings for a chance to run for U.S. Senate. Maeve Reston in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Feinstein, in San Jose campaign event for Boxer, candidly admits political climate is 'bad' -- Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in a candid off-camera moment just before the start of a campaign event for her colleague Barbara Boxer in San Jose on Monday, was greeted by a reporter who asked how things are going. Her answer: "Bad." Karl Kahler in the Contra Costa Times -- 10/26/10 Times/USC Poll: For women, ideology trumps the gender card -- Female voters are judging Whitman and Fiorina more harshly than men, Times/USC poll finds. Cathleen Decker in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 CalBuzz: How eMeg Should Play Gender; Rove Boosts Lungren -- When Gov. Schwarzenegger, Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown join Matt Lauer, host of the “Today Show,” for a four-way here today at Maria Shriver’s star-studded Women’s Conference, it’s supposed to be a civil, genteel, collegial discussion of the problems facing the Great State of California titled “Who We Are, Where We Are Going.” Isn’t that nice? Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 10/26/10 Proposition 19 campaign will run TV ad in Los Angeles area -- The campaign to pass Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana in California, will hit television sets in the Los Angeles area Tuesday with a commercial that features retired San Jose Police Chief Joseph D. McNamara endorsing the initiative. John Hoeffel in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Democrats rat out non-voters to their Facebook friends -- The California Democratic Party unveiled a new tool in its kit of get-out-the-vote operations Monday: a first-of-its-kind Facebook application that sifts through a user’s friends list, matches it with the friends’ party registrations and voting histories and pops out a list people who vote Democratic but don’t regularly vote. Shane Goldmacher in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Kamala Harris filing complaint over GOP group's ad, 'shouting from the rooftops' about its backers -- An attorney for Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for California attorney general, on Monday said her campaign would immediately file a complaint with the state Fair Political Practices Commission regarding an "attack ad" against Harris being aired by a national Republican organization. Phil Willon in the Los Angeles Times Marisa Lagos in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Money flows into race for state insurance commissioner -- If money talks, then it's shouting at the top of its lungs in the California insurance commissioner's race. Jon Ortiz in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Walters: California's interconnected ballot measures -- A major factor in California's governmental dysfunction is that voters and legislators myopically make policy decrees that interact with other decrees, creating consequences that were never overtly intended. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Multibillionaire investor George Soros backs Proposition 19 -- George Soros, the multibillionaire investor who helped bankroll three initiatives to change drug laws in California, endorsed the marijuana legalization initiative Monday and plans to make a major financial contribution to the campaign. John Hoeffel in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Adwatch: First Prop. 19 ad cites disputed details as facts -- The Yes on Proposition 19 campaign went on the airwaves Monday with its first television commercial. The spot, featuring former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara, has begun running in the Los Angeles market. Peter Hecht in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 In Humboldt County, deputies' jobs can get hazy -- The region is a paradise for pot growers and an exasperating limbo for almost everyone else. 'I wish they would totally ban it … or just make it totally legal,' says one rural deputy. Sam Quinones in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 2 refiners chip in $1.5 million more to back California's Prop. 23 -- Two of the biggest backers of the effort to suspend the state's landmark climate change law contributed $1.5 million last week to the rollback initiative. Rick Daysog in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Prop. 23 may threaten budding clean-tech firms -- California's innovative energy policies helped lure Eric Dresselhuys' clean-tech company, Silver Spring Networks, to the state. David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Once in sync, 2 candidates for state superintendent of schools have diverged -- Tom Torlakson has stuck to his original message —uniting contentious factions to support more funding for schools. Larry Aceves now focuses on flaws in teacher evaluations, limiting tenure and the difficulty in firing teachers. Howard Blume in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 AD15: Dems pump $1.4 million into race -- The California Democratic Party and affiliated party central committees from throughout the state have dumped $1.42 million into the re-election bid of Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo. Lisa Vorderbrueggen Political Blotter -- 10/26/10 Victims’ group warned to adopt truthful name -- A victim advocacy group’s independent expenditure committee drew a written warning from the state’s campaign finance watchdog this month for failing to adopt a name that reflects its main funding source: the state prison guards’ union. Josh Richman Political Blotter -- 10/26/10 Sacramento County election officials predict 60 percent voter turnout -- Jill LaVine, Sacramento County's registrar of voters, said voter participation will likely be similar to the past four gubernatorial general elections, which had between 57 percent and 63 percent participation. Robert Lewis in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Pension measures grab California voters' interest -- From the beach towns of Carlsbad and Pacific Grove to agricultural Bakersfield, from Redding up north to Riverside down south, Californians will decide about a dozen local pension initiatives - more than the state's voters have ever faced at once. Heather Knight in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Oropeza celebrated at memorial service -- A crowd of about 550 family and friends, including a few local and state officials who have worked with or been influenced by Oropeza, shared stories about the lawmaker's life of public service at her funeral at Forest Lawn cemetery in Cypress. Paul Eakins in the Long Beach Press -- 10/26/10
New federal boost for high-speed rail -- California will receive an additional $902 million for high-speed and other intercity rail projects - including $715 million in the San Joaquin Valley and $16 million on the Peninsula, federal officials said Monday. Michael Cabanatuan in the San Francisco Chronicle Tim Sheehan in the Fresno Bee Dan Weikel in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Report: Contra Costa pension system's investments will run dry in 2025 -- Contra Costa may empty its retirement investment fund in 15 years, leaving the county and taxpayers responsible for $795 million in annual payments, two professors predict. Matthias Gafni in the Contra Costa Times -- 10/26/10 State website lists cities' and counties' employee compensation -- The state launched a website Monday on which Californians can see how much money cities and counties pay their workers, but dozens of municipalities have failed to file the information and could face fines of up to $5,000 unless they comply. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 California consumers still holding back -- Consumers are spending less yet feel better about the future, survey shows. Nate Jackson in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 Lawsuits accuse lenders of sabotaging mortgage modifications -- Although the foreclosure process is less complicated in California than in states where home seizures must be approved by judges, the litigation shows that borrower-servicer relationships can be contentious in the Golden State as well. E. Scott Reckard in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10
Schools face funding riddle with new state budget -- The new state budget looks like one that would make California school officials happy. Diana Lambert in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Fensterwald: Lessons from high-performing districts -- Impressive things are happening in little known districts like Sanger (10,000 students) and Hawthorne (9,000) as well as in bigger districts like Long Beach (the state’s third largest, with 88,000), Fresno (fourth largest), and Garden Grove (eleventh largest). John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 10/26/10 Legislative analyst: Beef up online college courses -- The office called on the community college, University of California and California State University systems to offer more Internet-based classes in order to improve college attendance and completion. Matt Krupnick in the Oakland Tribune Erica Perez California Watch -- 10/26/10 Despite capital region layoffs, a teacher shortage looms -- Even as laid-off teachers scour job ads, education experts say school districts are likely to face a massive teacher shortage when the economy recovers. Melody Gutierrez and Phillip Reese in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Russell: Whitman plan — school grades, charters, merit pay — is right for us -- Every four years, candidates for governor in California campaign on making our schools better. Jim Russell TopEd -- 10/26/10
Largest-ever solar project approved in California -- The Obama administration has approved a thousand-megawatt solar project on federal land in Southern California, the largest solar project ever planned on U.S. public lands. Matthew Daly AP -- 10/26/10
State opens new plan for people denied health coverage -- California opened the doors Monday on the first major piece of federal health reform to roll out here, a new state-run insurance pool for people who have been denied or priced out of private coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions. Dan Weintraub HealthyCal.org -- 10/26/10 State to audit nursing home care -- The state will be taking a closer look at how nursing homes care for patients, scrutinizing staffing levels and playing a role in evaluating patient satisfaction and staff turnover under a law signed last week by the governor. Christina Jewett California Watch -- 10/26/10 Mental health advocates sue state over funding -- A group of mental health and disability rights advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against state and local agencies in federal court last week to put a stop to the governor’s veto of a long-standing mental health program. Deia de Brito California Watch -- 10/26/10 Cabrera: Even teachers turning to free clinics -- The Ford family of Anaheim – at least the mother, father and one of the daughters – are teachers who, like a growing number others you'd probably think of as middle class, get most of their health care at a free clinic. YVETTE CABRERA in the Orange County Register -- 10/26/10
Former Bell police chief accused of quashing an internal investigation -- A police sergeant, who has since resigned and filed a whistle-blower suit, says he told Randy Adams about possible corruption involving city officials. Paul Pringle in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 San Francisco Giants fans scheme a way to be near the game -- Tickets for the first two World Series games at AT&T Park were selling on the Internet at recession-mocking prices Monday - north of $400 for a standing-room-only pass and as much as $6,100 to sit behind home plate like a maestro of the diamond. Demian Bulwa, Kevin Fagan in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Looking for World Series tickets? Be prepared to loan out your beach house -- San Francisco is often mocked as the home of dope-smoking socialists, but when the Giants meet the American League champion Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the Series on Wednesday evening, AT&T Park will be filled to overflowing with capitalist buccaneers. And not just on the field. Bruce Newman in the San Jose Mercury -- 10/26/10
California court throws out lawsuit questioning Obama's citizenship -- A state appellate court in Sacramento on Monday threw out a lawsuit claiming President Barack Obama is not eligible to occupy the White House because he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. Denny Walsh in the Sacramento Bee -- 10/26/10 Nancy Pelosi basks in Michelle Obama’s softer image -- Back in June, Nancy Pelosi dialed up Michelle Obama with a request: Would the first lady come to the speaker’s hometown for a big Democratic fundraiser? AMIE PARNES & GLENN THRUSH Politico -- 10/26/10
Saunders: Fundraising complaints signal party in trouble -- Here's a handy way to figure out which party expects to lose big in the next election: If its leaders are complaining about the unfairness of the other side raising buckets of money, that party is in trouble. Debra J. Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/26/10 Conservatives struggle to unify for voter outreach -- Republicans and 'tea party' activists have funneled millions into campaign ads. But their get-out-the-vote effort — crucial in the final week — is fractured and may give Democrats an edge. Tom Hamburger and Kathleen Hennessey in the Los Angeles Times -- 10/26/10 |
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