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Jerry Brown feels the love as he heads home to Oakland on campaign's final day -- Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown capped his three-day, 13-city tour with a waterfront rally in Oakland on Monday, thanking supporters for their work and urging them to vote in Tuesday’s election. Michael J. Mishak in the Los Angeles Times David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert Josh Richman Political Blotter -- 11/1/10 State bans welfare cards at pot clubs, massage parlors -- California welfare recipients will no longer be able to use their state-issued debit cards at medical marijuana shops, psychics, massage parlors and many other businesses whose services have been deemed “inconsistent” with the goals of the program. Jack Dolan in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Whitman says GOP turnout will propel her to victory -- Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman rallied her volunteers Monday, saying that their efforts would push her to victory on election day. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 La Opinión: Latinos will not return -- Eight Democrats and one independent will leave their posts, leaving a gap in the State Legislature. Araceli Martinez Ortega La Opinión -- 11/1/10 Translated by Google (good, but not perfect). Mailer thanks Lois Wolk for vote against plastic-bag ban -- State Sen. Lois Wolk, a Davis Democrat with a strong pro-environment record, is the object of a thank-you mailer to constituents from a company worried about California eventually banning plastic carryout bags. Susan Ferriss SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 ‘Meg-mentum’ hits the OC -- Rallying volunteers in Costa Mesa, GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman predicted victory on Election Day. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Brown, Democrats rally in Los Angeles, Salinas -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, accompanied by the rest of the state Democratic ticket, rallied this afternoon in Los Angeles and Salinas before flying tonight to Oakland, where he is scheduled to finish the campaign with one final rally urging Democrats to vote. David Siders in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 Brown, Boxer and other top ticket Democrats rally -- Seven top candidates on the Democratic ticket came together Monday at a boisterous rally in downtown Los Angeles, where they kindled party support and warned about the consequences of Republican victories Tuesday. Kate Linthicum in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Whitman says GOP turnout will propel her to victory -- Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman rallied her volunteers Monday, saying that their efforts would push her to victory on election day. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 La Opinión: Latinos will not return -- Eight Democrats and one independent will leave their posts, leaving a gap in the State Legislature. Araceli Martinez Ortega La Opinión -- 11/1/10 Translated by Google (good, but not perfect). Mailer thanks Lois Wolk for vote against plastic-bag ban -- State Sen. Lois Wolk, a Davis Democrat with a strong pro-environment record, is the object of a thank-you mailer to constituents from a company worried about California eventually banning plastic carryout bags. Susan Ferriss SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Polls give GOP the edge in governors' races -- The latest surveys have Florida race and several others too close to call. Republicans expected to add six more governors' chairs for a total of 30. Michael Muskal in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 State GOP complains about Oropeza district mailer -- State Republicans filed a formal complaint Monday about a mailer in the 28th Senate District, contending it resembled an official communication from Secretary of State Debra Bowen but in fact was financed and sent by the state Democratic Party. John Howard in Capitol Weekly -- 11/1/10 Meg Whitman kicks off field office tour -- Voter turnout could make the difference for Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman in tomorrow's election, and the candidate is stressing that today by visiting three field offices around Southern California where volunteers are furiously reaching out to voters and urging them to vote. Jack Chang SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Incumbent Dan Lungren is showing signs of nervousness -- Rep. Dan Lungren is a rarity, a Republican incumbent who is nervous in a year when Republicans nationally seem to be on a role. Dan Morain in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 Sacramento-area job openings rise -- Job vacancies advertised online in the Sacramento area rose 38.2 percent in October compared with the same month last year, according to statistics released today by the Conference Board. Mark Glover in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 GOP: Bowen, Dems using 'illegal campaign tactics' in SD 28 -- Republicans have filed complaints accusing the state Democratic Party and Secretary of State Debra Bowen of using "illegal campaign tactics" to influence voters to cast a ballot for late Sen. Jenny Oropeza in the 28th Senate District. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Brown says he's ready to govern people 'openly committed to their inadequate ideas' -- Jerry Brown smiled. The Democratic gubernatorial nominee was halfway through his stump speech Monday morning in San Diego when the crowd in the courtyard of Café Coyote started chanting his name: “Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!” Michael J. Mishak in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Federal appeals court appears to support some parts of Arizona's immigration law and reject others -- A federal appeals court that is reviewing Arizona's tough new immigration law appeared inclined Monday to permit the state to require police to investigate the immigration status of people they have legally stopped but also seemed ready to reject more punitive provisions giving the state enforcement powers. Maura Dolan in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Fiorina predicts 'great victory in less than 36 hours' -- A confident Carly Fiorina swung through a Sacramento-area GOP phone banking center to rally supporters one day before voters head to the polls to determine the fate of her bid to unseat three-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. Shane Goldmacher in the Los Angeles Times Rob Hotakainen SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Absentees will play a large role in Tuesday's election -- Jerry Brown is so retro. His election-day schedule includes a trip to the polls, which is so very 1990s. Brown will take the traditional election-day photo-op at the polls in Oakland on Tuesday morning, according to his campaign schedule. Anthony York in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Brown on 'message discipline,' in necktie ahead of Election Day -- Jerry Brown, playing safe with a lead in the polls one day before the election, put his hand over his mouth and joked with reporters in San Diego this morning that he couldn't talk to them. David Siders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Good time for a rally, Jerry: Moments before Game 5 starts -- So here are your choices, Bay Area residents for 4:30 p.m. Monday: Joe Garofoli Chronicle Politics -- 11/1/10 Last-ditch efforts for Proposition 19 -- The campaign for Proposition 19, California’s marijuana legalization measure, is planning a get-out-the-vote rally from 10 to noon tomorrow outside Oakland City Hall, the latest indication that supporters don’t give a hoot what the polls say. Josh Richman Political Blotter -- 11/1/10 Fred Karger sets sights on presidential run -- Fred Karger labored in California's political vineyards for years, managing Republicans' campaigns for office, but made a national name for himself two years ago as a major player in the opposition to Proposition 8, the measure to outlaw same-sex marriage. Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Ashburn takes Election Day eve swipe at Runner -- GOP State Sen. Roy Ashburn has had a rocky relationship with some of his Senate Republican colleagues in recent years. Kevin Yamamura SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Parties pour last minute cash into state legislative races -- In the final days of the election, the state Democratic and Republican parties are continuing to send cash into top state legislative battles. Both also used some dough boost down-ticket candidates running for statewide office. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 11/1/10 Schrag: The Paranoid Style of Politics -- One of the very few memorable statements ever attributed to Calvin Coolidge was uttered in response to a report he’d received that he was being double-crossed in Congress.” Peter Schrag Cal Progress Report -- 11/1/10 Cruickshank: Why Nancy Pelosi Must Remain Speaker -- Here in California, what looked like a potentially disastrous election might not turn out so badly after all. Robert Cruickshank (Calitics) Cal Progress Report -- 11/1/10 Fox: No on 25/Yes on 26 -- The direction the state will take on the big issues of taxing and spending will be set by tomorrow's election. Joel Fox Fox & Hounds weblog -- 11/1/10
Field Poll: Props. 19, 23 trailing; Prop. 25 support continues -- A Field Poll released today shows that ballot measures to legalize marijuana and to suspend the state's greenhouse-gas law both could go up in smoke on Tuesday. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 11/1/10 Candidates and their supporters pull out all the stops -- As the nominees speed around the state, thousands of volunteers use telephones, the Internet and their feet to try to reach voters, motivated by the potential for surprise on Tuesday. Seema Mehta and Michael J. Mishak in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Whitman greets trick-or-treaters in Carpinteria -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman handed out candy to trick-or-treaters Sunday evening and mingled with their parents at a home in Carpinteria. Seema Mehta in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Brown gets loose; Whitman projects confidence -- Jerry Brown, campaigning throughout the state in one final push before Election Day, was running late at a campaign stop in Chico on Sunday, and in the audience an aide held up his hand. David Siders and Jack Chang in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 Whitman, Brown a portrait in contrasting styles -- With less than 48 hours to go before California voters head to the polls in an election season that seemed to last forever, the contrasting moods and styles of gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman were on full display Sunday. Steven Harmon, Josh Richman and Ken McLaughlin in the Contra Costa Times -- 11/1/10 Jerry, Meg: The Wee Small Hours -- Jerry Brown was making his way out of a packed diner in downtown Chico. He'd just given a thorough, though a bit rambling, defense of why he is asking voters to again elect him as governor. John Myers Capitol Notes weblog -- 11/1/10 Brown jokes about his political future at Northern California campaign stops -- Jerry Brown rallied hundreds of supporters at a downtown Chico mall Sunday, arguing that investments in renewable energy would help lead California out of recession. Michael J. Mishak in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 In anti-incumbent year, Jerry Brown's "comeback kid" tour has Democrats (and Brown) celebrating political endurance (VIDEO) -- There's no script, no stump speech, no set-in-stone "message" -- and definitely no handlers as 72-year-old Jerry Brown, California's former two-term governor, barnstorms the state in his historic quest to be 2010's "comeback kid." Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics -- 11/1/10 Jerry Brown denies reports he's tapped former Gov. Gray Davis for transition team -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown says he seeks a lot of opinions from around California -- and denies the report from former Speaker Willie Brown suggesting he has tapped former Gov. Gray Davis to help run his transition team. Carla Marinucci Chronicle Politics -- 11/1/10 CalBuzz: Excloo: Long-Lost “Apocalypse Brown” Tape Found -- On the bitter cold Friday night of March 28, 1980, outside the State Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, the famed film director Francis Ford Coppola produced a 30-minute TV infomercial that effectively ended California Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign for president. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 11/1/10 As gubernatorial election approaches, donors play both sides -- Over the last two weeks, more than two dozen major campaign donors to Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have been scrambling to hedge their bets. Chase Davis California Watch -- 11/1/10 Saunders: Polls may mislead in California governor's race -- Former Gov. Pete Wilson is the only politician to have beaten Jerry Brown in an election. Debra J. Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 11/1/10 Fiorina courts voters in Palm Desert -- Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Sunday started her whirlwind get-out-the-vote tour in the Republican enclave of Palm Desert inside a packed Keedy’s Fountain Grill, an old-fashioned breakfast joint and malt shop named the region’s “best greasy spoon" by Palm Springs Life magazine. Phil Willon in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Boxer campaigns with labor allies, says Fiorina walks "on that far right lane" -- Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer turned her efforts to getting out the vote Sunday, sprinting across Los Angeles County from a morning service at a predominantly African American church in South L.A., to a Latino-focused phone bank run by labor supporters in El Monte, before rounding out her schedule revving up volunteers at a voter call center in Harvard Heights. Maeve Reston in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Can Fiorina surmount Boxer's damning portrayal of her on TV? -- In mid-September, many California voters got their first introduction to Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, and it was not a pleasant one. Mike Zapler in the Contra Costa Times -- 11/1/10 Why did Valero launch Prop. 23? -- In the most closely watched environmental election fight in the country, national conservation groups, Silicon Valley moguls, Hollywood celebrities and California politicians have waged a scorched-earth campaign against Valero Energy Corp., the nation's biggest independent oil refiner and the principal backer of Proposition 23, a Nov. 2 ballot measure to suspend California's ambitious global-warming law. Margot Roosevelt in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Skelton: Inside the nine ballot propositions -- Nine state propositions are on Tuesday's ballot — all of them important, most of them wonky and sleep-inducing. All are initiatives given life by voter signatures, collected mostly by special interests. George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Both sides of Prop. 19 battle deploy law enforcement officials -- Joseph D. McNamara, a retired San Jose police chief, is the face of the 'yes' campaign. But most local, state and federal crime fighters oppose it. John Hoeffel in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Walters: New 'Big Four' promise big impact -- Polls tell us that all but a handful of Californians are very unhappy with the direction of the state and hunger for change, even if they disagree vehemently on what kind of change it should be. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 Gavin Newsom win means fight over successor -- If San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wins his race for lieutenant governor Tuesday, about the only certainty is that Board of Supervisors President David Chiu will automatically be the acting mayor for the five days after Newsom is sworn in. After that, the fight to succeed Newsom could turn into a real donnybrook. Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 11/1/10 State insurance commissioner race unusually heated -- The governor's race is getting more attention, but the campaign for state insurance commissioner might have higher stakes, as federal health care reform barrels toward California. Carolyn Jones in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 11/1/10 Ad Watch: Anti-Harris spot has its death-penalty facts straight -- The Republican State Leadership Committee's $1.6 million advertising campaign attacking Kamala Harris' opposition to the death penalty is a lightning rod for both sides in the attorney general's race. Jim Sanders in the Sacramento Bee -- 11/1/10 Maldonado's Latino Balancing Act -- He's the farmworker's son whom farmworkers now distrust, but his political ambitions are all American Gerry Shih Bay Citizen -- 11/1/10 Stimulus bill plays a larger role in campaigns than in some voters' lives -- Many voters can't see any direct benefit from the federal money, even when they live near a marquee infrastructure project. They see a static economy but differ on what that means for candidates. Maeve Reston in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82 in New York -- Theodore Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday. He was 82. Verena Dobnik AP -- 11/1/10
San Diego sales tax proposal reflects a deep divide -- The months of debate over San Diego’s proposed sales-tax hike — to be decided in Tuesday’s election — has essentially boiled down to two points: • Can the city adequately protect the public without more money? • Can a city government that has made serious financial missteps in the past be trusted with $510 million in new tax revenue? Craig Gustafson and Jen Lebron Kuhney in the San Diego Union-Trib -- 11/1/10
Pension crisis is in the limelight, but solutions won't come easy -- The broken system has invited abuse by some egregious offenders — such as Bell's Robert Rizzo. But a more pressing problem is the ever-more-generous benefits spread across the government workforce. Catherine Saillant in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 L.A. County workers see major pay increases -- Amid the worst recession in modern history, the salaries of top Los Angeles County officials have shot up 12 to 45 percent in three years and some public servants are now making more than $400,000 annually in total compensation, according to county records. Troy Anderson in the San Gabriel Tribune -- 11/1/10 Vallejo plans to exit bankruptcy by next fall -- This San Francisco Bay-area city hopes to emerge from bankruptcy by late summer or early fall of next year, ending more than three years of widely watched legal insolvency that produced a landmark ruling overturning a labor contract. Ed Mendel Calpensions.com -- 11/1/10 Millions of homeowners keep paying on underwater mortgages -- The payments absorb billions of dollars that might be used for other forms of consumer spending, creating a drag on the overall economy. Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10
State officials withhold charter school data -- The Los Angeles Unified School District has been forced to file a California Public Records Act request with the California Department of Education to get test scores of students at about 150 charter schools authorized to operate within the district's borders. Louis Freedberg California Watch -- 11/1/10 Fensterwald: Lawmakers urged to restore CALPADS budget -- Speaking no doubt for many of his peers, the data administrator overseeing compliance with CALPADS for Long Beach Unified is urging the Legislature to quickly restore money that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed for the besieged statewide student data system. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 11/1/10
Solar farm sparks heated debate in California's Panoche Valley -- San Benito County officials support a proposed Solargen facility just south of San Francisco Bay, but local farmers and ranchers say it will ruin their livelihoods and further endanger some species. Louis Sahagun in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Flame out: wet weather, cool summer kept 2010 fire season to historically mild levels -- A near-perfect string of weather events from the Bay Area to Los Angeles -- late spring rains, cool summer temperatures and fall showers starting in mid-October -- is turning 2010 into the mildest fire season in 20 years, a rare respite after several recent years of explosive wildfire seasons. Paul Rogers in the San Jose Mercury -- 11/1/10
Report criticizes doctor discipline under state attorney general -- A costly new method of prosecuting questionable doctors has not resulted in better enforcement, according to a management consultant hired by the state. Christina Jewett California Watch -- 11/1/10 Co-payments for many preventive medical services for most workers are about to disappear -- The new federal healthcare law aims to encourage employees to get routine screenings and checkups that could help lower medical costs. Bruce Japsen in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Contraception could be free under health care law -- Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar AP -- 11/1/10 E-cigarette maker agrees to stop targeting kids -- The largest maker of electronic cigarettes has agreed to stop targeting minors and claiming that its "e-cigarettes" are a safe alternative to smoking. Deia de Brito California Watch -- 11/1/10
Obama prepared to dust off veto pen should GOP take the House -- Democrats and White House aides said that Obama is prepared to wield his veto pen and effectively stare down Republicans should they have a successful Election Day. Sam Youngman The Hill -- 11/1/10
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin -- Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin. MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI Politico -- 11/1/10 Mightier than the 'tea party': The American non-voter -- The real majority in the midterm elections will be those who just skip it. Non-voters are younger, poorer, less educated and more liberal than likely voters. Michael Muskal in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 In 2012, campaign finance trends expected to grow -- Heavy, unregulated spending has helped the GOP mount effective challenges in many races. Democrats say they will adapt ahead of the next national vote. Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger in the Los Angeles Times -- 11/1/10 Nancy Pelosi's survival skills face daunting test -- The speaker's lobby and its hallways just off the U.S. House chamber are hung with portraits of all 51 former speakers: each male, each long gone, some famous, most forgotten: Henry Clay and Joseph Cannon, Thomas Foley and Jim Wright, Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert. Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 11/1/10 |
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