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Romney says Rubio is being vetted for VP slot -- Mitt Romney on Tuesday said that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is being “thoroughly vetted” as a vice presidential candidate, rejecting reports that the freshman senator is not being considered for the job. Jonathan Easley The Hill Michael Finnegan in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 Dan Lungren defends embattled Sacramento GOP voter drive -- Rep. Dan Lungren has come to the defense of a Sacramento County Republican Party voter registration drive he supported but has come under fire for filing potentially fraudulent registration cards. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/19/12 Democrats not done with California budget -- Democratic lawmakers say they balanced California's budget and passed it on time for the second year in a row—an achievement they say will begin to restore public confidence in the state Legislature. But is the budget really done? No. JUDY LIN Associated Press -- 6/19/12 Panel OKs military funeral protest limits -- Legislation to set limits on protests at military funerals continues to advance through the Legislature, inching closer to another showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown. Michael Gardner UT San Diego -- 6/19/12 Vote remains close on Prop. 29 tobacco tax ballot initiative -- The vote count for the June 5 tobacco tax ballot initiative remained tight Tuesday as elections officials across California continued tallying hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots. Phil Willon LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/19/12 California braces for Supreme Court healthcare ruling -- As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hand down its ruling on the federal healthcare law championed by President Obama, advocates in California are bracing for the worst, and hoping that California might be able to forge its own path if the law is overturned. Anthony York LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/19/12 House GOP bill would block Obama's immigration policy shift -- Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) has introduced the “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” legislation that would block the president’s action — and exposes the ongoing divide in the GOP on immigration issues in an election year. Lisa Mascaro in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 California State Bar argues for law licenses for the undocumented -- In precedent-setting case, agency tells California Supreme Court an undocumented man should be granted a law license even though his ability to work would be restricted. Maura Dolan in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 Senate committee refuses to block media access to 911 calls -- California legislation that would have restricted -- and possibly eliminated -- news media access to recordings of 911 emergency calls died in the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/19/12 Bill to protect privacy of police officers stalls in Senate -- A measure that would allow the home addresses of current and former law enforcement officers and judges to be redacted from public property records has stalled in the state Senate amid concerns that it would be abused. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/19/12 Sit-in at Oakland's Lakeview Elementary School continues, despite eviction notices -- Demonstrators, their tents and their signs of protest remained at Lakeview Elementary School by Lake Merritt on Tuesday morning, four days after the last day of school. Katy Murphy and Anna Gallegos in the Oakland Tribune -- 6/19/12 UC Berkeley aims to eliminate all its nonrecyclable waste by 2020 -- The Pacific Ocean's immense garbage patch has a new foe: UC Berkeley. Matt Krupnick in the Contra Costa Times -- 6/19/12 Two lawmakers tee it up for campaign coffers -- but in Arizona -- Bill Berryhill and Steve Knight are planning a two-day golfing "Duel In The Desert" featuring the two incumbent Republican assemblymen, who currently are running for separate state Senate seats. Now the kicker: The event is in Arizona. Jim Sanders SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/19/12 Mendocino County Board of Supervisors support TV deal -- Mendocino County supervisors on Tuesday narrowly approved allowing reality television filmmakers to document Mendocino County's marijuana eradication operations. GLENDA ANDERSON in the Santa Rosa Press -- 6/19/12 Monograph parses Tom Bates and East Bay's complex politics -- How did the East Bay - Oakland and Berkeley specifically - evolve from a conservative Republican bastion into a region with a global reputation for left-wing politics? Dan Walters SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/19/12 Marco Rubio isn’t being seriously vetted by Romney campaign, adviser confirms -- Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search team is not seriously vetting Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), one of the Republican Party’s brightest young stars, as the all-but-certain GOP nominee increasingly gravitates toward more experienced but less charismatic leaders as a potential running mate. Philip Rucker in the Washington Post -- 6/19/12 Health reform with a mandate: the Massachusetts story -- Over the course of five years, insurance coverage in the state has increased, premiums have decreased and virtually everyone has abided by the new requirement. Sarah Kliff in the Washington Post -- 6/19/12 Republican border bill could affect California parks -- The House on Tuesday is debating legislation, HR 1505, by Utah Republican Rob Bishop that would override environmental and other protections on lands within 100 miles of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, handing unrestricted access to such areas to the Department of Homeland Security. Carolyn Lochhead Chronicle Politics -- 6/19/12 Dem hopes of taking House dim -- Democratic hopes of recapturing the House are dimming as a series of race-by-race setbacks and economic uncertainty suggest that the 25 seats they need to net might be out of reach. Cameron Joseph The Hill Joe Garofoli Chronicle Politics -- 6/19/12 Dems say GOP willing to sacrifice the country to defeat Obama in '12 -- House Democratic leaders this week are intensifying accusations that Republicans want to sink the economy simply to defeat President Obama in November. Mike Lillis The Hill -- 6/19/12 Mitch McConnell Waiting on Mitt Romney on DREAM Act -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he’s waiting for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to announce a position on whether he supports deporting young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children. Steven T. Dennis Roll Call -- 6/19/12 An autism crusader runs for U.S. Senate -- Elizabeth Emken has no small feat ahead of her: She wants to be a United States senator and the only thing standing in her way is Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein. Mandy Honeychurch Capitol Weekly -- 6/19/12 Microsoft Surface vs. Apple’s iPad -- Microsoft’s announcement about its Surface tablets left a lot of unanswered questions. One key point that will help determine how the tablet does in the market has yet to be determined — the price. Hayley Tsukayama in the Washington Post -- 6/19/12
California Dems resist Gov. Brown's welfare plans -- California legislators may have passed a budget, but Democratic leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown are fighting to a standoff over his proposal to restructure the state's welfare program. JUDY LIN Associated Press -- 6/19/12 California schools facing shorter year -- Sydney Walker is scared. She is worried her children, who attend San Juan Unified schools, won't be prepared for college or classes next year if state lawmakers allow school districts to cut the school year by as many as 15 days. Diana Lambert in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/19/12 Darrell Steinberg defends CA budget, aims for completion this week -- Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, defended the Legislature's deadline passage of a main budget bill Friday without most of the implementing language, responding to critics who suggested lawmakers had rushed through a plan to maintain their pay. Kevin Yamamura in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/19/12 Will the state budget wrap this week? -- Only in Sacramento could lawmakers meet the deadline for passing a budget and still not have a spending plan. BRIAN JOSEPH in the Orange County Register -- 6/19/12 High-speed rail, pensions and budget all on Capitol agenda -- The next two weeks are expected to be busy ones in the state Capitol. For starters, Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown continue to haggle over the incomplete budget sent by lawmakers to the governor’s desk Friday. Anthony York in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 Walters: California now has a half-budget -- So does California have a new state budget, or not? It has about a half-a-budget, or perhaps more accurately, a half-baked budget. Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/19/12 Bill to muzzle agencies on tribal issues shelved -- State Sen. Joel Anderson on Monday shelved legislation that aimed to silence state agencies from speaking out against applications by Indian tribes to annex land for certain purposes. Michael Gardner UT San Diego -- 6/19/12 Proposition 25 halts long, bickering summers over California budget -- Critics have questioned whether Proposition 25 has any teeth after Democrats approved a budget last week and continue to get paid -- even while they are still working on the spending plan this week. Steven Harmon in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/19/12 CalBuzz: Past as Prologue: Why Difi Goes Nuts Over Leaks -- Our 2012 Exit Poll and Office Pool Desk is still conducting its internal review of how our projection models of the primary vote for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination turned out so wrong. The guys failed to forecast that odds-on favorite Orly Taitz would lose narrowly to Elizabeth Emken by, um, 439,209 votes. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine CalBuzz -- 6/19/12 L.A. Fire Department's data expert steps down after less than 3 months -- Jeffrey Godown was brought in after flaws were found in the accuracy of the department's performance data. He will continue working as a consultant. Kate Linthicum, Ben Welsh and Robert J. Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 Fueled by immigration, Asians are fastest-growing U.S. group -- Surpassing the influx of Latinos, Asian Americans lead the general public in education and income, according to the Pew Research Center. Rebecca Trounson in the Los Angeles Times$ Joe Garofoli in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/19/12
Immigration reprieve means thousands of new workers in California -- As thousands of young illegal immigrants consider openly applying for work permits under a new Obama administration directive, they dream of jobs they could never find in the shadows. Matt O'Brien in the San Jose Mercury -- 6/19/12 San Bernardino County County studies eminent domain to address mortgage crisis -- San Bernardino County is poised to enter into an agreement that could provide a unique approach to assisting underwater homeowners - using eminent domain to seize ownership of their loans. Joe Nelson in the Inland Daily Bulletin -- 6/19/12 Tesla Motors to ship new electric car built in Fremont -- Tesla Motors this week will begin delivering its new Model S, manufactured in Fremont, to customers. Tesla CEO Elon Musk will hand-deliver keys to a select group of early reservation holders during Friday ceremonies at the factory in Fremont. Mark Glover in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/19/12 Tesla has a lot riding on Model S sedan's success -- On a gleaming white factory floor in Fremont, workers buzz over freshly assembled cars that represent the future of Tesla Motors. David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/19/12 Higher pension costs could force Fresno County's debt to grow -- The California State Controller's Office has informed the county that, in three years, state and federal funds no longer will help pay down debt on local pension expenses -- the result of stricter federal funding rules. The policy would leave the county on the hook for an additional $36 million, payable over four years. Kurtis Alexander in the Fresno Bee -- 6/19/12 Oakland Army Base project brings battle over jobs -- Oakland is on the verge of starting its largest development project in decades with the conversion of the former Oakland Army Base into a shipping and distribution facility, a project that will substantially bolster shipping at the Port of Oakland and bring thousands of jobs to the city. Matthai Kuruvila in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/19/12
Need a shoe shine? Assemblyman Das Williams will do it -- In need of a shoe shine? Assemblyman Das Williams is at your service. Torey Van Oot SacBee Capitol Alert -- 6/19/12
California board begins tax compliance sweeps -- More than 17,700 retailers and small businesses in 34 counties will be getting letters – and eventually a knock on the door – from the State Board of Equalization, starting this week. Claudia Buck in the Sacramento Bee -- 6/19/12
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California -- More than any other group in California, African Americans stand to gain the most significant lift out of poverty from earning a college degree, according to a new report. Erica Perez California Watch -- 6/19/12 East Los Angeles College summer school turns away many students -- First day of school at the only L.A. Community College campus offering a full menu of summer courses left many students stranded as classes quickly filled up. Carla Rivera in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 California lawmakers target linking of student IDs to test scores -- State lawmakers weighed in Monday against a controversial practice in which schools issue student IDs and notebooks that are color-coded to show how the student did on standardized testing. Patrick McGreevy LA Times PolitiCal$ -- 6/19/12 Fensterwald: California’s first-class Dreamers -- Beatriz, the daughter of house cleaners, and Chava, the son of tamale and ice cream makers from San Jose, will enroll this fall in the University of California at Merced – an event they viewed as unattainable until two months ago. John Fensterwald educatedguess -- 6/19/12
California hospitals collect duplicate payments for spinal surgeries -- California hospitals got paid twice, to the tune of $67.5 million in 2010, for spinal surgeries performed on workers’ compensation patients. That's according to a new study from the California Workers' Compensation Institute. Bernice Yeung California Watch -- 6/19/12 Trauma in the ER: Who covers the uninsured? -- If the Supreme Court strikes down Obama's health insurance mandate, hospitals still must treat all emergencies — and everyone pays. Noam N. Levey in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12 Loneliness lethal for seniors, UCSF study says -- Feeling lonely always hurts, but when it comes to the elderly, it may actually contribute to failing health or an early death, UCSF researchers say. Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/19/12
Feds say design flaw led to California nuke plant woes -- Federal regulators said Monday that a botched computer analysis resulted in design flaws that are largely to blame for unprecedented wear in steam tubes at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, but it isn't clear how the problems can be fixed. MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press -- 6/19/12
Milbank: Occupy Wall Street movement has hit a wall -- The Occupy movement is preoccupied. In October, when liberal activists gathered in Washington, they had hopes that the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement would become the left’s answer to the tea party. Dana Milbank in the Washington Post -- 6/19/12
Pot activists in San Diego fail in bid for ballot measure -- San Diego marijuana activists Monday conceded defeat in their bid to qualify a ballot measure that would permit dispensaries to operate legally within the city. Tony Perry in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12
Barack Obama's group therapy -- President Barack Obama’s campaign wants to turn Mitt Romney into the candidate of old, straight, white men. Of course, his aides would never state it so crudely. But that’s the unmistakable aim of their political strategy of the past two months. JIM VANDEHEI and MIKE ALLEN Politico -- 6/19/12
Romney, cows and ice cream: Targeting conservative, white 'backbone' -- Obama has the cities? Well, Mitt Romney is aiming to strengthen the GOP core -- older white and blue-collar voters. And he has something to pin his effort on: the economy. Michael Finnegan in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/19/12
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