January 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
Hollywood is threatening politicians with one thing they hold very dear: campaign cash. As anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress last week, the movie industry's top lobbyist, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, warned Democrats not to count on Hollywood money if they turn their backs on the...
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November 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
Politicos have been abuzz about insider trading this week, after a "60 Minutes" piece released Sunday detailed questionable stock-trading rules that do not prohibit members of Congress from trading on information they hear during the course of their lawmaking. But the issue should...
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November 3, 2010, 9:03 AM
Kamala Harris slight lead for attorney general Democrat Kamala Harris, the district attorney of San Francisco, has pulled ahead of Republican Steve Cooley in the race for California attorney general. Harris was receiving 46.1 percent of the vote compared to Cooley, the Los Angeles...
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October 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
Get ready to hear a lot more from Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in the next few days. After her most recent fundraising reports last week showed her running about $1 million behind Boxer in total cash on hand for the final push toward election day, Fiorina quickly loaned her...
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October 25, 2010, 12:05 AM
For all of the ink and airtime devoted to criticizing Republican Meg Whitman's stock deals, she's not the only top-of-the-ticket candidate who benefited from early access to initial public offerings, or IPOs. At least twice during her political career, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer turned...
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September 29, 2010, 11:59 AM
2:02 p.m. Closing attacks: In closing statements, both candidates focused on attacking their opponent. Boxer returned to her attack on Fiorina’s layoffs at HP. “She laid off 30,000 workers, shipped jobs overseas, and she says she’s proud of her record – well, that’s...
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September 27, 2010, 12:59 AM
Do American voters presume that a politician with a baby face is incompetent? Do they vote for him anyway? Three Scandinavian economists tackled these unusual electoral questions in a deadly-serious academic study published in the current number of the Journal of Experimental Social...
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August 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
Hewlett-Packard Co. is the ultimate rationale for Carly Fiorina’s U.S. Senate campaign. The Republican candidate was CEO of Hewlett-Packard for six years. She engineered the mega-merger with Compaq. She managed the “reinvention of the legendary company,” as her campaign...
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July 26, 2010, 12:05 AM
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has obtained about $63,000 in donations this year from Appalachian coal-mining interests, much of the money from an outspoken Ohio mine owner who dismisses global warming as “hysterical global goofiness.” In a cluster of transactions...
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July 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
Like most big companies, eBay has for years rained campaign cash on politicians who supported their interests and tithed to others they could call on for help in a pinch. But little did they know, several of those politicians would turn out years later to be its CEO's biggest rivals. While...
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July 9, 2010, 12:05 AM
Where did the candidates for California's most high-profile elected offices – Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina – get their education? None graduated from a public high school in California. San Francisco-born Attorney General Jerry Brown came the...
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May 26, 2010, 12:11 AM
Apparently undeterred by angry heckling and an eerie history of botched presidential visits, President Barack Obama touched down in San Francisco yesterday for a party or three in honor of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who looks to be facing a tough re-election bid in the fall. The events, which are...
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May 18, 2010, 12:00 AM
Demon Sheep ain't cheap. According to new spending data released by the Federal Election Commission, bizarro campaign ad man Fred Davis – the brains behind the infamous Demon Sheep and Hot Air ads for Carly Fiorina's GOP Senate campaign – has been the big winner so far in...
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January 2, 2010, 10:40 AM
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has taken a few lumps for her flattering endorsement of (and donation to) California GOP Enemy No. 1 Barbara Boxer during her 2004 re-election bid. But go back a couple more years, and it was Boxer heaping her own measure of praise upon the...
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