November 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
You've heard this before, but just in case the point didn't register, the National Institute for Money in State Politics last week decided to beat you over the head with it one more time: Self-funded political candidates almost always lose. Despite spending more than a quarter-billion...
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November 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
The Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United ruling earlier this year helped major corporations and other interest groups spend more than $5 million on California's Senate race without disclosing their contributors, according to independent spending reports analyzed by the Center for...
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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 29, 2010, 12:05 AM
When Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina didn’t show up at a Sarah Palin rally in Anaheim, she wasn’t just avoiding the darling of the Tea Party Movement. Fiorina also was ducking a political donor. On Aug. 5, nearly two months before Fiorina failed to appear at Palin...
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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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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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August 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
Like many good stories, this one starts with a simple question and ends with a lesson. First, rewind to last December. We knew GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina had at one point chaired an external advisory board charged with giving advice to the CIA (she's said as much on the stump). So...
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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 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
Appalachian coal interests pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into political campaigns each election cycle, but hardly any of the money finds its way into California campaigns. In the heartland, Big Coal is a powerful lobby. Some Midwestern states get more than 80 percent of their...
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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 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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June 28, 2010, 12:05 AM
Prominent CEOs of two of the most prominent corporations in California – and the world – have joined what could turn out to be one of the more significant efforts to get comprehensive immigration reform approved at a federal level. Mark Hurd, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co...
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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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May 18, 2010, 12:00 AM
See how California's Senate candidates are spending their campaign cash in the 2010 election.
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April 16, 2010, 12:08 AM
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department are investigating whether Hewlett-Packard Co. passed $11 million in kickback bribes to Russian officials in order to win contracts in the early 2000s, when Senate candidate Carly Fiorina was still the company's CEO, the Wall Street...
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