August 23, 2011, 12:05 AM
Every year, California politicians receive gifts from supporters and friends – sports tickets, bottles of wine, trinkets and other items that by law can be worth no more than $420 apiece. For the most part, the gifts are ignored by the press and the public. But every so often, one stands...
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August 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
The semiannual state campaign filing deadline passed this week, and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't being shy about his future ambitions. The onetime gubernatorial candidate raised nearly $300,000 in the first six months of this year, far outpacing the state's other major officeholders as they...
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December 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
What? You say you haven't gotten your fill of debates, robocalls, and Two Minutes Hate attack ads that owned the airwaves for two months while the leaves were turning orange? You're in luck: Plenty of politicians seem to agree with you. About a month removed from one of the more...
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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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September 21, 2010, 12:05 AM
Mayor Gavin Newsom will get some help from one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful players next month when former President Bill Clinton arrives in California to lend his support in the still-too-close-to-call lieutenant governor’s race. For Newsom, it’s not a moment too...
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September 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
As the Bay Citizen noted, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was “conspicuously absent” from the City Hall steps last month when a cheering crowd gathered to celebrate the landmark ruling overturning Prop. 8. Newsom’s early and defiant support of same-sex marriage – in...
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