MORE ON: governor's race

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are in a dead heat in the governor’s race, but 18 percent of voters are still undecided a month before the election, a new Public Policy Institute of California survey says. The survey, released last night, was completed before Tuesday’s first... + read more

Jerry Brown has always had a unique way of dealing with the press. To hear other Capitol reporters tell it, he is at times prickly, often highly unorthodox (last spring, he challenged a reporter to an impromptu pull-up contest), and generally more accessible and candid than most politicians at... + read more

Even as gubernatorial campaign spending has skyrocketed in recent years, fewer and fewer voters have been turning out to the polls in state primary elections, according to a study released late last week by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The study [PDF] concludes that the... + read more

By now, we all know Meg Whitman has spent enough on her gubernatorial campaign to run some small countries – $99 million and counting – while Jerry Brown, playing the pauper, has spent a little more on his entire campaign than Whitman has spent on postage (yes, really). But... + read more

In political fundraising, as in life, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., once again gears up his national fundraising apparatus for another shot at the presidency, many of the big donors supporting him in California have also given... + read more

Since June 3, GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman raised another $20.733 million for her campaign. Once again, almost all of the money came in a donation from herself. Whitman plunked down another $20 million yesterday, raising the personal funds she’s invested in the governor... + read more

Here's something else to blame on BP - voters aren't thrilled with power companies, even in California. Proposition 16 - which would have required a two-thirds public vote to disconnect from PG&E and create public power agencies - was pretty much dead this morning, with only 47.5... + read more