Category Archives: California

GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Election 2010: California Senate

California Senate: Boxer (D), Fiorina (R) Still Neck-and-Neck California’s U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina remains a virtual tie with less than two weeks to go until Election Day. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Boxer picking up 48% of the vote, while [...]

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Democrat says he’s heard Pelosi won’t run again for Speaker

By Michael O’Brien THE HILL A House Democratic lawmaker said late last week that he’d heard Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t seek another term as Speaker. Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) said that not only would he not back Pelosi (D-Calif.) for Speaker again, but also that he’d heard she would not seek another term in that position. [...]

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Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman spar over ‘whore’ quote in California debate

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN POLITICO SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – It took about 30 minutes for gubernatorial rivals Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown on Tuesday night to get at what debate moderator Tom Brokaw called the “100,000-pound gorilla in the room.” Brokaw let the Sacramento statehouse candidates duke it out first over tax and budget issues before [...]

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Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina Skipping Sarah Palin Event

By ANDY BARR | POLITICO Sarah Palin will be in California later this month for a major national Republican fundraiser, but the state’s two leading Republican women candidates won’t be there, POLITICO has confirmed. The event slated for Oct. 16 in Anaheim is being widely promoted by the Republican National Committee and conservatives in the [...]

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Nancy Pelosi: Prognosticator or Pinhead?

I can’t wait to hear Madame Speaker’s first interview after the 40 foot political tsunami rolls ashore Nov. 2 and sweeps her and the Democratic Party three miles inland. I wonder how she will try to spin her responses in the interview reposted below. I wonder how she will handle going from one of the [...]

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Jerry Brown or friend calls calling says Meg Whitman is a Whore audio video

I heard the venerable Charles Krauthammer say on FOXNEWS a few days ago, very much tongue-in-cheek, that the last 30 days before an election is “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” You can bet your last dollar that the mud-slingers will be slinging it with glee and abandon as we approach what Sean Hannity [...]

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Rasmussen Reports: California Senate: Boxer (D), Fiorina (R) Are Back In A Toss-Up

Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer’s bid for reelection in California against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina is once again a toss-up. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Boxer picking up 49% of the vote, her highest level of support since mid-July. Fiorina earns 45% support. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, [...]

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Greta Van Sustern is Mad as Hell and She’s Not Gonna Take it Anymore

Unless you have been meditating in a cave on the top of a mountain in the Himalayas, you no doubt are aware of the accusations by serial publicity seeker and leftie lawyer,Gloria Allred, that her client,Nikki Diaz, claims that California Governor Candidate Meg Whitman knew that Diaz was in the United States illegally when she [...]

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Fiorina: Boxer’s surge ‘predictable’

By DAVID CATANESE    POLITICO California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina says her recent slip in the polls is an expected result of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s considerable financial advantage in the pricey Golden State. And while Democrats are attempting to frame Boxer’s polling surge as a sign California is falling out of reach for the GOP, Fiorina [...]

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