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Jerry Brown Reinvents Himself As Elder Statesman
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Jerry Brown sees himself as a regular guy who buys his suits on sale, drives around in a Ford Crown Victoria and enjoys dinner at home with his wife. What he wants Californians to see...
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Palin Finds Unlikely Admirer In John Mellencamp
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has found an admirer in John Mellencamp. The legendary rocker says that while he doesn’t support her positions, he is impressed by the...
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Poll: Brown Maintains Double-Digit Lead Over Whitman
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Democrat Jerry Brown holds a double-digit lead over Republican Meg Whitman in their contest for California governor less than a week before Election Day, according to a Field Poll...
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Nancy Pelosi Set To Run For House Minority Leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first female House speaker, said Friday she will try to keep her spot as leader of the House Democrats despite huge election losses that cost her party the...
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Former Loretta Sanchez Foe Convicted For Obstructing An Investigation
SANTA ANA (CBS) — Tan Duc Nguyen, a Republican candidate who twice failed to unseat Democrat Loretta Sanchez, got good news and bad news Tuesday. The good news: A federal jury could not reach a verdict...
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Obama Aide Expects No Democratic Rivals In 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s chief political adviser says he doesn’t think the president will face a primary challenge in 2012. David Axelrod tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that he sees...
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Jerry Brown Returns To Lead A Troubled California
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California’s 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the...
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Democratic Aides: Rep. Jane Harman To Resign From House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Democratic Rep. Jane Harman plans to resign from the House and is in line to become the next president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In an e-mail...
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Feinstein Makes Endorsement For Harman’s Congressional Seat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is endorsing a Los Angeles city councilwoman who is hoping to succeed Rep. Jane Harman in Congress. Monday’s announcement caps a string of early endorsements for...
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California Ethics Board Won’t Probe Schwarzenegger Affair
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s ethics commission has rejected a request by Los Angeles Democrats to investigate whether former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger violated state laws during his affair with a...
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Gov. Brown Vetoes State Budget Approved By Democrats
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday vetoed the state budget approved by Democratic lawmakers — a spending package that had Los Angeles- area city officials and education leaders scrambling...
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Oregon Congressman Resigns Over Sex Scandal Involving SoCal Woman
ORANGE COUNTY (CBS) — An 18-year-old Orange County woman says she was the victim of an unwanted sexual encounter with Congressman David Wu, prompting the Oregon lawmaker to resign. Within days of the...
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Southern California Congressman Buck McKeon Deflects Charges From Both Sides
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — With less than a week to go in the California primary, a powerful Southern California congressman finds himself facing his toughest test in more than a decade. Political reporter...
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Gov. Jerry Brown, Democrats Reach Deal On Remaining Calif. Budget
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders have struck an agreement on remaining cuts to California’s budget, people with direct knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press on...
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Opinion: The Second Coming Of W
Down to the trademark “W”, W. Mitt Romney is literally the second coming of the Bush economic strategy that led to the worst American economy since the Great Depression. Not only is Romney’s economic...
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Opinion: ‘Retroactively Retired’, A Laugher Even By Washington Standards
The demand for W. Mitt Romney to release his tax returns has become bipartisan. Conservative elected officials and pundits know that Romney is taking on so much water over his secrecy and questions of...
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House Ethics Committee Fines Long Beach Representative $10K
LONG BEACH (CBS) —Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) Wednesday was fined $10,000 by the House Ethics Committee for misusing her staff. The committee said Richardson forced her congressional staff to...
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More Than 17M Californians Registered To Vote For Presidential Election
SACRAMENTO (AP) — The secretary of state’s office reports that more than 17 million Californians are registered to vote ahead of the November presidential election, or nearly 73 percent of those who...
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Candidates In Tight 41st Congressional District Race Get Out The Vote
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — Candidates for California’s newly created 41st Congressional District are hitting the phones hard to get out the vote a week before Election Day. Democrat Mark Takano and...
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Community Activists Get Out The Vote Before Election Day
CULVER CITY (CBSLA.com) — Republican and Democratic community activists were getting out the vote Monday to make sure every last person turns out to the polls on Election Day. In Culver City,...
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