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California: Race for GOP Senate Nod Tight, Whitman Ahead for Governor
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFormer Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and state assemblyman Chuck DeVore are running neck-and neck for the GOP senate nomination in California, although with a large undecided vote, while former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has an 8 point lead over former Rep. Tom Campbell in the party's race for governor with state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner running way behind, according to a Los Angeles Times/USC poll conducted Oct. 27 - Nov. 3. ...
Gavin Newsom Drops Out, but Does California Wake Up?
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyFor most following the California gubernatorial race, it wasn't all that surprising that Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, decided to withdraw. Newsom, a Democrat who announced his candidacy via Twitter this past April, was always seen as a long-shot contender -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown, the state's former two-term governor who served before term limits were enacted, is an established politician who has widely been considered the front runner (though he hasn't officially declared). But Brown was not Newsom's only obstacle; there was also the issue of money. When he ran for ...
San Francisco Votes to Ban Cat Declawing
By David Knowles - AOL NewsBy a 9-2 vote, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a measure Tuesday making it a crime for pet owners to declaw their cats. Violators face a potential jail sentence of six months and fine of up to $1,000. The Los Angeles City Council plans to vote on a similar resolution Friday. "Declawing cats is cruel and a form of torture," said the San Francisco measure's author, Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the city's 5th District. "It has not proven to be medically necessary." In part, Mirkarimi and his counterparts brought the matter to a vote in order to beat a Jan. 1, 2010, deadline that ...
Gavin Newsom Quits California Governor's Race
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has withdrawn from the 2010 California governor's race, citing professional and family obligations. "This is not an easy decision," he said in a statement Friday afternoon. "But it is one made with the best intentions for my wife, my daughter, the residents of the city and county of San Francisco, and California Democrats." According to the Los Angles Times, the 42-year-old Newsom has repeatedly told friends he "did not want to embarrass himself" in the race. Despite having been in the race informally for more than a year, and formally since April, his ...
Brown Is Strongest Governor Prospect in California Field
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCalifornia Attorney General Jerry Brown leads San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom by a commanding 47 percent to 27 percent with 26 percent undecided in a match-up for the Democratic nomination for governor, but the picture is cloudier on the Republican side where 49 percent of voters are undecided, according to a Field poll conducted Sept. 18 - Oct. 5. ...
Jerry Brown Shows Strength in California Governor's Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCalifornia Attorney General Jerry Brown leads all Republican candidates in early match-ups for the 2010 governor's race, but the other Democrat seeking the office, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, trails the GOP hopefuls who were tested in a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Sept. 24. ...
Politech: What Twitter Hath Wrought and Hath Not
By Wesley Vaughn - Politics DailyLike a not-so-apocalyptic disease, Twitter has spread quickly around the country and provided both the media and politicians with a new toy to play with and discuss. This phenomenon has been framed in many different ways, but few have conveyed it entirely. Those on the outside of the strange world of Twitter hold common misconceptions, but even the twits (I think that's the right terminology) on the inside have yet to analyze all that is Twitter. ...
San Francisco Mayor Wants to Tax Cigarette Butts
By David Knowles - Politics DailySan Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to tax your butt. You know, the one that makes up roughly one third the length of a cigarette and routinely ends up littering the sidewalk. In an effort to deter smoking even further, and help defray the cost of paying to clean up all the discarded butts from streets and municipal drain pipes, Newsom, who has announced his intention to run for governor in California, would slap an additional 33 cents to the price of a pack of cigarettes. Needless to say, tobacco companies are not happy with this idea, that makes an already heavily taxed product even more ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley Files His Own Twitter Entries, Thank You Very Much
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyPoliticians have a complex relationship with the social networking fad-of-the-moment, Twitter.On the one hand you have the tech-savvy younger generation, who have used the microblogging service to do everything from launch a gubernatorial campaign (Gavin Newsom) to declare their heterosexuality (Charlie Crist).On the other hand, you have a bumbling older generation who either has no idea what Twitter is (Jim Bunning) or suddenly remembers that they invented the whole technology and enlists a staffer to "tweet" for them (John McCain).This week, Capitol Hill daily newspaper The Hill made an ...
Charlie Crist Loudly Mentions He Is Married
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyPoor Charlie Crist. Already distinguished as the governor of Florida, he is now trying to join the United States Senate-- the most powerful governing collective in the world-- and all the press wants to discuss is whether he spends his days craving man-flesh.As Politics Daily's own Matt Lewis has already reported, it took less than 48 hours for the "Crist is Gay" rumor mill to resurface on newstands after the governor came out as a Senate candidate.And Crist seems to have anticipated this all along. Consider his campaign announcement, delivered via Twitter...After thoughtful consideration with ...
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