Tag: Jerry Brown

The Los Angeles Times reports that California state legislators being wooed by corporate interests and lobbyists at conferences taking place on Maui this winter. More than twenty legislators will be feted at luxury resorts so the corporations can make their pitch,

The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board on Monday predicted that a new crime wave could soon be coming to California, based on state voters’ decision to pass Proposition 47, legislation that mandates a downgrade of several felony crimes to misdemeanors.

Momentum–of a sort–is building behind the idea that California governor Jerry Brown ought to run for President in 2016. On Friday, the same day that former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown argued that Hillary Clinton might lose after all unless

SACRAMENTO, California — In 2016, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will be up for re-election for the fifth time. California’s junior Senator was first elected in 1992, in a close race that she won by just under 5% of the

Away from all the national bleeding and great gnashing of teeth in the Democratic Party, the sun is shining bright for newly reelected Governor Jerry Brown as he picked up his second solvency award with a state credit upgrade from

Gov. Jerry Brown, defiant in the wake of the massive GOP victory on Tuesday, insists that his pet project, the state’s $68-billion bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, will not die, despite GOP opposition. Brown said of the

Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari may have lost decisively to Governor Jerry Brown, but he won more than 40% of the statewide vote, an important threshold that may establish a foundation for his future political ambitions. Moreover, at 41.3% of

Tuesday was the worst day in the recent history of the Democratic Party–worse, by far, than the 2010 elections or even the 1994 “revolution.” It was bad because Democratic leaders insisted until the end that they would hold the Senate;

An inner split within the Democratic Party has gone public, as the race for the post of California state superintendent of public instruction is pitting labor groups, notably the nations’ teachers’ unions, against education-reform supporters.  Tom Torlakson, the current superintendent,

Politics can be dirty, but also funny. For example, see some guerrilla political street art in California. Poster art making fun of Governor Jerry Brown appeared in Los Angeles on utility boxes and cables near Paramount Studios, the Hollywood Bowl,

Jerry Brown won an unprecedented fourth term as California Governor defeating Republican Neel Kashkari, a former George W. Bush treasury official who never really had a chance against the seventy-six year old Democrat. Four decades after becoming governor for the

Gov. Jerry Brown has not been campaigning much in 2014. Up roughly 20 points in the polls, he has not needed to describe his policy proposals for a 4th term, much less reach out to voters for their support. Yet

The latest Field Poll, released Thursday, shows that in every single statewide contest that pits a Republican against a Democrat, the latter has a substantial lead. The only race that appears to be competitive as Election Day approaches is the

With all sails up and heading downwind, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is on course to win an unprecedented fourth term as governor in California, 40 years after he won his first. The Orange County Register has Brown leading opponent Neel

On Friday, Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte–an illegal alien criminal–allegedly shot and killed two sheriff’s deputies in the Northern California counties of Sacramento and Placer. He also allegedly shot another man in the head for resisting a car-jacking. Monroy-Bracamonte had been deported twice before

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, lobbying hard for his the city, has made his sixth trip to Washington D.C. since he was sworn as mayor, the Los Angeles Times reports. Garcetti fended off criticism of his jet-setting, saying, “You are always criticized

A new Public Policy Institute of California poll reveals that the huge lead California Governor Jerry Brown holds over his challenger, Neel Kashkari, can be attributed to one salient factor: Brown’s massive lead among Latino voters. The poll’s data show

The California Department of Public Health has established an Ebola hotline to calm panicked residents, as two Sacramento-area residents are being monitored for possible symbols of the deadly hemmorhagic fever. In a statement Tuesday, state public health director Dr. Ron Chapman

Arthur Laffer made his name as the USC professor who helped give credibility to the Reagan Administration’s supply-side economics, based on the idea that higher tax rates inadvertently result in lower taxes collected.  But California Governor Jerry Brown’s recent State of

A nurse from Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medial Center has reported that she and a host of nurses at her hospital and throughout California are still not prepared to handle the Ebola virus. She also pointed to the questionability of

Frank Oliveira says that he and a group of Central Valley farmers who oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s “bullet train” plan are getting really good at playing whack-a-mole.  The co-chair of Citizens for California High-Speed Rail Accountability (CCHSRA) says that with

California’s Gov. Jerry Brown, cruising to likely re-election in November, is presenting himself not just as the most experienced leaders in the Golden State, but as a conservative one. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Brown promised to

On Friday, Governor Jerry Brown said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that as California takes steps to prepare for the possibility of Ebola’s arrival, the state should avoid making the same mistakes that were made in Texas. The

Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari has infused another $1 million of his own money into his campaign. Friday’s million-dollar addition brings Kashkari’s personal contributions to his gubernatorial campaign to more than $3 million, according to the Associated Press. The announcement came