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27 May 2019, 9:41 am by Ilya Somin
A truly progressive party should have higher aspirations. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 6:25 pm by Glenn Reynolds
David Wu to resign intensified Saturday as leaders in his own party began confronting the embattled Oregon lawmaker over allegations that he had an unwanted sexual encounter last Thanksgiving with a young California woman.” Meanwhile, Ann Althouse is skeptical of the charge. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 6:13 am
Biden Jr., wielding a political network cultivated over decades, has been reasserting himself as a party leader, while Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California have emerged as fresher-faced messengers for the midterms. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
In California, where gerrymandering and other voting ploys gave the Tea Party-dominated Republicans power, they blocked Democrats from governing until voters had enough and removed the GOP from all statewide power. [read post]
20 May 2010, 9:07 am by Kent Scheidegger
Bob Egelko reports in the SF Chron:The California Democratic Party is calling for abolition of the death penalty, defying conventional political wisdom and raising an issue that its candidate for governor might prefer to avoid.Democratic leaders have previously passed resolutions opposing capital punishment, but the party says its records indicate it has never enshrined the position in its platform - the formal statement of its principles - until this year. [read post]
17 Nov 2013, 5:28 am by Jon Gelman
It became the fifth state to hike its minimum wage this year, joining California, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.The flurry of state efforts comes as President Obama and some congressional Democrats push an increase of the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage, unchanged since 2009. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 12:22 pm
Diane Feinstein, a senior Senator from California, went against her party and its reliance upon the flimsiest reasons for not welcoming Burris into the Senate -- that Jesse White, the Illinois Secretary of State unlawfully refuses to sign the commission. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 10:22 am by Tom Smith
And there’s l’affaire French Laundry, in which, last fall, the Governor ignored his own pandemic guidelines and went to a birthday party at a super-fancy Napa restaurant. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 2:59 pm by Tom Smith
Yet, while public attention is focused on the GOP’s deathbed vigil, another equally consequential trend is unfolding largely under the radar: California Democrats, far from enjoying a frictionless ascendancy, are finding themselves sharply divided along racial lines. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 8:15 am by Steve Hall
Ask leaders of his own Democratic Party, who are livid that he trashed their budget last week and vetoed it a day after they passed it. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 11:21 pm
Late Saturday, the state Democratic Party announced the final votes had been tabulated. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 3:18 pm
I think sustained opposition from the civil rights community in California will make it very difficult to pass redistricting reform in the wake of the state Democratic Party's opposition. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 6:33 pm by Immigration Prof
Kamala Harris, the VP candidate for the Democratic party, is the child of immigrants. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 2:06 pm
Last night, Democrats in the California Assembly passed billions of new taxes on a party-line vote. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 8:09 am
This report suggests that the left wing of the already left wing California Democratic Party isn't pleased with Jerry Brown.Brown has been running a very disciplined campaign to date, and it is easy to suspect... [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 10:47 am by Jon Levitan
In fact, de Leon was recently endorsed by the California Democratic Party in a rebuke to Feinstein. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 10:45 am by Dave Maass
Prop. 42 was endorsed by good-government groups such as the League of Women Voters, California Common Cause, Californians Aware, as well as unlikely allies such as the California Republican and Democratic Parties, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and many of the state's largest labor unions. [read post]