Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is pushing back against claims that her opponent, Republican Carly Fiorina, is the more pro-immigration reform candidate with a new Spanish-language ad. “Fiorina is against comprehensive immigration reform and prefers a discriminatory law like the Arizona law,” the ad states. “She is not with More…
Voters won’t only get the opportunity to elect a new Congress in exactly three weeks — in 36 states, they’ll also get to decide the fate of 155 ballot propositions on a wide-ranging series of topics, from increasing a state’s sales tax to reducing its carbon emissions. And while there’s More…
The National Organization for Marriage-backed “Vota Tus Valores” campaign, which previously launched a bus tour around the state of California urging Latinos to vote for GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, is now up on the airwaves with a Spanish-language ad campaign attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), reports More…
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been doing a lot of political work on behalf of GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in California. They helped sponsor a bus tour through the state to draw Latino voters to conservative causes in general, and Fiorina’s race against Sen. Barbara More…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied late last week a request by the state of California for disaster aid after the massive natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed hundreds of homes.
Once PG&E discovered that a natural gas pipeline had exploded in San Bruno, Calif., earlier this month, employees from the utility company had to drive in rush-hour traffic to manually turn off two separate safety valves in order to stop the flow of gas that was fueling the blaze. It More…
A new poll by the Los Angeles Times and USC poll shows Latino voters prefer Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown to Republican Meg Whitman by large measures, even after she softened her immigration messages and tried to reach out to Spanish speakers. That could be a big deal More…
Social issues might be taking a back seat to health care and the deficit in a number of national races, but not so in California’s Senate race between Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The Sunlight Foundation, which has undertaken a new project of tracking More…
Wonk Room has identified six Senate races with serious implications for climate change or, as Brad Johnson puts it, “in which a strong vote for climate runs a serious risk of being replaced by a global warming denier.”
Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, said yesterday that they would soon introduce legislation on pipeline safety. The legislation will be modeled after the proposal sent to Congress by the Department of Transportation yesterday.
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