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…
Apparently, California Republican candidates Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman unveiled a new method for attracting Latino voters: tequila shots. The Senate and gubernatorial candidates each took a shot of the Mexican spirit this weekend at the Hispanic 100 Lifetime Achievement Award Gala. Both candidates have struggled to attract 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 Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign, a California-based progressive alliance, announced today that they’ve launched a new website devoted solely to tracking the political activity and shadowy funding behind the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nonprofit group that’s famous for backing initiatives to ban same 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.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a multimillion-dollar ad attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) last night as part of its nationwide effort to spend $75 million defeating Democrats. The Chamber is not normally active in U.S. Senate races in California because Democrats like Boxer have appeared nearly invulnerable in More…
Immigrants rights groups have shifted their immigration organizing efforts to smaller bills, such as the DREAM Act for undocumented students, as comprehensive immigration reform efforts stall in Congress. Prospects for the DREAM Act are also uncertain, but students continue to push for legislation that would help some illegal More…
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