aggregated from: FishBowlLA

CNN's recent hire of Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, has the left good and pissed off. There's even a petition to keep Erickson off the air. Some of the complaints against him:In the past, Erickson has called women's rights activists Nazis, c...

topics: democrats, elected, obama, republican, republicans

aggregated from: LA Observed

Today's weekly commentary looks in on the election season gathering steam in California, with mentions of Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Janice Hahn and Mickey Kaus. I'd hoped to work in Jamie McCourt's presidential aspiration...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, city-council, democrat, democrats

aggregated from: Orange Punch

As Congress moves toward a narrow partisan vote (however it turns out on Sunday) on what is probably the most far-reaching legislation since Medicare (which passed by solid bipartisan consensus-like majorities), the evidence is that the administratio...

topics: congress, democrats, health-care, obama, republicans

aggregated from: LA Observed

Mickey Kaus posts that Slate was quite prepared to let him keep blogging about politics as a candidate for U.S. Senate, perhaps in the form of a Diary of a Longshot. But he made the decision to step off the site for now, though I reserve the right t...

topics: campaign, candidate, democrats, political, politics

aggregated from: Greg Dewar

Now, calm down and bear with me here. I'm not entirely kidding. Here's why.There's no denying that after 7 years of mismanagement by Governor Doofinator, the 2/3rds rule and an array of inexperienced or corporatized Democrats in Sacramento, combine...

topics: campaign, candidate, democrats, government, hollywood

aggregated from: Orange Punch

Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, one of the few legislators besides Bernie Sanders who probably wouldn t protest too much if you called him a socialist, has given President Obama one more vote on the health-care bill. Kucinich had voted against it in Novembe...

topics: democrats, government, obama, senate

aggregated from: LAist

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Although gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman still has to face Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner in the June primary, all signs point towards her winning that race. After all, she leads him 5 to 1, 63 p...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, candidate, democrat, democrats

aggregated from: LAist

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Although gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman still has to face Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner in the June primary, all signs point towards her winning that race. After all, she leads him 5 to 1, 63 p...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, candidate, democrat, democrats

aggregated from: Janice Hahn, LA CD 15

For Immediate ReleaseMarch 17, 2010Contact: Michael Trujillo(818) 968-6048ASSEMBLYMAN ANTHONY PORTANTINO ENDORSES CITY COUNCILWOMAN JANICE HAHN FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNORPortantino joins the team(Los Angeles) Today State Assemblyman Anthony Portanti...

topics: airport-police, altadena, arcadia, democrats, duarte

aggregated from: LAist

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli It's not that one side is not planning to save or even increase public transit funding, it's that they are cutting it and disagree by how much, according to the LA Times. In his budget plan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegge...

topics: budget, democrats, tax, transit