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SAN LUIS OBISPO – 12:00 am – Three of the four candidates for San Luis Obispo mayor faced off in a forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday. Paul Brown, Andrew Farrell, Donald Hedrick and Jan Marx are running in the race; the election will be held in November. We asked them all one [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 7:43 am – Some of the nation’s largest publicly traded companies said they will not channel corporate funds directly into political advertising that targets candidates, even though it is legal for them to do so. But most of the companies surveyed by the non-partisan Center for Political Accountability said they have no [...]
TEMPE – 10:38 am – Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he [...]
SACRAMENTO – 3:27 am – It was a religious revival meeting with a political bent. Summoned by conservative Christian leaders from around the country, thousands gathered on the west steps of the Capitol on Saturday for 12 hours of solemn prayer, gospel and Christian rock – and repeated calls to end abortion and gay marriage. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 1:02 pm – Politics Daily reports the former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee has pleaded guilty to embezzling $845,000 in GOP campaign funds over a six-year period. Christopher J. Ward acknowledged in court papers that between 2001 and 2007 he transferred money from campaign accounts he controlled to his own [...]
FORT COLLINS – 9:52 am -The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama. Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 12:00 am – With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars – to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of [...]
MORAGA – 8:58 am – In a bitter debate filled with personal attacks Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer repeatedly slammed Republican rival Carly Fiorina’s record as the CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard while Fiorina called the veteran Democrat an out-of-touch career politician indifferent to the suffering of ordinary Californians. The two women also staked [...]
MORAGA – 8:39 am – The first primetime, televised debate in the race between Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina takes place Wednesday, September 1 at St. Mary’s College in Moraga. The hour long, commercial-free debate begins at 7 p.m. Barbs between the two yesterday may provide a glimpse of [...]
SANTA ANA – 9:34 am – Orange County has been a national symbol of conservatism for more than 50 years: birthplace of President Richard M. Nixon and home to John Wayne, a bastion for the John Birch Society, a land of orange groves and affluence, the region of California where Republican presidential candidates could always [...]