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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Four takeaways from first debate in 2026 California governor’s race

LA Times

A governor candidate forum is held by the National Union of Healthcare Workers on Sunday in San Francisco. Atkins said she wasn’t sure, saying: “It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback now.. We know more today than we did then.” Single-payer healthcare The moderators pressed the candidates on their positions on healthcare policy, of particular interest to the audience of a …

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4 months ago

Bass cites Harris’ ‘passion’ and ‘fearlessness’ in helping children

LA Times

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was met with chants of “Karen! Karen!” after she described Vice President Kamala Harris as a role model who would fight to protect children at Monday’s opening night of the Democratic National Convention. “Our bond was forged years ago, by a shared commitment to children,” said Bass, who has known Harris, 59, for nearly two …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: 85 years after Nazis stole a Jewish family’s Pissarro painting, California may help return it

LA Times

Beverly Cassirer and her husband, Claude Cassirer, the grandson of Lilly Cassirer, at their home in San Diego. In the twists and turns that an exquisite Impressionist painting of a rainy Paris streetscape has taken from Lilly Cassirer’s Berlin home in 1939 to the wall of a Spanish museum where it hangs today, no one has ever questioned that the …

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7 months ago

Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis launches Democratic PAC to mobilize voters on abortion rights

LA Times

Eleni Kounalakis launched a PAC this week to mobilize Democratic voters and help retake control of the House. Eleni Kounalakis publicly launched a new independent political committee to mobilize “pro-choice” California voters and help to defeat Donald Trump and take back Democratic control of the House of Representatives. The PAC will focus on defeating Reps. John Duarte, Mike Garcia, David …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The first female vice president is from California. Could she help elect the state’s first woman governor?

LA Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with California legislators at the Stanford Mansion on Thursday in Sacramento. But Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Sacramento on Thursday highlighted the possibility after the nation’s first female vice president spent time with two women aiming to become California’s first female governor. Ties between the vice president and the lieutenant governor go back about …

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11 months ago

State Senate leader Toni Atkins joins 2026 race for California governor

LA Times

State Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins launched a run for governor with an event at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Jan. 19. “And the reason she gets us, is she’s one of us.” Atkins has nearly $2.3 million in a campaign committee for lieutenant governor that she opened several years ago, according to filing records with …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I must be better than Trump’: Why California’s elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot

LA Times

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is resisting pressure from within the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from the March statewide primary ballot due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — arguing that, unlike the former Republican president, she feels obligated to follow the law. “And I must be better than Trump.” Weber …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot

LA Times

Then-President Trump walks off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in 2020. Former President Trump will be on California’s March 5 presidential primary ballot, despite calls from some officials to disqualify him because of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier Thursday, Maine’s secretary of state removed Trump from the state’s primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, which …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Newsom loves Trump? Not at all. But he made the right call on ballot access

LA Times

Gavin Newsom made the right call in rejecting efforts by Lt. Gov. There’s a movement across the land to strike Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot as punishment — or justice, if you prefer — for summoning and unleashing the deadly mob that overran the Capitol and desecrated our democracy on Jan. 6, 2021. The effort was moldering in …

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1 year, 2 months ago

State schools Supt. Tony Thurmond announces 2026 bid for California governor

LA Times

of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond speaks at an event in Chula Vista, Calif., in 2021. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond is officially running for governor in 2026, becoming the latest Democrat to launch a campaign in a race that could draw a large field of contenders as Gov. The ad does not target potential competitors but aims to position Thurmond …

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1 year, 3 months ago

CSU stands by a 6% tuition hike plan, but backs down from a key provision ahead of vote

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California State University students with Students for Quality Education, a grassroots organization that advocates for progressive policies, have attended Board of Trustees meetings to protest the proposed 6% tuition increase. The California State University system is sticking with its controversial 6% tuition increase proposal, but would limit it to five consecutive years, backing down from an earlier plan that called …

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1 year, 6 months ago

California Politics: Feinstein’s popularity plummets

LA Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, surrounded by staff, departs a Senate Judiciary Business Meeting at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Thursday, May 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. A crowded top two Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s health has been a subject of ample intrigue in recent weeks, and our latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll has …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Hillary Clinton backs Eleni Kounalakis for California governor

LA Times

Eleni Kounalakis, left, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, attend an abortion rights event in San Francisco on Oct. 13. After her friend and former boss lost the presidential race in 2016, Democrat Eleni Kounalakis remembers Hillary Clinton urging women to run for public office. “Those are important endorsements.” Although Kounalakis is unknown to many voters, Nalder said, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis announces early bid in 2026 California governor’s race

LA Times

Eleni Kounalakis, shown in 2018, announced Monday that she is running for governor in 2026. “As the proud daughter of an immigrant who came to California with nothing, my family owes everything to this state — I’m running for governor to ensure all Californians have the opportunities we’ve had,” Kounalakis said in a statement. Her family is wealthy and has …

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2 years, 2 months ago

The race for California lieutenant governor, a potential political launching pad

LA Times

Democratic incumbent Eleni Kounalakis and Republican Lancaster official Angela Underwood Jacobs are competing for the position of California lieutenant governor — an under-the-radar office that has been a steppingstone for a few governors past. As lieutenant governor, Kounalakis has If reelected in November, Kounalakis said she would continue to sponsor legislation and work behind the scenes to get policies she …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Newsom recall election set for Sept. 14

LA Times

California voters will decide on Sept. 14 whether to replace Gov. The tight election timetable gives prospective candidates just over two weeks to decide whether to jump into an expected frenzied race to replace Newsom, though a cadre of notable Republicans launched unofficial campaigns months ago with promises of loosening the Democrats’ ironclad grip on California’s state government. “Now that …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Essential Politics: Picking a date for the Newsom recall

LA Times

This is the June 28, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. I reached out to two people who’ve thought a lot about the idea of systemic reform in California, the coauthors of the 2010 book “California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It.” Joe Mathews is a former Times political writer and biographer …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Elections officials alarmed by Democrats’ plans to change Newsom recall rules

LA Times

Elections officials across California said last week that the proposed rules written by Democratic lawmakers for the recall election of Gov. It also would require the recall to be conducted as a “regular election,” a change that is likely to prohibit some counties from implementing voting rules and procedures used in last November’s presidential election. “We’re looking at it as …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How it happened: Inside Biden’s search for a running mate

Live Mint

Gretchen Whitmer wanted out. As protests over the death of Floyd and other Black Americans filled the streets across the country, an array of Democrats urged Biden to put a Black woman on the ticket — a nod to this moment in the nation’s history, to the critical role Black voters played in Biden’s ascent to the Democratic nomination, and …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How it happened: Inside Biden's search for a running mate

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Gretchen Whitmer wanted out. As protests over the death of Floyd and other Black Americans filled the streets across the country, an array of Democrats urged Biden to put a Black woman on the ticket — a nod to this moment in the nation’s history, to the critical role Black voters played in Biden’s ascent to the Democratic nomination, and …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How Biden chose Harris: Inside his search for a running mate

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Gretchen Whitmer wanted out. As protests over the death of Floyd and other Black Americans filled the streets across the country, an array of Democrats urged Biden to put a Black woman on the ticket — a nod to this moment in the nation’s history, to the critical role Black voters played in Biden’s ascent to the Democratic …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Joe Biden's search for a running mate enters final stretch

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As Joe Biden nears the announcement of his vice presidential choice, the top contenders and their advocates are making final appeals. Biden said in May that he hoped to name his pick around Aug. 1 and told reporters this week that he would "have a choice in the first week of August." Biden allies say his wife, Jill, and sister, …

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Four takeaways from first debate in 2026 California governor’s race

Bass cites Harris’ ‘passion’ and ‘fearlessness’ in helping children

Editorial: 85 years after Nazis stole a Jewish family’s Pissarro painting, California may help return it

Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis launches Democratic PAC to mobilize voters on abortion rights

The first female vice president is from California. Could she help elect the state’s first woman governor?

State Senate leader Toni Atkins joins 2026 race for California governor

‘I must be better than Trump’: Why California’s elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot

Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot

Column: Newsom loves Trump? Not at all. But he made the right call on ballot access

State schools Supt. Tony Thurmond announces 2026 bid for California governor

CSU stands by a 6% tuition hike plan, but backs down from a key provision ahead of vote

California Politics: Feinstein’s popularity plummets

Hillary Clinton backs Eleni Kounalakis for California governor

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis announces early bid in 2026 California governor’s race

The race for California lieutenant governor, a potential political launching pad

Newsom recall election set for Sept. 14

Essential Politics: Picking a date for the Newsom recall

Elections officials alarmed by Democrats’ plans to change Newsom recall rules

How it happened: Inside Biden’s search for a running mate

How it happened: Inside Biden's search for a running mate

How Biden chose Harris: Inside his search for a running mate

Joe Biden's search for a running mate enters final stretch