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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 …

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

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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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 …

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 …

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 …