Politics, Government and Business in Southern California's Inland Empire
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 – 09:30 a.m.
It sure looks as if San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Member and San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors candidate James Ramos’ campaign is pulling out all the stops in the final days running up to the June 5 primary.
Ramos is seeking to unseat Supervisor Neil Derry in the three-way contest.
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
Published: 22 May 2012 06:56 PM
A high-stakes showdown with national implications is brewing in the San Bernardino Valley, where six candidates are vying to represent California’s newly drawn 31st Congressional District.
No House race in the country on the regular 2012 election schedule has attracted more outside spending than the 31st, which stretches from Redlands to Rancho Cucamonga and includes San Bernardino, Loma Linda, Grand Terrace, Colton and parts of Fontana and Rialto. Special interests have pumped more than $900,000 into the race.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
May 21, 2012
Four months after a California assemblyman was cited and released for carrying a gun into an airport, the Assembly passed legislation today that would require offenders to be taken into custody in such situations.
Democratic Assemblywoman Norma Torres said her Assembly Bill 2182 did not stem from the January incident involving Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, which occurred at an Ontario airport on the first day of this year’s legislative session.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 20 May 2012 05:38 PM
In San Bernardino County’s safely Democratic 47th Assembly District, Joe Baca Jr. wants to return to the job he held for a single term several years ago.
And in the county’s safely Republican 33rd Assembly District, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is trying to avoid becoming a one-term lawmaker himself.
Election 2012
Neil.Nisperos and Benjamin Demers, Staff Writers
Created: 05/20/2012 07:05:00 AM PDT
Donna Lowe will have her work cut out for her if she wants to represent the newly redrawn 41st Assembly District.
The Claremont resident and Tea Party supporter will be going up against three well-connected and better-funded Democrats – Pasadena Councilman Chris Holden, South Pasadena Mayor Michael Cacciotti and businesswoman Victoria Rusnak.
Wyatt Buchanan
Monday, May 21, 2012
Sacramento– Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal attempts to close a formidable $15.7 billion deficit, but the real debate at the Capitol in the next few weeks probably will be over how to cut just a fraction of the big amount.
That’s because about $2 billion in the governor’s budget represents permanent reductions in spending on state welfare, child care and other programs that Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly have pledged to protect.
BY JIM MILLER AND BEN GOAD
STAFF WRITERS
jmiller@pe.com | bgoad@pe.com
Published: 19 May 2012 06:16 PM
Fueled by new political boundaries and court rulings, campaign committees representing special interests have revved up spending this election cycle, and much of that largesse is focused on Inland Southern California candidates.
Independent expenditures committees, known nationally as super-PACs, have been a fixture of legislative and statewide elections in California since 2001. The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision brought the same type of unlimited spending to federal contests, from president to Congress.
Election 2012
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/19/2012 06:01:36 PM PDT
Things don’t appear to be slowing down one bit in the contentious race for San Bernardino County’s 3rd District supervisorial seat in the June 5 primary election.
Outspoken incumbent Neil Derry has sharply criticized one of his two opponents, former San Manuel tribal Chairman James Ramos, saying Ramos doesn’t have the political background to serve a constituency of roughly 407,000 people.
Election 2012
Neil Nisperos and Benjamin Demers, Staff Writers
Created: 05/19/2012 07:08:49 AM PDT
Democrats Cheryl Brown and Joe Baca, Jr. could easily be considered the favorites to make it though June’s primary for Assembly District 47 and face each other in November.
The have name recognition in local communities.
By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, May. 20, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Sunday, May. 20, 2012 – 8:30 am
Legislative Democrats aren’t organizing a bake sale just yet, but they say they will desperately search for cash in the coming weeks to avoid the most severe cuts proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Saying the state’s budget deficit has risen from $9.2 billion to $15.7 billion, the Democratic governor has proposed more cuts to programs that serve the state’s poorest residents.
Friday, May 18, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.
The sauce pan is simmering in the race for San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor.
The three-way race consisting of Supervisor Neil Derry, Former Twenty-Nine Palms City Councilman Jim Bagley and Former San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman James Ramos is heating up heading into the home stretch to the June 5th primary.
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
Published: 15 May 2012 06:03 PM
Neither U.S. Rep. Joe Baca nor state Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod has had trouble getting elected in San Bernardino County, where the Democratic stalwarts have held public office for a combined 50 years.
Now Baca, D-Rialto, and Negrete McLeod, D-Chino, are set to do battle in territory both have represented before: California’s newly drawn 35th Congressional District.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Watching the sad spectacle of Governor Gandalf yet again expounding on California’s budget horrors Monday was like going to see one of those dreadful, anemic sequels to a long-ago tapped-out blockbuster franchise.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 – 04:50 p.m.
Here is some news reverberating across the transom this week.
Brown wants portion of Harris foreclosure settlement
You gotta love it.
California Governor Jerry Brown, in an effort to cobble together more money to blow, wants to steal hundreds of millions of dollars meant to help distressed homeowners. The dough, a part of a national foreclosure settlement obtained by Attorney General Kamala Harris, is meant for distressed homeowners.
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/13/2012 01:52:32 PM PDT
A flap over a gun has provided fodder for Assemblyman Tim Donnelly’s opponents in a battle for the hearts and minds of voters in the 33rd Assembly District.
For his opponents in the June 5 primary election, Donnelly’s arrest for carrying a loaded gun into an airport was a vital lapse in judgment.
By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2012
In the first broad test of California’s new “top-two” election system, many candidates in heated races for Congress and the state Legislature have been campaigning earlier, spending more money and downplaying their party affiliation as they try to widen their appeal.
Gone are the party primaries, except in the presidential race. Now all state candidates appear on a single ballot. Only those who come in first or second on June 5 will move on to the November general election, in which no write-in or other added candidates will be allowed.
By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 10:48 am
In a gloomy preview of his May budget release, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday that California’s deficit has mushroomed to $16 billion, nearly $7 billion higher than he last estimated.
The Democratic governor blamed a slow economic recovery, as well as federal judges and administrators who blocked cuts to health care for the poor. Brown had previously pegged the deficit at $9.2 billion.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 11 May 2012 10:04 PM
Michael Fine, Riverside Unified School District’s deputy superintendent for business services, can tick off the hard numbers of what four years of recession-era state budgets have meant for his 42,000-student district.
The district has lost $110 million and confronts an annual $20 million gap between revenue and spending. The school year, which spanned 180 instructional days before the recession, is now 176 days.
Friday, May 11, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.
It was a bright, sunny and hot Thursday afternoon in the city of Highland, California.
When sightings of a campaign sign crew emerged.
By Amanda Becker
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2012, 6:23 p.m.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s re-election campaign can’t approach donors who already contributed the maximum amount permitted by law in order to replace roughly $4.5 million that was siphoned from its accounts in an embezzlement scheme — at least for the time being.
Thursday, May 10, 2012 – 04:30 p.m.
Mayor Pete Aguilar (D-Redlands) has pick up some desperately needed campaign help in his quest to represent the 31st Congressional District.
Aguilar just received over $48,000 in independent expenditure help from the Restoring Our Community PAC.
The expenditure was reported to the Federal Election Commission today.
By Dan Walters
Published: Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
California is struggling to emerge from the worst recession since the Great Depression and has more than 2 million unemployed workers, plus countless others who have given up seeking work out of frustration and/or have fled to other states.
Clearly the state needs many billions of dollars in job-creating investment. But its attractiveness to that investment is, to say the least, problematic, given its relatively high tax burden, its dense regulatory structure, its deficiencies in education, transportation and water supply, and its tangled government finances.
Monday, May 7, 2012 – 10:30 a.m.
Former Massachusetts Governor and apparent Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney is displaying strength in three newly-released polls this morning.
Monday, May 7, 2012 – 10:20 a.m.
An interesting campaign depiction courtesy of the Internet.
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
Published: 06 May 2012 07:26 PM
When it comes to Internet prominence, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands out as a potential running mate for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
So says a survey by PeekYou, a company specializing in online people searches. PeekYou recently ranked possible GOP vice presidential candidates based on how often they’re mentioned on the Web, the amount of Web content they generate, their participation in social networks and other factors.
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
Published: 06 May 2012 08:34 PM
California’s primary next month will be dress rehearsal time in the 36th Congressional District, where U.S. Rep. Mary Bono Mack and challenger Raul Ruiz will square off in the first of two contests for the Riverside County seat.
Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, and Ruiz, an emergency room doctor and Democrat from the Coachella Valley, are the only two candidates in the race, so they are both assured to move on to November’s general election. Still, Republicans and Democrats will be watching closely to see whether Ruiz shows signs that he is a serious threat to Bono Mack’s bid for an ninth term.
May 06, 2012 6:54 PM
From Staff Reports
As the June 5 primary approaches, the Daily Press asked the 13 candidates running for the newly drawn 8th Congressional District representing the High Desert to weigh in on this question, in 50 words or less: What are your ideas for reducing the federal debt? Where specifically would you cut?
Sunday, May 6, 2012 – 10:30 a.m
Ramos struggles through final candidate forum.
Former San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman and San Bernardino County Board of Supe’s candidate James Ramos showed up for the final candidate forum held at Copper Mountain College on Friday night.
Nothing changed.
Saturday, May 5, 2012 – 06:00 p.m.
You gotta love San Bernardino County politics.
The letter to the editor by San Bernardino attorneys Philip Kassel and Sanford Kassel, printed below, says it all.
Saturday, May 5, 2012 – 10:15 a.m.
State Senator Bob Dutton’s support of Former San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman James Ramos was front and center Thursday night.
By Robin Harding in Washington and Michael Mackenzie in New York
Last updated: May 4, 2012 8:32 pm
Weaker-than-expected US jobs growth hit financial markets and cast a shadow over President Barack Obama’s plans for a formal launch of his re-election campaign this weekend.
US crude oil prices fell more than $4 a barrel and were trading below $100 for the first time since early February after data showed the economy added only 115,000 jobs in April compared with expectations of 162,000. The S&P 500 dropped as much as 1.5 per cent while yields on US and German 10-year government bonds fell.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 04 May 2012 06:48 PM
Rep. Joe Baca, D-Rialto, is backing San Bernardino County Supervisor Josie Gonzales’ opponent in the June 5 election in a sign of increased tensions between the one-time allies.
In a campaign news release Friday, May 4, Baca took aim at Gonzales, accusing her of failing to “live up to Democratic principles by supporting candidates that were part of the county corruption scandal.” He also described her as having “lost touch with the everyday needs of families.”
By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2012
SACRAMENTO — It isn’t enough these days for certain state lawmakers to defend their voting records when seeking reelection. Some also have to explain arrest records.
Within the last 20 months, five state legislators and one former state senator with active campaigns have been arrested on suspicion of crimes including drunk driving, perjury, voter fraud, shoplifting and trying to carry a loaded gun through airport security.
By Kevin Yamamura and David Siders
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, May. 4, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
After years of being labeled the “Party of No” by majority Democrats, California Republican leaders stood under rainy skies Thursday outside the Capitol to dub themselves the “Party of Yes.”
The newly christened party kicked off its campaign by asking for a “no” vote on Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
May 2, 2012 | 2:52 pm
Faced with worsening budget problems, chances are growing that the Legislature won’t vote on comprehensive pension reform until the end of the session in August, some officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.
The flap over the Form 700 – Statements of Economic Disclosure Forms filed by San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors candidate and former San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman James Ramos in his various capacities as San Bernardino Community College District Trustee, State Board of Education Member and San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors candidate, raise really one main question.
Ramos currently functions in all three capacities and recently surrendered his Tribal Chairman title.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 – 08:55 a.m.
Another Tea Party forum snubbed?
That’s the story coming out of Big Bear this morning.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/30/2012 05:26:19 PM PDT
View: Complaint
A complaint has been filed against San Bernardino County supervisor candidate and former San Manuel tribal chairman James Ramos, alleging that he failed to report his income and real property interests on state campaign disclosure forms.
The complaint, dated April 3 and received by the state Fair Political Practices Commission on April 12, alleges that Ramos failed to report on his form 700 Statement of Economic Interest a house he owns in Big Bear Lake and shares of stock in Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and General Electric Co.
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
Published: 29 April 2012 08:19 PM
As the lone Democrat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors for several years, Josie Gonzales has often endorsed and contributed funds to her Republican colleagues, a stance that has irritated some of her party cohorts.
On Thursday, the ill will was out in the open: the San Bernardino County Democratic Central Committee voted on a resolution calling on Democrats to actively not support Gonzales in her bid for re-election as Fifth District supervisor in the June 5 election. Critics cited her backing of former Supervisors Bill Postmus and Paul Biane — both later arrested as part of the county corruption scandal — and said she had failed to help other Democrats.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 29, 2012
Four months into his second year in office – still with major parts of his agenda unfulfilled – Gov. Jerry Brown this morning tried a little expectation control.
Asked by Bob Schieffer on the CBS public affairs show “Face the Nation” for any advice he might have for politicians, Brown said, “I’ve learned you don’t get things done overnight. It does take time.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
One hears a lot of noise these days in and out of the Capitol about “the 1 percent” – those at the top of the income pecking order – and the moral imperative to levy higher taxes on them to support public services.
The narrative from left-wing activists and their political allies is that those at the top have rapaciously gathered more wealth while the poor get poorer and those in the middle class struggle to keep afloat.
BY JIM MILLER AND BEN GOAD
STAFF WRITERS
jmiller@pe.com | bgoad@pe.com
Published: 27 April 2012 03:01 PM
Candidates for Inland Southern California congressional and legislative contests on the June ballot have raised more than $9.4 million, with four-fifths of the money originating from outside the districts they seek to represent.
Every state is represented in the Inland money rush. The amount eclipses what had been raised at this point two years ago and will continue to swell throughout the election cycle. Independent expenditure groups, which are not covered by candidate contribution limits, will inject millions more into the region’s races in the weeks and months ahead.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/27/2012 04:24:06 PM PDT
The San Bernardino County Democratic Central Committee won’t be endorsing the re-election bid of the lone Democrat on the Board of Supervisors, Chairwoman Josie Gonzales, citing her support for Republican candidates over the years, including former county Assessor Bill Postmus.
Wyatt Buchanan
Saturday, April 28, 2012
One of the biggest mysteries at the Capitol these days is whether lawmakers are really going to make any substantive changes in the pension system for public employees.
This week didn’t do much to answer that, even though there were hearings on bills that were taken word-for-word from proposals Gov. Jerry Brown had sent to the Legislature. The apparent problem? Republicans introduced the bills.
Friday, April 27, 2012 – 11:00 a.m.
It looks like Supervisor Neil Derry is hard at work cultivating votes.
It’s no secret that San Bernardino County’s Third Supervisorial District is fertile ground filled with conservative republicans, decline-to-state and independent voters.
The recent realignment of district boundaries has made the territory even more conservative.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 – 09:00 a.m.
The former leader of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has dropped his clean campaign pledge in his quest to unseat San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor Neil Derry.
Candidate James Ramos is telling mountain constituents he’s ended his desire to run a clean issue-oriented campaign and instead has went negative against Derry.
By George Skelton
Capitol Journal
April 26, 2012
Sometimes an old movie line says it best. Such a line came to mind when I read the Assembly speaker’s assertion that political money doesn’t influence legislative voting.
“I know people love to try to create that impression,” Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) was quoted as saying in a Times article Sunday about AT&T’s wide-ranging lobbying operation.
The State Worker
Chronicling civil-service life for California state workers
April 24, 2012
A key legislative committee isn’t going to act on a package of public pension reforms proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown and adopted by Republicans in their own bills.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
With the state budget mired in deficits, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators, especially his fellow Democrats, are searching under every fiscal rock for money to spend.
Donnelly, Derry lag behind
April 19, 2012 5:18 PM
By SAM PEARSON, Staff Writer
Despite the advantages of incumbency, challengers are raking in more funds than the candidates they oppose in two High Desert races.
Both Big Bear Lake Mayor Bill Jahn, who is seeking to defeat Assemblyman Tim Donnelly in the new 33rd Assembly District, and James Ramos, who stepped down from his post as Chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Monday and continues to campaign against incumbent 3rd District Supervisor Neil Derry, have significant cash advantages over their rivals.
Friday, April 20, 2012 – 02:15 p.m.
San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor Neil Derry picked up another large endorsement Thursday night.
The conservative California Republican Assembly (CRA) has officially voted to endorse the first-term supervisor.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 19, 2012
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg pledged today to put forward for the 2014 election a package of major changes to California’s initiative process, including a provision to make it easier for legislators to place tax measures on the ballot.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 – 10:15 a.m.
The former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has some bumps in the road ahead in his quest for a seat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, according to sources.
James Ramos, who is challenging Third District Supervisor Neil Derry, is about to feel the baggage from underneath the train, all courtesy of his voting record on the San Bernardino Community College District Board of Trustees, where he currently serves as an elected member.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.
Should State Senator Bob Dutton abandon his congressional campaign and support Congressman Gary Miller?
The obvious answer is yes.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 18, 2012
Opposed by powerful business and finance groups, key mortgage reform bills sponsored by Attorney General Kamala Harris are headed for a joint legislative conference committee.
The six-member conference committee will consist of two Democrats and one Republican from each house, according to multiple legislative aides who had been notified of the plan.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 – 09:50 a.m.
The free-for-all race to represent the 8th Congressional District is shaping up to be just that.
It’s anyone’s seat with some of the eleven candidates lending themselves size-able amounts of money.
Here’s the fully updated totals for the top fundraisers, out of a field of eleven, for the 2011-2012 cycle.
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
Published: 16 April 2012 06:38 PM
WASHINGTON — Candidates in Inland Southern California’s hotly contested congressional races raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in the first three months of the 2012 election year, new campaign finance reports show.
Leading all candidates in more than half a dozen Riverside and San Bernardino county races was political novice Raul Ruiz, an emergency room doctor from the Coachella Valley who aims to unseat veteran Rep. Mary Bono Mack.
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 04/16/2012 10:17:01 AM PDT
In the competitive primary race for the 31st Congressional District seat, Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea, has amassed nearly $1.2 million in campaign funds – far exceeding the treasury totals of his opponents.
Miller’s Republican opponent, state Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, received $109,790 in the past quarter, and has about $39,000 left in cash on hand.
Monday, April 16, 2012 – 09:30 a.m.
The showdown to make the top two candidates in the CD-31 is shaping up to be a real contest.
Will it be Congressman Gary Miller and State Senator Bob Dutton?
Veteran Democrats figure to finish 1-2
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 04/15/2012 02:35:42 PM PDT
Anthony Vieyra dreams of a seat in Congress.
Vieyra said politicians too often represent the interests of corporations and not the will of the people.
The Pomona resident and former General Dynamics employee aims to make a difference with his run for the 35th Congressional District seat, which represents an area from Pomona east to Rialto.
Saturday, April 14, 2012 – 07:30 p.m.
Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) has apparently continued unabated in his fundraising even though State Senator Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) entered the race to represent the 31st Congressional District.
Latest campaign finance reports for the 2011-12 election cycle filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) show the following as of March 31, 2012:
Saturday, April 14, 2012 – 04:30 p.m.
Congressman Joe Baca (D-Rialto) has a significant fundraising advantage over State Senator Gloria Negrete-McLeod (D-Chino) in the 35th Congressional District.
Latest campaign finance reports for the 2011-12 election cycle filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) show the following as of March 31, 2012.
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012 – 12:10 am
Gov. Jerry Brown urged the Legislature on Friday to “man up” and make spending cuts, acknowledging the state budget deficit is likely larger than he previously thought.
The Democratic governor, in an interview on Bay Area talk radio station KGO (810 AM), said the deficit is “probably bigger now” than the $9.2 billion he estimated earlier this year.
By PE Politics
April 12, 2012 9:54 AM
Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar, one of six candidates vying to represent California’s 31st Congressional District, raked in more than $200,000 over the last three months, his campaign announced this morning.
By Dan Walters
Published: Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
The Capitol is preoccupied with Gov. Jerry Brown’s efforts to persuade voters to raise taxes and the complicating effects of a rival tax measure sponsored by civil rights attorney Molly Munger.
With deadlines looming, will Brown and his union allies collect enough signatures to place their measure on the June ballot? Will Munger cave in to pressure from Brown, et al., to back off? If both are on the ballot, would it doom both?
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
April 9, 2012 | 6:35 pm
For Tim Donnelly, the revolution is no tea party.
The outspoken Republican from San Bernardino was elected to the Legislature two years ago on a pledge to rein in regulations and shrink the bureaucracy that he said was strangling the state’s economy. So far, his signature initiatives — importing Arizona’s controversial immigration law to California and rolling back state financial aid to undocumented students — have failed.
By Don Lee and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
April 7, 2012
WASHINGTON — Job growth slowed sharply last month, raising fresh questions about the strength of the recovery and complicating, for the moment, President Obama’s ability to run for reelection on the wave of a resurgent economy.
Employers nationwide added a modest 120,000 new positions in March, only about half the job gains in each of the previous three months, the Labor Department reported Friday. Some of the falloff, analysts said, reflected the fact that payrolls had been inflated in the winter because of unusually mild weather.
Debra J. Saunders
Friday, April 6, 2012
Why is the federal government under President Obama arguably tougher on medical marijuana operations than it was under George W. Bush? That’s the question that antidrug-war groups have been asking themselves for months.
Only ‘most viable’ congressional candidates got initial invites
April 04, 2012 10:04 PM
Natasha Lindstrom
Half the candidates vying for the 8th Congressional District in the June election were left off the invite list to Thursday’s debate in Victorville for seniors — even though the event was touted as an informational candidate forum open to the public.
April 4th, 2012, 2:18 pm
Posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
Despite the high degree of partisanship in Washington and Sacramento, unaffiliated voters in California continue to increase their market share. Decline-to-state voters now account for 21 percent of the state’s electorate, up from the 19 percent of 2008 and double the 10.5 percent of 1995.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 – 09:30 a.m.
All three candidates seeking to represent San Bernardino County’s Third Supervisorial District appeared at a forum sponsored by the Big Bear Democratic Club Monday night.
Yes, all three!
BY JIM MILLER AND BEN GOAD
STAFF REPORTERS
jmiller@pe.com; bgoad@pe.com
Published: 03 April 2012 10:06 PM
California’s top-two primary will make its statewide debut June 5, more than three years after it emerged from state budget deal-making.
No one is sure how the new system will play out, as candidates and interest groups try to feel their way around the state’s reshaped political landscape.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 – 09:30 a.m.
It’s usually a good idea not to pound on one candidate too often.
It can give the wrong perception.
Debra J. Saunders
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
“Who killed the debt deal?” read the New York Times Magazine as it hyped its Sunday cover story as a “Washington whodunit.”
Author Matt Bai explained that “some of Washington’s most connected Democrats and Republicans” didn’t know whose story to believe or what had been on the table after last summer’s “grand bargain” deficit-reduction negotiations between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner crumbled.
Monday, April 2, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.
When San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors candidate James Ramos’ own polling revealed his Tribal ties hurt is electability, he immediately omitted any reference in his literature.
Only the term Native American would appear occasionally.
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