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A report on the root causes of problems at the San Onofre nuclear plant shows that officials considered making design changes to the plant’s new steam generators before they were installed but rejected some fixes in part because they would require further regulatory approvals.
RICHARD K. De ATLEY, STAFF WRITER
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Published: 25 April 2012 05:56 PM
President Obama has nominated Jesus Bernal, who heads the Inland-area public defender’s office in Riverside, as a judge for the vacant federal court bench in Riverside, Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office announced Wednesday.
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
Published: 22 January 2012 07:52 PM
Workin’ It
When Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. visited Riverside last week, a lot of the discussion was about the jobs created by goods movement and related construction projects such as the Magnolia Avenue underpass.
Add Laurence Parker to the job-creation list. Parker, waving an American flag and dressed as the Statue of Liberty, crashed Boxer’s presser to get a little attention for Liberty Tax Service, which has an office on Magnolia just north of the underpass. Usually he just stands in front of the office to draw the attention of drivers, much like a sign-spinner.
BY DUG BEGLEY
STAFF WRITER
dbegley@pe.com
Published: 18 January 2012 06:35 PM
Riverside’s Magnolia Avenue underpass served as the backdrop Wednesday for a push by Sen. Barbara Boxer to encourage more federal investment in local projects that create jobs, ease traffic and get trucks and trains to their destinations quicker.
The region’s politicians in Washington are split along partisan lines about how to extend tax cuts and jobless aid
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
Published: 13 December 2011 08:28 PM
WASHINGTON — As the debate over extending a soon-to-expire payroll tax cut and benefits for the unemployed nears a crescendo in Congress, few corners of the nation have more at stake than does economically battered Inland Southern California.
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Published: 03 December 2011 05:25 PM
Here is how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Dec. 2.
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RULES FOR UNION ELECTIONS: Voting 235 for and 188 against, the House on Nov. 30 passed a Republican bill (HR 3094) to block a proposed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule to quicken the pace of union elections. Now before the Senate, the bill targets a labor-relations rule that could take effect by year’s end. Under the rule, elections on whether to form into a collective-bargaining unit could be held as soon as 10 days after the NLRB certifies the election petition. The bill would require a wait of at least 35 days to give employers more time to attempt to persuade workers to reject unionization, and it would give employers more say in determining which workers are eligible for the bargaining unit.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Published: 27 November 2011 07:24 PM
Once again, Inland Rep. Darrell Issa has been placed atop a list of the richest members of Congress.
Issa, R-Vista, whose invention of the Viper car alarm helped him amass a fortune, is worth at least $195 million and possibly more than $700 million, according to a report released this month by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Administrators Note: Gilliard is consultant to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman James Ramos, a registered democrat.
The Swarm
Mix it up with The Bee’s editorial board.
October 7, 2011
At this time last year, an obscure shell of a corporation called Taxpayer Network aired an attack on Sen. Barbara Boxer.
If the ad’s intended effect was to defeat Boxer, it failed. Boxer won reelection. But the ad did help line a few pockets, a document released a year later shows.
TRANSPORTATION: Congress eyes bill vital to Inland area
10:00 PM PDT on Thursday, September 1, 2011
BY BEN GOAD and DUG BEGLEY
STAFF WRITERS
bgoad@pe.com | dbegley@PE.com
California would lose more than $4.6 billion and as many as 164,000 jobs if Congress fails this month to extend federal transportation legislation that funds road, bridge and rail projects around the country, Sen. Barbara Boxer said Thursday.
Feinstein
By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 – 8:01 am
WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains more popular among California voters than her colleague Barbara Boxer, a new Field Poll shows.
But Feinstein can’t rest easy as she prepares for another re-election bid next year. For the first time since her initial 1992 election, less than half of the Californians surveyed consider themselves leaning toward Feinstein.
Rep. Mary Bono Mack and Sen. Barbara Boxer
10:36 AM, Mar. 4, 2011 |
Written by PAUL C. BARTON
Desert Sun Washington Bureau
As the crow flies, the hometowns of Rep. Mary Bono Mack and Sen. Barbara Boxer — Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage — lie within 10 miles of each other.
But when it comes to challenges facing the federal government, Bono Mack and Boxer might as well hail from different planets.
By Sandra Emerson Staff Writer
Created: 02/02/2011 05:22:19 PM PST
As expected, the Senate has rejected a Republican attempt to repeal the year-old health care law.
The ultimate fate of the controversial law is expected to be determined by the Supreme Court. But congressional Republicans emboldened by gains in last fall’s elections have made a priority of trying to wipe it off the books.
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/26/2011 03:11:01 PM PST
California’s U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would require the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set limits on the amount of hexavalent chromium in drinking water.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – 5:30 p.m.
This evenings early election results so far have a good night in store for republicans, who are slated to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and cut democrats to a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate.
Republicans will also take over a majority of statehouse governorships.
A dramatic drop in democratic turnout in California leaves the races for Governor and U.S. Senate uncertain at this hour.
Sunday, October 31, 2010 – 5:15 p.m.
Regardless of who wins or loses on election night, it will be interesting to hear the excuses from the pollsters about their prognostications.
The Field Poll and the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll, California’s two most widely-used, gave everyone an eye full the past two weeks with what appear to be wildly off-base polling numbers.
The number almost deserved the mocking endured by the Times/USC Poll.
10:09 AM PDT on Sunday, October 31, 2010
By JIM MILLER and DUANE W. GANG
The Press-Enterprise
SACRAMENTO – In 2006, the last time candidates for governor and U.S. senator shared a ballot, large majorities of voters in Riverside and San Bernardino counties helped re-elect Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
Leading into Tuesday’s election, the economically battered two-county region is a big piece of the campaigns by Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina to win hard-fought contests for governor and Senate.
Brown opens a 13-stop caravan in Oakland as Whitman courts independents and women in San Diego and Orange counties. Fiorina is in Seal Beach as a Boxer spot featuring President Obama hits the air.
Meg Whitman traveled to San Diego and Orange counties Saturday trying to appeal to independents and women. “We have a chance to … put the first woman governor in California in office,” she said. (Lenny Ignelzi, Associated Press / October 30, 2010)
By Cathleen Decker and Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times
October 31, 2010
Reporting from Los Angeles and Fresno —
Buffeted by advertising, besieged by phone calls, buried in campaign mailers, California voters on Tuesday will close out an election for the history books, its massive outlay part of a Republican effort to ride a national wave of enthusiasm and a Democratic attempt to turn out voters less motivated this year than in the landmark presidential election of 2008.
By Rob Hotakainen
rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Kicking off a three-day get-out-the-vote tour with a visit to Sacramento, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina urged Californians Saturday “to finally retire” Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, calling the incumbent a career politician who has not done enough to bring new jobs to the state.
The first lady tells about 1,000 supporters that Boxer, who is seeking a fourth Senate term, is an important advocate for the middle class and the Democratic Party agenda in Washington, D.C.
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
October 27, 2010
First Lady Michelle Obama lent her considerable star power to Sen. Barbara Boxer on Tuesday, telling hundreds of supporters in the Mid-Wilshire area that the three-term senator was a critical advocate for the middle class and the Democratic agenda in Washington, D.C.
Obama described Boxer as passionately supportive of members of the U.S. military and their families, as well as small businesses.
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
(10-26) 04:00 PDT Washington – –
The Republican woman who has the best chance to win in California on Nov. 2 is not billionaire Meg Whitman, who has spent more than $140 million of her own money to make sure every living thing knows who she is. It’s Carly Fiorina, another former Silicon Valley CEO with thinner pockets but a looser campaign style who has drawn incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer into a dead heat.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
October 25, 2010 | 8:04 am
With outside groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce already pouring in millions to defeat California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, the National Republican Senatorial Committee announced a $3-million independent expenditure for television ads in the final week of the campaign.
The committee, which rarely makes major expenditures in California, had already spent the maximum allowed — $4.8 million — in coordinated expenditures with GOP nominee Carly Fiorina’s campaign in what it views as a highly competitive race.
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Money and Politics
October 25, 2010 | Chase Davis
For all of the ink and airtime devoted to criticizing Republican Meg Whitman’s stock deals, she’s not the only top-of-the-ticket candidate who benefited from early access to initial public offerings, or IPOs.
At least twice during her political career, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer turned quick profits on IPOs that were unavailable to the general public, records and published reports show [PDF]. The transactions, which were made public in 1994 and 2000, allowed her exclusive access to several lucrative investments.
Fiorina
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer,
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 3:28 p.m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Buoyed by polls that show a tightening race, Republican Senate challenger Carly Fiorina says she is hopeful California voters will make national news on Nov. 2 by ousting incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina greeted volunteers at Republican headquarters in Sacramento on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, October 24, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
Last Updated: October 24, 2010 – 03:30 p.m.
This weekend we were all treated to another LA Times/USC poll.
However, instead of being disgusted, I rolled on the floor laughing.
In Santa Monica, Boxer urges backers to ‘volunteer’ or ‘give another five bucks.’ In Silicon Valley, Fiorina peps up phone bank workers. In L.A. and San Jose, Whitman targets Asian American votes. Brown is out of sight.
By Seema Mehta and Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
October 24, 2010
Candidates for California’s statewide offices worked to drum up support Saturday, touting their own records and proposals as they sought to blunt any movement by their opponents.
With early voters already able to cast ballots, what used to be a last-minute flurry to get out the vote has been extended dramatically, and the candidates were vying for any advantage Saturday.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
October 23, 2010 | 1:33 pm
Sen. Barbara Boxer, in the toughest reelection battle she has faced in decades, on Saturday painted her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina as an extremist on environmental issues who supports new offshore oil drilling.
October 21st, 2010, 1:41 pm · posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
At least five public polls have been released in the past week, some of which have different candidates ahead in the governor and U.S. Senate races. And there’s good reason why their results vary.
“They all have a different view of who the likely voter will be,” said election handicapper Allan Hoffenblum. “Nobody has the foggiest idea what the turnout will be.”
By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
October 22, 2010
One night a few years back, a California communications executive named Deborah Bowker was worried about her husband, who was sick and hospitalized. An old friend told her she shouldn’t be alone, that she should come over and stay the night.
The guest bedroom at the friend’s house was used most often by grandchildren, and contained two tiny beds. That night, Bowker was crying herself to sleep in one of them when the door cracked open. Without a word, Carly Fiorina padded across the room and crawled into the other bed.
October 20th, 2010, 9:00 pm · posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California gives Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer larger leads than other recent polls, but also continues trends of other major polls.
PPIC shows Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Brown leading Republican Meg Whitman, 44 percent to 36 percent among likely voters. Last month, PPIC had Whitman up by 1 point. RealClearPolitics.com’s aggregation of polls shows Brown taking the lead in most surveys since mid-September, and now holding an average of a 3.8-percentage point lead.
October 20, 2010
Propelled by his standing among Democrats, Latinos, women, liberals and especially moderates, Jerry Brown is leading Meg Whitman 44-36% in the latest survey by the Public Policy Institute of California, which also finds Barbara Boxer leading Carly Fiorina 43-38%.
Despite her massive spending – which is expected to reach $180 million – Republican Whitman has been unable to break away from Democrat Brown except among Republicans, conservatives and Southern Californians outside of Los Angeles.
By Jack Chang
jchang@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Top state Democrats acknowledged Wednesday that they’ll face an uphill climb to turn out voters next month given the sour national mood and a massive Republican get-out-the-vote operation financed by billionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman.
California Labor Federation head Art Pulaski said the GOP’s turnout advantage could give Republican candidates an extra percentage point or two of voter support on Election Day.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
October 20, 2010 | 3:45 pm
Candidates may be running away from President Obama elsewhere, but not in California. Earlier this week, the president cut a new radio ad for Barbara Boxer. And on Friday, Obama is heading to California for an appearance to help boost the Democratic ticket, which finds itself on uncertain political footing less than two weeks before Election Day.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 – 05:25 p.m.
Both republican nominees for California Governor and U.S. Senate took narrow leads over their democratic rivals in a rare live telephone poll conducted for the period October 13-14.
The poll conducted by Washington D.C.-based Wilson Research Strategies (WRS) sampled 800 likely voters on their preferences.
Barbara Boxer (left) is trying to paint Carly Fiorina as too conservative for traditionally Democratic California.
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By DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 10/19/10 2:51 PM EDT Updated: 10/20/10 6:05 AM EDT
LOS ANGELES — California’s Senate slugfest has turned into a battle of extremes as both candidates play to their political bases while still trying to entice support from the moderate middle.
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer’s campaign is using red-meat rhetoric against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, calling her way too conservative for this traditionally blue state — so extreme that she’d become a key Senate vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Fiorina
By Susan Ferriss
sferriss@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, under campaign fire for outsourcing jobs as a CEO, showcased an economic platform Tuesday that includes a tax break for businesses that bring jobs home.
Speaking to female business owners at a Sacramento-area restaurant, she called for a five-year tax holiday for startup businesses and a 10-year tax holiday for existing businesses that repatriate jobs that were exported.
Hon. Willie Brown
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Posted By: Joe Garofoli | October 19 2010 at 12:08 PM
Just got back from Willie Brown’s annual pre-election breakfast in San Francisco — a place for donors and pols to schmooze. Even Guv Schwarzenegger showed up (to a standing O, no less).
After we fought through the line of folks there to kiss Willie’s ring afterwards, we asked the Da Mayor about something one of the morning’s speakers, former Gov. Gray Davis campaign czar Garry South, said about the lack of a Democratic ground operation.
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Posted By: Carolyn Lochhead | October 19 2010 at 08:41 AM
As promised to our intrepid Joe Garofoli, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has unloaded an estimated $1.25 million in new ads aiming to knock out incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Jerry Brown.
10:00 PM PDT on Monday, October 18, 2010
By DUANE W. GANG
The Press-Enterprise
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina touted her job-creation plan Monday at a shuttered San Bernardino car dealership and slammed Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer for failing to work harder to stem rising unemployment.
“This election is about her record,” Fiorina said in the former showroom of the closed Mitsubishi dealer. “This election is about jobs.”
Carly Fiorina Barbara Boxer
By Rob Hotakainen
rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 – 1:25 am
WASHINGTON – They may not agree on much, but Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her GOP rival, former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, are eagerly airing the federal stimulus program in this fall’s red-hot Senate campaign.
Both have been using human examples to argue their case.
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Posted By: Carolyn Lochhead | October 18 2010 at 05:02 PM
As prelude to President Obama’s actual arrival for private fundraisers in the Palo Alto area Thursday and a rally and fundraiser in Los Angeles Friday for incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, the prez is featured on a new radio ad for Boxer.
Two members of a Republican rally in Anaheim, Calif. | AP photo
In the eyes of the experts, the House Democratic majority most likely won’t survive Nov. 2
By JAMES HOHMANN | 10/17/10 6:10 PM EDT Updated: 10/18/10 5:06 AM EDT
More bad polls. More bad fundraising numbers. More dreary talk on the Sunday shows.
It added up to a brutal weekend for Democrats, as the consensus among election analysts, already bearish on the party’s prospects, took a turn for the worse over the past 48 hours.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
October 16, 2010 | 1:40 pm
Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record on military issues and calling her the “most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today” — an assessment he said he’d made while having “the unpleasant experience” of serving with her.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 – 10:00 a.m.
The latest poll released Friday afternoon has the races for California Governor and U.S. Senate tightening.
A poll released by Reuters/Ipsos has democrat Jerry Brown leading republican Meg Whitman 48% to 44% in the race for Governor. Democrat Barbara Boxer is only edging republican Carly Fiorina 46% to 45%.
Fiorina has been steadily closing in on Boxer over the past ten days, while the Whitman-Brown polling numbers appear to have become more fluid.
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Posted By: Carolyn Lochhead | October 15 2010 at 02:19 PM
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the race between incumbent California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in a dead heat — with Boxer just one point ahead, 46 to 45 percent of likely voters — and 18 days to go to election day.
Barbara Boxer Carly Fiorina
Election 2010: California Senate
Incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer continues to hold the slightest of leads over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in California’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in California shows Boxer with 49% support and Fiorina with 46%. Two percent (2%) prefer another candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Boxer
By PE Politics
on October 12, 2010 5:18 PM
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer voted early today in Riverside, and likely cast her vote for a host of statewide propositions on the November ballot.
But after dropping off her ballot, Boxer did not say how she weighed in on five of those measures — propositions 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26. She already has taken a public stance on propositions 19, 20, 23 and 27.
Boxer Fiorina
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Barbara Boxer is a staunch supporter of President Obama’s policies. Carly Fiorina sees tax cuts and lower federal spending as the way to fix the economy.
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
October 10, 2010
In an election year when voters have soured on their leaders and are deeply anxious about the glacial pace of economic recovery, the two candidates vying for California’s U.S. Senate seat have offered sharply different visions for the federal government’s role in guiding the country out of recession, as well as disagreeing on almost everything else.
The Republican Senate candidate says she plans to make sure Latino voters ‘understand who I am’ while making the case that Sen. Boxer is ‘no friend of the Latino community.’
Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina shakes hands with officials at a trucking company during a campaign appearance. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / October 1, 2010)
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
October 6, 2010
Reporting from San Diego —
Although she has struggled to capture the support of Latinos in her race against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina said Tuesday that she was mounting an aggressive campaign to reach that key segment of voters before election day.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
October 4, 2010 | 4:11 pm
The campaign of Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have joined forces to air a new ad that accuses Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of presiding over a state that has fallen into disrepair.
NRSC officials initially said they planned to spend at least $1.75 million to help Fiorina during the final week of her campaign to unseat the three-term senator. But after several weeks in which Fiorina has slid behind Boxer in the polls, the NRSC has moved up the timing — devoting $2 million to reinforce the message of the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive.
Boxer
By Rob Hotakainen
rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
WASHINGTON – Few would deny that Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is a polarizing figure in Washington and a power broker in Congress.
As she navigates her most difficult race in years, however, her record is on trial.
10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010
WASHINGTON
From Roll Call Report Syndicate, ©2010, Thomas Voting Reports, Inc. Here’s how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the week ending October 1.
House
September 29, 2010
A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California finds the races for governor and Senate just about where the Field Poll had them – with Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman in a dead heat for governor and Barbara Boxer leading Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate.
About the only significant shift PPIC found was a movement among those they identified as independents, who shifted 10 points in favor of Whitman, with Whitman now at 38% and Brown at 30% compared to July when Brown had 30% and Whitman had 28%. More on this odd finding later.*
By Jack Chang
jchang@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 – 6:23 am
PASADENA – The second debate between Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina erupted Wednesday into charges that each candidate was too extreme for California.
The two women took contrasting stands on abortion, health care reform and climate change legislation.
Barbara Boxer Carly Fiorina
The hourlong confrontation may be the Senate candidates’ last before the Nov. 2 election.
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2010
As they head into what could be their final debate, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina, are appealing to voters on parallel tracks, each chipping away at the other’s character on the airwaves and each trying to persuade voters that she has a superior approach to turning the economy around.
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
On election night in 1982, California Democrats gathered in downtown Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel for what they hoped would be victory celebrations in two intense, very tight contests for governor and U.S. senator.
Supporters of outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown, the Democrats’ Senate candidate, and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, their gubernatorial hopeful, filled adjacent ballrooms. And as the election closed at 8 p.m., the state’s leading pollster, Mervin Field, appeared on a local television station with results from “exit polls” of the day’s voters.
Sunday, September 26, 2010 – 10:00 p.m.
Over the last seven days we have been treated to a series of interesting poll numbers in the races for California Governor and U.S. Senate.
At times, polling results can generate public perception as to who the anointed-one will be. Sometimes they don’t. Never-the-less it’s a powerful suggestion.
Administrator’s Note: You can always tell which candidate the newspaper favors by the photo expression.
LOS ANGELES TIMES / USC POLL
Boxer leads Fiorina 51%-43% in Senate race, survey finds. Both Republicans are hampered by voters’ negative impressions of them, poll says.
Whitman, Brown, Boxer, Fiorina
Whitman has given a record $119 million to her campaign but is losing popularity. Brown leads among women and Latinos; but younger voters are only narrowly in his corner. Boxer led 44% to 35% when voters were asked who best understood them. Fiorina’s biggest headwind may be her opposition to President Obama. (Lucy Nicholson, Reuters; Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times; Justin Sullivan, Getty Images; Justin Sullivan; Pool Photo)
By Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
September 26, 2010|9:43 a.m.
Democrat Jerry Brown has moved into a narrow lead over Republican Meg Whitman in their fractious contest for governor, while his party colleague Barbara Boxer has opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll has found.
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, September 24, 2010
Although her job performance ratings are at an all-time low, Sen. Barbara Boxer has increased her lead over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in California’s U.S. Senate race, with the three-term incumbent leading the former Hewlett-Packard CEO 47 to 41 percent, according to a Field Poll released today.
September 23rd, 2010, 7:44 pm · posted by BRIAN JOSEPH, Sacramento Correspondent
Carly Fiorina takes a swipe at Barbara Boxer’s “arrogance” in Fiorna’s first television ad of the general election.
Entitled “Sir,” the ad replays the now-infamous exchange between the Democratic U.S. Senator and Army Corp. of Engineer Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh in June 2009 at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Posted By: Carla Marinucci | September 23 2010 at 10:00 PM
Talk about your political throwdown: there were moments during Thursday’s Bay Area Council debate between GOP blogger, strategist and party vice chair Jon Fleischman and Democratic consultant Garry South when you needed a flak jacket just to watch the action.
Carla Marinucci and Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Political Writers
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, September 17, 2010
Carly Fiorina talks to the Chronicle Editorial Board in the publisher’s conference room at the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept 16, 2010.
(09-16) 20:09 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Signaling a combative round in the California U.S. Senate contest, Republican Carly Fiorina on Thursday defended her new attack ad on “millionaire” U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, charging that the Democrat has consistently tried to “play class warfare” on the issues.
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Fox News Polls Track Midterm Election Races in 5 Key States
By Chris Stirewalt
Published September 14, 2010
Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio has jumped to a 16-point lead over independent Charlie Crist, according to the latest Fox News poll, as Republicans make gains across the country on dissatisfaction with President Obama’s agenda.
In the first round of Fox News battleground surveys for the 2010 election, Republican candidates for Senate and governor in Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio and California all kick off the election season in contention or ahead.
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The three-term incumbent is spending more than $2 million to air the 30-second spot that highlights her efforts to secure federal funds for clean energy jobs, day care centers and a center for wounded soldiers.
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
September 14, 2010
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer dipped into her formidable war chest Monday to air the first ad of the general election campaign for U.S. Senate, one that reintroduces her to California voters by highlighting her efforts to secure federal funds for clean energy jobs, day care centers and a San Diego-based care center for wounded soldiers.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
A key moment in “The Candidate,” a 1972 film about California politics, involves a wildfire near Malibu.
Democrat Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is desperately battling with Republican Sen. Crocker Jarmon, and when the fire breaks out, a McKay aide declares that “it’s perfect.”
September 13th, 2010, 11:07 am · posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
The CNN poll conducted Sept. 2-7 showed Republican Meg Whitman with a 48 percent to 46 percent lead over Democrat Jerry Brown. That’s within in the +/- 3.5 percent margin of error, but continues the general trend showing the two in a dead heat for the past two months, as charted by RealClearPolitics.
Recent polls by Rasmussen and Survey USA showed Whitman up by 3- and 7-percentage points respectively. While those two polls are sometimes criticized for leaning GOP, the CNN poll supports the idea the thinking that the race is deadlocked or that Whitman has a bare lead. However, Brown just began advertising last week and actively campaign the previous week, so we’ll see if that helps his numbers in upcoming polls.Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, barely led Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in the CNN poll, 48-44. This reflects the RealClearPolitics chart showing Fiorina closing slowly but steadily.
The Democratic senator says Fiorina is ‘in the pocket of big oil,’ while the Republican says the state’s climate change law ‘isn’t the right answer.’ Each accuses the other of endangering jobs.
Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
September 11, 2010
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said Friday that rival Carly Fiorina’s recent embrace of a November ballot measure that would roll back the state’s landmark global warming law was evidence that the Republican was “in the pocket of big oil” and “dirty coal.”
September 10, 2010
The new Meg Whitman TV ad featuring Bill Clinton attacking Jerry Brown in one of their 1992 presidential campaign debates is compelling stuff that – whether it’s accurate or not — could have a powerful impact on whether independents and younger voters see Brown as honest.
You have to consider the source, of course. The charge is made by President Bubba who looked America in the eye and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” But even if he’s a proven liar, Clinton remains popular with a lot of Californians.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer has accepted the staffer’s resignation, her office said.
By ERIKA LOVLEY | 9/8/10 3:25 PM EDT
A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports.
Barbara Boxer Carly Fiorina
Election 2010: California Senate: Fiorina (R) 48%, Boxer (D) 47%
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina remain in a dead heat in California’s race for the U.S. Senate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters, including leaners, shows Fiorina picking up 48% of the vote, while Boxer draws support from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) remain undecided.
By Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
September 7, 2010
California’s Democratic candidates marked the start of the fall campaign Monday in the embrace of their most committed supporters — hundreds of union workers who gathered at rallies across the state to pledge thousands of hours of calls to voters over the eight weeks before election day.
After a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon served by apron-clad candidates in downtown Los Angeles, union leaders launched a series of caustic attacks against Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s wealth and policy proposals, which include shrinking the state workforce by 40,000 jobs.
Republicans are fired up but lag in registration. Democrats have boosted their ranks but lack motivation. And top-of-the-ticket races are too close to call with eight weeks to go.
By Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
September 7, 2010
With the voters’ verdict only eight nail-biting weeks away, the outcome of California’s general election rests on the answer to one question: What happens when the national Republican wave crashes into the state’s Democratic seawall?
Republicans Whitman and Fiorina and Democrats Brown and Boxer bring different levels of wealth, history and intensity to their races in an unpredictable year.
By Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
September 5, 2010
The California campaigns for governor and senator can look like one big unwieldy whole, moving inexorably toward November, cluttering television screens and radio airwaves and mailboxes statewide. Close up, they are four campaigns distinct in style and personality. There is Republican Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor, where nothing is accidental. There is Democrat Jerry Brown’s challenge, reveling in its just-out-of-bed disorganization. There is Barbara Boxer’s campaign, that of a Democratic senator staring down her toughest challenge in an anti-incumbent year. And there is Carly Fiorina’s campaign, with its first-time candidate trying to replicate other come-from-behind Republican victories this rambunctious year.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee
Published: Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
It’s been 28 years since Californians have seen simultaneous, too-close-to-call duels for the governorship and U.S. Senate.
It was 1982, and it was a big Republican year. Attorney General George Deukmejian very narrowly defeated Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for the governorship, and San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson clobbered outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown for a vacant Senate seat.
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, September 6, 2010
Labor Day usually signals the beginning of the traditional election season – but this year, when it comes to California’s four big races, it’s more like the final furious stretch.
“All four races are close, and all for different reasons,” says Field pollster Mark DiCamillo.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, left, the incumbent and a Democrat, responds to a question during her debate with Republican challenger Carly Fiorina. Fewer than a million people are believed to have watched. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Pool Photo / September 1, 2010)
By George Skelton, Capitol Journal
September 6, 2010
From Sacramento-
Political rookie Carly Fiorina should book every televised debate with U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer that the senator will permit.
The Republican Senate nominee is trying to do just that, actually. But Boxer has been skittish, as incumbents usually are, not desiring to share the stage with a lesser-known challenger.
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