Topic: Jerry Brown

In urging California Governor Jerry Brown to veto a gay history bill, social conservatives have labeled it an attack on the familyIn calling on California Governor Jerry Brown to veto a gay history bill, social conservatives have labeled it an attack on ...

Big governor wins spell 2012 trouble for Obama

The final results were still trickling in Wednesday, but Republicans had captured 10 previously Democratic governorships and lost two of their own, giving them a significant net gain of eight.That figure slims to seven if you include Lincoln Chafee -- a former ...
The Republican tide included the second Indian American governor, in South Carolina, and the first female Hispanic governor, in New Mexico, among 10 total gains in gubernatorial polls held the same day as mid-term elections.The loss of so many governorships was a ...

California's high-stakes elections go down to wire

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's no coincidence that President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton visited California university campuses during the final weeks of the 2010 midterm election.With Obama still fairly popular in the Golden State despite the beating his approval ...

Obama courts young voters as election looms

Obama was to become the first sitting president to appear on the program hosted by Jon Stewart, whose nightly skewerings of political hypocrisy and US media shortcomings have made him a star, notably with young Democrats.With the party fearing a rout at ...

Lukewarm Los Angeles Times endorses Jerry Brown

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Los Angeles Times has chosen sides in California's gubernatorial race -- though it wasn't overly enthusiastic about its endorsement.The newspaper is backing Democratic candidate Jerry Brown over his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, in the November 2 ...

Choices Ahead For Today's Unions

Politics: Less than two years ago, everything seemed to be breaking unions' way. This Labor Day weekend is the official kickoff point for what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a "massive mobilization" to elect Democrats in November. But the labor movement faces ...

The Choices Ahead For Big Labor

Politics: Less than two years ago, everything seemed to be breaking unions' way. This Labor Day weekend is the official kickoff point for what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a "massive mobilization" to elect Democrats in November. But the labor movement faces ...
Jerry Brown's campaign tale of frugality overlooks his $1.8 million home, with view of SF BayWhen he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor's mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented ...
Brown, Whitman come from different worlds, offering stark choice in Calif. gubernatorial raceShe's chartered jet, he's Southwest. Her mentor was Mitt Romney, he worked for Mother Teresa. She pays her chief campaign consultant $90,000-a-month, his worked for free most of last year.Meg ...
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