For nearly two decades, California has not been a hospitable environment for statewide Republicans, and that’s why nobody has spent millions of dollars on TV ads in any Republican campaign in more than a dozen years. Well, not until this year’s primary election. And it took a Democratic campaign and allied independent expenditures to do it. More … Read more
It is estimated that the U.S. government owns 45,000 underutilized buildings and Representative Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, wants to see this vast resource repurposed to fight the nation’s affordable housing crisis. That is why on Tuesday morning, April 1, he introduced the Government Facilities to Affordable Housing Conversion Act. If passed, the bill would create an … Read more
Perhaps no moment better underscored what set Oakland’s Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee apart from her leading rivals in the race for California’s open U.S. Senate seat — as well as most of her colleagues in Congress — as an exchange in the debate. Asked about the Golden State’s vexing homelessness problem, Republican political rookie Steve … Read more
When Dianne Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, joined by Barbara Boxer that same year, it was a first for California. The first time a woman had represented the state in the Senate, and the first state with two women senators. It also marked the first time four women were elected to … Read more
A 15-second ad during a Good Morning America commercial break this week featured an attack on Jerry McNerney, the former congressman who is currently one of the two leading candidates in the California State Senate District 5 race. It painted him as a hypocrite who criticized and then accepted PAC money. “Former Congressman Jerry McNerney … Read more
