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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; 2012 primary election</title>
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		<title>Pareja picks Stark over Swalwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hayward businessman Chris Pareja, the conservative independent candidate who lost last week&#8217;s primary in the 15th Congressional District (in which Democrat Eric Swalwell will advance to challenge Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, in November) has given Swalwell what he calls an &#8220;anti-endorsement.&#8221; &#8220;Following last Tuesday’s results I called to congratulate Congressman Stark and Eric on qualifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Costa public employee union seeks Andersen appointment</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/14/contra-costa-public-employee-union-seeks-andersen-appointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candace andersen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[larry edginton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa Public Employees Union Local One may have endorsed her opponent but now that Danville Mayor Candace Andersen has won the District 2 supervisor seat in a landslide, the labor group is graciously asking Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint the victor. &#8220;Ms. Andersen was decisively elected to the District 2 seat,&#8221; wrote Local One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is one of these &#8216;Young Guns&#8217; shooting blanks?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/07/is-one-of-these-young-guns-shooting-blanks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/07/is-one-of-these-young-guns-shooting-blanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA-3. CA9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA-9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Vann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lodi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NRCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ricky gill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walnut Grove]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” are near the Bay Area, but one of them might be shooting blanks. Unofficial results from Tuesday’s primary in the 3rd Congressional District show incumbent John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, got 52.5 percent of the vote while “Young Gun” Kim Vann – a Colusa County supervisor – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary post-mortems on CA15, AD20 and AD25</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/07/primary-post-mortems-on-ca15-ad20-and-ad25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/07/primary-post-mortems-on-ca15-ad20-and-ad25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Assembly election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ArLyne Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Quirk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CA15]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Pareja]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[direct mail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Ong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Reynoso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milpitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete McHugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Clara]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarabjit Cheema]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent yesterday starting to unpack what the new top-two system hath wrought upon California’s state legislative and House races – something we’ll be unpacking for years, I suspect – but today I’ve some time to dissect the still-unofficial results in few interesting Bay Area races. 15th Congressional District Incumbent Pete Stark, D-Fremont, finished first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CoCo Supervisor Glover wins re-election in a landslide!</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/05/coco-supervisor-glover-wins-re-election-in-a-landslide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/05/coco-supervisor-glover-wins-re-election-in-a-landslide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Nejedly Piepho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Menesini]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Er, it helps to run unopposed. Contra Costa County Supervisor Federal Glover just put out a press release thanking voters for re-electing him to a fifth term. &#8220;All the work positioning myself in regional policy-making bodies and building relationships are paying paying off,&#8221; he said in the statement. &#8220;The people see the results of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who bankrolled campaigns for, against Prop. 29?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/04/who-bankrolled-campaigns-for-against-prop-19/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/04/who-bankrolled-campaigns-for-against-prop-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACS Cancer Action Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Cancer Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Heart Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Lung Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Snuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballot measure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Californians Against Unaccountable Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core-Mark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Perata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irwin Mark Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Middleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LiveStrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MapLight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McLane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R.J. Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reynolds American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Fe Natural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Smokeless]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those wonderful folks at Berkeley-based MapLight.org have crunched numbers on who bankrolled the campaigns for and against Proposition 29, the measure on tomorrow’s ballot that would impose a $1-per-pack tobacco tax to fund cancer research. The data is as of this afternoon: SUPPORT: $12.3 million raised in total 1. American Cancer Society – $8,467,937 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More CC supervisor mailers, these pro-Andersen</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/01/more-cc-supervisor-mailers-these-pro-andersen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/01/more-cc-supervisor-mailers-these-pro-andersen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candace andersen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[june 2012 primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomi van de brooke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters have plenty of campaign mailers to peruse this election, especially in the highly competitive District 2 Contra Costa supervisor fight between Danville Mayor Candace Andersen and Contra Costa Community College board President Tomi Van de Brooke. Yesterday, I posted mailers put out by independent expenditure committees who support Van de Brooke. Below, you&#8217;ll see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New voter #s: Registration up, parties down</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/01/new-voter-s-registration-up-parties-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/01/new-voter-s-registration-up-parties-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter registration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Bowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline to state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eligible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no party preference]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I certainly hope all of you vote in next Tuesday’s election – all 17,153,699 of you. That’s the total number of California’s registered voters, up by more than a million from this time four years ago, according to the new report issued Friday by Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Partisanship continues to decline: The percentage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor and abortion rights advocates play in CoCo District 2 supervisor race</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/31/labor-and-abortion-rights-advocates-play-in-coco-district-2-supervisor-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/31/labor-and-abortion-rights-advocates-play-in-coco-district-2-supervisor-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candace andersen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomi van de brooke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=19991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor and abortion rights activists have poured nearly $50,000 into the intense county supervisor race between Contra Costa Community College Board President Tomi Van de Brooke and Danville Mayor Candace Andersen. Funded by two independent expenditure committees, robocalls and mailers remind voters leading up to Tuesday&#8217;s election that Van de Brooke is the abortion-rights option [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counties deal with military/overseas voting snafu</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/29/counties-deal-with-militaryoverseas-voting-snafu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/29/counties-deal-with-militaryoverseas-voting-snafu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[complaint]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debra Bowen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven California counties including Contra Costa, San Mateo and San Francisco didn’t meet a federal law&#8217;s deadline for sending out vote-by-mail ballots to military families and other Americans living abroad, federal and state officials announced Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Justice simultaneously announced a lawsuit and a settlement agreement Tuesday to remedy the situation under [...]]]></description>
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