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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Abel Maldonado</title>
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		<title>Canciamilla: Burton doesn&#8217;t speak for all Dems</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/10/29/canciamilla-burton-doesnt-speak-for-all-dems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, D-Pittsburg, accompanied Republican incumbent Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado to his campaign stop this afternoon in Walnut Creek. Per my article, he explained that serving with Maldonado in the Assembly convinced him that Maldonado is truly interested in working across the political aisle, and is a straight shooter who means what he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldonado takes conservative heat on Prop. 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=13312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A conservative group is calling Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, the Republican nominee to keep the job come November, “incompetent and dangerous” given his refusal to mount a legal defense of Proposition 8’s same-sex marriage ban while the governor is gone. The Capitol Resource Institute, a Sacramento-based conservative advocacy group, issued a news release last Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Dem group snubs Newsom for Lt. Gov.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/09/02/sf-dem-group-snubs-newsom-for-lt-gov/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/09/02/sf-dem-group-snubs-newsom-for-lt-gov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abel Maldonado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lt. Governor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political action committee of San Francisco for Democracy – a grassroots progressive group “inspired by the leadership of Howard Dean” – released its slate of endorsements yesterday for November’s election. The group endorsed Democrats for every congressional, legislative and statewide office – with the exception of the lieutenant governor’s office, for which San Francisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsom leads Maldo in fundraising for Lt.Gov.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/08/02/newsom-leads-maldo-in-fundraising-for-lt-gov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incumbent Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, the former state Senator from Santa Maria appointed and confirmed to the job earlier this year, today reported raising almost $127,000 and spending less than $12,000 from May 23 through June 30, leaving him with almost $90,600 cash on hand at mid-year. That puts him well behind Democratic nominee for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A musical primary post-mortem</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/06/09/a-musical-primary-post-mortem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/06/09/a-musical-primary-post-mortem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I’m having a good day, or sometimes when I’m down, I sometimes give myself a gift on the limited budget available to me as a reporter: a 99-cent splurge on new iTunes song for my iPod. And so as the primary election winners strut and the losers lick their wounds, here are a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New study shows pluses, minuses of open primaries</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/04/29/new-study-shows-pluses-minuses-of-open-primaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/04/29/new-study-shows-pluses-minuses-of-open-primaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abel Maldonado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=11482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The nonpartisan Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles has released an excellent analysis of the impacts of Proposition 14, the open primary initiative on the June 8 ballot. The authors&#8217; chief conclusions support proponents&#8217; arguments that open primaries could generate more competition, increase the number of moderates in elected office and boost the impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldo, Anthem, subway and more on ‘TWINC’</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/13/maldo-anthem-subway-and-more-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/13/maldo-anthem-subway-and-more-on-%e2%80%98twinc%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on KQED Channel 9’s “This Week in Northern California” last night talking about the Abel Maldonado mess. The show also featured the Chronicle’s Victoria Colliver on Anthem Blue Cross’ rate hikes; KQED Public Radio’s K. Oanh Ha on the 2010 State of the Valley Conference; and the Chronicle’s Rachel Gordon on the groundbreaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldo withdrawn, re-submitted for Lt. Gov.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/12/maldo-withdrawn-re-submitted-for-lt-gov/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/12/maldo-withdrawn-re-submitted-for-lt-gov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the governor has backed off his initial plan to swear in Abel Maldonado as lieutenant governor later this month despite last night’s Assembly vote – he has withdrawn Maldonado’s name from nomination and then resubmitted it, effectively restarting the 90-day clock for another vote. Maldonado issued this statement: “I’m humbled and thankful to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in the Democratic AG primary race</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/08/today-in-the-democratic-ag-primary-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/02/08/today-in-the-democratic-ag-primary-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of the six Democrats vying for California Attorney General had news to report today. Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, led a news conference with other Assembly Democrats this morning in Sacramento asking their colleagues to vote against confirming state Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, for lieutenant governor. Nava said a look at Maldonado’s record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week: Is Abel able?, and, &#8216;Big Papi&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/12/05/this-week-is-abel-able-and-big-papi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/12/05/this-week-is-abel-able-and-big-papi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Perez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” last night to talk about the Machiavellian machinations behind choosing the next Lieutenant Governor and the next Assembly Speaker. I didn&#8217;t have time for a Perez-related anecdote. At least one prominent Democratic strategist shopped around the idea this week that &#8211; just as renowned former Assembly [...]]]></description>
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