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		<title>DeSaulnier seeks criminal probe of Caltrans</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/29/desaulnier-seeks-criminal-probe-of-caltrans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An East Bay lawmaker asked Attorney General Kamala Harris today to open an criminal investigation into accusations of falsified inspections of the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge now under construction. State Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Chairman Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, wants Harris to probe Caltrans’ Foundation Inspection Branch, which was the targeted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kamala Harris reacts to feds&#8217; marijuana blitz</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/21/kamala-harris-reacts-to-feds-marijuana-blitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Kamala Harris has now issued a brief statement about the recently announced federal crackdown on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries: &#8220;Californians overwhelmingly support the compassionate use of medical marijuana for the ill. We should all be troubled, however, by the proliferation of gangs and criminal enterprises that seek to exploit this law by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATF: No guns for medical marijuana users</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/07/atf-no-guns-for-medical-marijuana-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/07/atf-no-guns-for-medical-marijuana-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=17343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost lost in the hubbub of this week’s IRS and Justice Department crackdowns on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries was another revelation of federal action: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is telling gun sellers it’s illegal for medical marijuana patients to own firearms. The Sept. 21 letter from ATF Assistant Director Arthur Herbert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. gets bill to take prohibited guns off streets</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/29/gov-gets-bill-to-take-prohibited-guns-off-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/29/gov-gets-bill-to-take-prohibited-guns-off-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Assembly today passed a Bay Area lawmaker’s bill that would provide more resources to find and confiscate guns belonging to convicted felons and the mentally ill. SB 819 by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, passed on a 48-23 vote; the state Senate had approved it June 1 on a 22-16 vote, so it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California again defends healthcare reform law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/07/07/california-again-defends-healthcare-reform-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11th Circuit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Kamala Harris – who already had joined friend-of-the-court briefs defending the constitutionality of last year’s federal healthcare reform law in the 6th, 4th and 11th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal – has now done so again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. “Health care reform saves lives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kamala Harris names Justice Dept.&#8217;s new top cop</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/02/kamala-harris-names-justice-dept-s-new-top-cop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/02/kamala-harris-names-justice-dept-s-new-top-cop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suzy Loftus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Kamala Harris today named a former Bay Area police officer as the first black director of the state Justice Department’s Division of Law Enforcement. Larry Wallace will oversee the department&#8217;s $238 million budget, 437 special agents, 281 criminalists, and 693 non-sworn personnel. He most recently served as deputy chief of the bureau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AG Harris launches mortgage fraud strike force</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/23/ag-harris-launches-mortgage-fraud-strike-force/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/23/ag-harris-launches-mortgage-fraud-strike-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced she’s creating a Mortgage Fraud Strike Force staffed by state Department of Justice attorneys and investigators charged with the duty of “protecting innocent homeowners and bringing to justice those who defraud them,” according to her news release. “Californians in search of the American dream all too often found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Costa DA pulls out of AG investigation</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/11/contra-costa-da-pulls-out-of-ag-investigation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/11/contra-costa-da-pulls-out-of-ag-investigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson will no longer permit his staff to aide the attorney general&#8217;s investigation of a recently reinstated prosecutor, Michael Gressett, charged with the rape of a colleague. Read the full story by reporter John Simerman here. But here are the first few paragraphs: In his campaign last year for Contra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former AG candidate blasts Harris for backing law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/01/21/former-ag-candidate-blasts-harris-for-backing-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/01/21/former-ag-candidate-blasts-harris-for-backing-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Tom Harman, who while seeking the GOP nomination for attorney general less than a year ago said California should join with states suing to overturn the health care reforms passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, today blasted Attorney General Kamala Harris for helping to file a brief in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redistricting, prisons and the new AG on &#8216;TWINC&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/12/04/redistricting-prisons-and-the-new-ag-on-twinc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/12/04/redistricting-prisons-and-the-new-ag-on-twinc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California,” Lisa talked about the new citizens’ redistricting commission; I talked about the prison overcrowding case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court; and the Chronicle’s Marisa Lagos talked about Kamala Harris clinching the election for state Attorney General:]]></description>
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