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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; California Assembly</title>
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		<title>Assembly dream job?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/25/assembly-dream-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jesse unruh assembly fellowship program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About to graduate from college but don&#8217;t have a job lined up? The pay isn&#8217;t great but the benefits sound good. The application period has opened for the 2012-2013 Jesse Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program, an 11-month stint working in the California Legislature. Fellows earn $1,972 a month plus health, dental and vision benefits. Participants learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assemblywoman Hayashi charged with shoplifting</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/28/assemblywoman-hayashi-charged-with-shoplifting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Bay Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi has pled not guilty to a charge she shoplifted more than $2,400 in Neiman Marcus clothing on Sunday from the ritzy San Francisco department store, prosecutors say. The Hayward Democrat has been charged with one count of felony grand theft. Hayashi spokesman Sam Singer called the incident a “mistake and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakley mayor enters AD11 race</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/09/08/oakley-mayor-enters-ad11-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Assembly election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11th Assembly District]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim frazier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Nejedly Piepho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oakley Mayor Jim Frazier will run for state Assembly next year in a newly carved district that encompasses most of East Contra Costa County and a majority of Solano County. The 52-year-old Democratic general contractor’s decision to enter the state contest also ends speculation that he will challenge Contra Costa Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature posts members&#8217; spending</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/26/legislature-posts-members-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Corbett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark DeSaulnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Bonilla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bowing to political pressure, the California Legislature has released its members&#8217; office spending numbers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Assembly spending Dec. 1, 2009, through Nov. 30, 2010  Assembly spending Dec. 1, 2010, through July 31, 2011 Senate spending Dec. 1, 2009, through Nov. 30, 2010 But the man who started this debate, Assemblyman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First all-woman delegation leads Contra Costa</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/22/first-all-woman-delegation-leads-contra-costa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/22/first-all-woman-delegation-leads-contra-costa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly District 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Bonilla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in Contra Costa County history, all three of its representatives in the California Assembly are women. That bucks state and national trends, where despite comprising slightly more than half the population, women make up less than a third of the California Legislature, 16 percent of the House of Representatives and 17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Assembly Speaker to raise money for Buchanan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abram Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california speaker of the assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundraiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Perez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Assembly Speaker John Pérez will headline a fundraiser for Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo on March 18 at Round Hill Country Club. The event is billed as an opportunity to &#8220;meet the new Speaker of the Assembly.&#8221; The price of the encounter ranges from $100 for the &#8220;friend&#8221; seat at dinner to $7,800 for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov signs half of Contra Costa lawmakers&#8217; bills</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/12/governor-signs-half-of-contra-costa-lawmakers-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark DeSaulnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Torlakson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conta Costa representatives in the state Legislature posted mixed results in this weekend&#8217;s billapalooza, an avalanche of nearly 700 bills released after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger decided late Sunday that sufficient progress had been made on water talks. State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier&#8217;s &#8220;There Ought to Be a Law&#8221; initiative produced a bill that requires workers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Bay legislators dubious about state water deal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/09/east-bay-legislators-dubious-about-state-water-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/09/east-bay-legislators-dubious-about-state-water-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california water policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark DeSaulnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Torlakson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I talked with three Contra Costa state lawmakers via telephone this morning about their views on the Big Five water talks under way in Sacramento today. I did not hear much optimism about a the chances of a deal by tonight&#8217;s deadline. Sen. Mark DeSaulnier and assemblymembers Joan Buchanan and Tom Torlakson view the closed-door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Ramon mayor featured in National Review</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/23/san-ramon-mayor-featured-in-national-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/23/san-ramon-mayor-featured-in-national-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly District 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Nordlinger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Ramon Mayor Abram Wilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Ramon Mayor and GOP Assembly candidate Abram Wilson is featured in National Review, the well-known conservative publication. National Review senior editor Jay Nordlinger captured Wilson&#8217;s personality in the piece, titled &#8220;The Making of a Mayor,&#8221; through family stories and anecdotes. The author used a unique bullet-style format, which I liked (and may well borrow) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OC blogger speculates on Duvall tape leak</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/10/oc-blogger-speculates-on-duvall-tape-leak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/10/oc-blogger-speculates-on-duvall-tape-leak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brian joseph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Duvall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange County register]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Orange Register blogger Brian Joseph&#8217;s juicy blog posting about the rampant speculation going on in the halls of Sacramento about who brought the video of the disgusting comments of Southern California Assemblyman Mike Duvall to the attention of the press. I doubt most folks outside Sacramento bubble care will spend much time worrying [...]]]></description>
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