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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; California Assembly</title>
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		<title>Buchanan appointed to chair state reorganization committee</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/16/buchanan-appointed-to-chair-state-reorganization-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, has been appointed chairwoman of a special committee that will examine Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s executive branch reorganization proposal. Buchanan is more than capable of this task. But sheesh, what did she do to earn this thankless assignment? Hit  Speaker John Perez&#8217; car in the state garage? (Just kidding. About the car.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly looks at wasteful health care district spending</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/04/09/assembly-looks-at-wasteful-health-care-district-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/04/09/assembly-looks-at-wasteful-health-care-district-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[assemblyman roger dickenson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Concord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contra costa local agency formation commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contra costa supervisor karen mitchoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Taxpayers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daymon doss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lafco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mt. diablo health care district]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supervisor karen mitchoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and a foe of the Mt. Diablo Health Care District, targeted by local regulators for transfer to the city of Concord to eliminate costly elections and overhead, are among the speakers at Wednesday morning&#8217;s Assembly hearing on health care district. Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review Chairman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, will lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money race for open East Bay Assembly seats</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/03/23/money-race-for-open-east-bay-assembly-seats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/03/23/money-race-for-open-east-bay-assembly-seats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Assembly election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abel Guillen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alameda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Quirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash on hand]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gene gantt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Ong]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[len augustine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luis Reynoso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike hudson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pat Hernandez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raised]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhonda Weber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarabjit Cheema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The East Bay’s open-seat Assembly races are seeing some fierce financial competition, according to campaign finance reports due yesterday. In the 18th Assembly District, Alameda Vice Mayor Rob Bonta, a Democrat, raised the most from Jan. 1 through March 17 – $76,066.30 – and has loaned his own campaign $7,500; spent $94,323.96 during that period; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly dream job?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/25/assembly-dream-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/25/assembly-dream-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california state university sacramento]]></category>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/28/assemblywoman-hayashi-charged-with-shoplifting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assemlbywoman mary hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neiman marcus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco district attorney's office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shoplifting]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/09/08/oakley-mayor-enters-ad11-race/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/08/26/legislature-posts-members-spending/#comments</comments>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=16928</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/03/02/new-assembly-speaker-to-raise-money-for-buchanan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/03/02/new-assembly-speaker-to-raise-money-for-buchanan/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/12/governor-signs-half-of-contra-costa-lawmakers-bills/</link>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[California Legislature]]></category>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=8696</guid>
		<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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