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		<title>Alameda County GOP infights over foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/17/alameda-county-gop-infights-over-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expect fireworks at tonight’s Alameda County Republican Central Committee meeting, as there’s a debate and vote on a proposed resolution endorsing a non-interventionist foreign policy – which in the short term means pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan. The resolution was introduced by committeemen Jerry Salcido, Walter Stanley III and David LaTour – the county [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoints on trying the 9/11 detainees</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/13/viewpoints-on-trying-the-911-detainees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this morning that five alleged terrorists believed to have taken part in planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be brought from the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to New York City, where they’ll be tried in federal court. From House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio: “The Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s chief of staff to jump ship?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/12/schwarzeneggers-chief-of-staff-to-jump-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/12/schwarzeneggers-chief-of-staff-to-jump-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This post comes courtesy of Steve Harmon, our man in Sacramento…) The administration is knocking down rumors that Susan Kennedy, the all-powerful and influential chief of staff for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is preparing to leave the administration for a job with Mercury Public Affairs to shepherd the water bond campaign. &#8220;No,&#8221; said Aaron McLear, spokesman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Yoo asks that torture lawsuit be dismissed</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/10/john-yoo-asks-that-torture-lawsuit-be-dismissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Professor John Yoo – widely recognized as an architect of Bush Administration policies on torture and detainee rights – has filed a brief asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner. American citizen Jose Padilla claims Yoo, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMA: Marijuana has medical value</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/10/ama-marijuana-has-medical-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/10/ama-marijuana-has-medical-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As proposed ballot measures and a legislative bill to allow recreational marijuana use advance here in California, medical marijuana advocates scored a big win today as the American Medical Association shifts to a friendlier stance. The AMA’s House of Delegates voted to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be classified on the Controlled Substances Act’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local ICE billboards focus on human trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/local-ice-billboards-focus-on-human-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/local-ice-billboards-focus-on-human-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has put up three Bay Area billboards – two in Oakland, one in San Francisco – as part of a 15-city outdoor advertising campaign to call attention to the evils of human trafficking. The “Hidden in Plain Sight” campaign urges the public to take action if they encounter people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nehring, other GOP chairs discuss party&#8217;s future</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/nehring-other-gop-chairs-discuss-partys-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/nehring-other-gop-chairs-discuss-partys-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring is headed for New York City, where he’ll be holding a sort of summit meeting tomorrow with the GOP chairs from New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Wisconsin to map out the party’s strategy for 2010. To hear many tell it, they’re convening at the end of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Marijuana enforcement failing, biased</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/report-marijuana-enforcement-failing-biased/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/05/report-marijuana-enforcement-failing-biased/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=9141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Californians keep gathering petition signatures for marijuana legalization ballot measures and a state lawmaker rewrites his legalization bill, marijuana reform advocates today are touting a new report that finds no relationship between marijuana arrest and use rates – a sign that the “war on drugs” has failed as far as cannabis is concerned, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign finance update: Pot and Perata</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/02/campaign-finance-update-pot-and-perata/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/02/campaign-finance-update-pot-and-perata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S.K. Seymour LLC, the partnership that runs Oakstersdam University and its related “cannabusinesses,” last Tuesday gave $10,000 to Hope 2010, a ballot measure committee (formerly known as Leadership California) controlled by former state Senate President Pro Tem and 2010 Oakland mayoral candidate Don Perata. Perata in September publicly endorsed the “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer: GOP boycott won&#8217;t stop climate-change bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/30/boxer-gop-boycott-wont-stop-climate-change-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/30/boxer-gop-boycott-wont-stop-climate-change-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is moving ahead with her cap-and-trade climate change bill despite Republican threats to boycott next Tuesday’s mark-up session. &#8220;That won&#8217;t stop us. We&#8217;re going to use every tool at our disposal to get that done,&#8221; she said this afternoon during a visit to Blue [...]]]></description>
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