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		<title>Prop. 1A&#8217;s union foes: Voters OK with tax hikes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/21/prop-1as-union-foes-voters-ok-with-tax-hikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted yesterday, we’ll now have a post-special-election period of argument over what the election results mean. The No on Prop. 1A campaign today released the results of a poll – a David Binder Research survey of 1,008 voters, 603 of whom voted in the special election and 405 of whom did not, conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s $21.3 billion hangover</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/20/californias-213-billion-hangover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the morning after, and despite abyssmally low special-election voter turnout &#8212; the Secretary of State&#8217;s office has it pegged right now at 22.9 percent, although there are mail-in ballots yet to be counted &#8212; the post-special-election rhetoric is flying hot and heavy. Conservatives are convinced the ballot measures’ drubbing means Californians are fed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alameda County&#8217;s voter turnout looks looooooow</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/19/alameda-countys-voter-turnout-looks-looooooow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alameda County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy Ashley, spokesman for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, said voter turnout for today’s special election looks rather bleak. “The polling places have had very light traffic,” he said based on reports from the field, noting he had visited a few polling places in North Oakland and Berkeley earlier this afternoon and hadn’t found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lottery firm coughs up $250k more for Prop. 1C</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/11/lottery-firm-coughs-up-250k-more-for-prop-1c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 23:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With poll numbers in the dumps and the special election just eight days away, California’s longtime lottery contractor, Rhode Island-based gaming technology and services company GTECH, pumped another $250,000 today into &#8220;Californians for Modernization,&#8221; the committee it created in March to support Proposition 1C. Prop. 1C, of course, calls for modernizing the state lottery &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news for the special-election measures</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/07/bad-news-for-the-special-election-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Public Policy Institute of California’s latest poll shows that as interest has grown in the May 19 special election, opposition has grown to the ballot measures with five of the six headed for defeat: Prop. 1A, the spending cap/rainy-day fund: 52 percent no, 35 percent yes Prop. 1B, restoring money cut from education: 47 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Party opposes special-election measures</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/05/green-party-opposes-special-election-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make a note on your calendars: This was the day on which the Green Party of California and the California Republican Party were on the same page. Well, sort of. The Green Party, which said it polled its members and county councils before coming to a decision, y today urged state voters to vote against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday is voter registration deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/01/monday-is-voter-registration-deadline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/01/monday-is-voter-registration-deadline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Monday, May 4 is the last day to register or re-register to vote in the May 19 special election, wherein voters will decide on six budget-related ballot measures. To be eligible to register to vote in this election, a person must be a U.S. citizen and California resident; at least 18 years old on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See, it&#8217;s OK to disagree.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/04/24/see-its-ok-to-disagree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/04/24/see-its-ok-to-disagree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I saw San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Ramon Castellblanch angrily denouncing Proposition 1A, the spending-cap/rainy-day-fund measure on the May 19 special-election ballot, claiming it would be &#8220;devastating&#8221; to the future of public higher education in California. Apparently state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, who helped broker the budget deal that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 19 ballot pamphlets are &#8216;in the mail&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/04/22/may-19-ballot-pamphlets-are-in-the-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mailing of state-issued pamphlets for the May 19 statewide special election are lagging behind the schedules of Bay Area election offices, which began sending vote-by-mail ballots on Monday. For folks who haven&#8217;t made up their minds yet, the ballot pamphlet contains overviews of the six statewide measures and the arguments for and against each of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker Bass urges passage of May 19 ballot measures</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/04/17/speaker-bass-urges-passage-of-may-19-ballot-measures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/04/17/speaker-bass-urges-passage-of-may-19-ballot-measures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, invited me to sit down with her for about a half-hour this afternoon between her Bay Area events. After Bass accepted an award from Girls Inc. for her work with youth, we met in the oddly named &#8220;Bridal Room&#8221; at the new downtown Oakland Catholic cathedral. (We&#8217;re pretty sure [...]]]></description>
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