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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about the Prop. 8 ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/07/what-theyre-saying-about-the-prop-8-ruling-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/07/what-theyre-saying-about-the-prop-8-ruling-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anna Eshoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darrell Steinberg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My esteemed colleague Howard Mintz has the full story on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and you can read the opinion yourself (assuming the court&#8217;s website doesn&#8217;t get overloaded again) by clicking here. Meanwhile, here’s a treasury of quotes from elected officials. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill on media access to prisoners advances</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/bill-on-media-access-to-prisoners-advances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/bill-on-media-access-to-prisoners-advances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB 1270]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books Not Bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Correctional Peace Officers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Newspaper Publishers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCPOA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ella Baker Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inmates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Media Workers Guild]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Assembly voted 47-22 today to pass a Bay Area lawmaker’s bill that would lift the ban on media interviews with specific inmates in California’s prisons. Since the ban on pre-arranged inmate interviews went into effect in 1996, bill author Tom Ammiano noted, eight versions of this bill have been vetoed by three governors. “Independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sandre Swanson drops 2012 state Senate bid</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/24/sandre-swanson-drops-2012-state-senate-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/24/sandre-swanson-drops-2012-state-senate-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandre Swanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[term limits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Assemblyman Sandre Swanson has abandoned his challenge to fellow Democrat state Sen. Loni Hancock. “I finally concluded that, setting all misunderstandings aside, that it’s the best interests of our community not to have a major Democrat-on-Democrat campaign when we’re trying to win a two-thirds majority in the Senate,” Swanson, D-Alameda, said a few minutes ago. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Open carry&#8217; foes turn attention to long guns</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/23/open-carry-foes-turn-attention-to-long-guns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/23/open-carry-foes-turn-attention-to-long-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthony Portantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some California gun-rights advocates had reacted to the state’s new law banning “open carry” of unloaded handguns in public places by openly carrying unloaded long guns instead, but a new bill from the same author aims to nip that in the bud, too. Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada Flintridge – now a lame duck, soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic endorsements, or the lack thereof</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/23/democratic-endorsements-or-the-lack-thereof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/23/democratic-endorsements-or-the-lack-thereof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Assembly election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Woolsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandre Swanson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abel Guillen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Qurik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Corbett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jared Huffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Ong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathy Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Solomon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-endorsement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarabjit Cheema]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There were some interesting Bay Area results from the California Democratic Party&#8217;s “pre-endorsing conferences” this past weekend, at which members of the party’s state central committee, county committees and local Democratic clubs got together to vote on who should get the nod for the June 6 primaries. A candidate would’ve needed 70 percent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milpitas&#8217; McHugh eyes run vs. Wieckowski in AD25</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/16/milpitas-mchugh-eyes-run-vs-wieckowski-in-ad25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/16/milpitas-mchugh-eyes-run-vs-wieckowski-in-ad25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Assembly election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AD20]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Weickowski]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pete McHugh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milpitas Vice Mayor Pete McHugh confirmed this afternoon that he’s considering running against Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, in the newly drawn 25th Assembly District. “I’ve got a lot of experience in local government and I would like to see if I can make a positive difference at the state level, and possibly try to solve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing on improving life for boys &amp; men of color</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/16/hearing-on-improving-life-for-boys-men-of-color/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/16/hearing-on-improving-life-for-boys-men-of-color/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandre Swanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[field hearing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[juvenile justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Probation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers will gather in Oakland this Friday to take testimony on ways to improve the life chances for young men of color through successful education, employment and juvenile justice programs. Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, D-Alameda, will chair a field hearing of the Assembly Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color from 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union City mayor ditched Dems for Assembly bid</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/11/union-city-mayor-ditched-dems-for-assembly-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/11/union-city-mayor-ditched-dems-for-assembly-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[20th Assembly District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AD-20]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Quirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hayward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Ong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarabjit Cheema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime Democrat Mark Green is hoping to stand out from the crowd seeking the newly drawn 20th Assembly District seat by running as an independent. Actually, his party affiliation died a while ago without so much as a whimper. Green, Union City’s mayor since 1993, ditched the Dems in November 2010 – five months after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal would vastly expand Legislature</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/proposal-would-vastly-expand-legislature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/proposal-would-vastly-expand-legislature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballot initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballot measure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John H. Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I’d seen every possible suggestion for breaking California’s legislative logjam and making lawmakers more beholden to the people, from top-two primaries to redistricting to docking lawmakers’ pay to a part-time Legislature. But this is a new one on me: Increasing the Legislature’s size almost a hundred-fold. Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torrico signs on as counsel to lobbying firm</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/torrico-signs-on-as-counsel-to-lobbying-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/torrico-signs-on-as-counsel-to-lobbying-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alberto Torrico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Majority Leader]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sacramento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico has signed on as a consultant with a prominent Sacramento lobbying firm. “It’s a great firm with a great reputation,” Torrico, 42, said Wednesday afternoon of Capitol Advocacy, where he’s newly “of counsel” to clients such as Apple, Chevron, American Airlines, Pepsico, Yahoo! and dozens of others. “I really [...]]]></description>
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