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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; California State Senate</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anna Eshoo]]></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>Supreme Court to rule Friday on redistricting suit</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/supreme-court-to-rule-friday-on-redistricting-suit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/supreme-court-to-rule-friday-on-redistricting-suit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debra Bowen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court will issue its written opinion at 10 a.m. tomorrow on a challenge to last year’s state Senate redistricting, it announced minutes ago. That challenge, filed in early December, asks the court to decide whether the old or new state Senate district map should be used for this year’s elections if a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corbett lauds Indo-Americans &#8211; but why?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/corbett-lauds-indo-americans-but-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/corbett-lauds-indo-americans-but-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Corbett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett issued a news release this morning saying she celebrated India&#8217;s Republic Day today by honoring several prominent Indian Americans from her district in a special ceremony on the Senate floor. “On this important day, we pay tribute to India’s independence, its constitution and its thriving democracy, and we remember [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandre Swanson]]></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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Woolsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pre-endorsement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]></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>Senate adjourns in honor of Richmond&#8217;s Livingston</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/09/senate-adjourns-in-honor-of-richmonds-livingston/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/09/senate-adjourns-in-honor-of-richmonds-livingston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Livingstone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California State Senate adjourned today in memory of George Livingston, the first elected African-American mayor of Richmond, who died Saturday. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, introduced the motion to adjourn in his honor, and said this on the floor: “I rise today to ask the Senate to adjourn in memory of George Livingston, former [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Cox]]></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>New law cracks down on &#8216;robotripping&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/20/new-law-cracks-down-on-robotripping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Simitian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California on New Year’s Day becomes the first state to bar the sale of over-the-counter cold and cough medications containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to minors. Senate Bill 514 by state Senator Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, requires store clerks to check ID so no one under 18 buys these medications, which cause a potentially life-threatening high when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about Jerry Brown&#8217;s tax plan</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/05/what-theyre-saying-about-jerry-browns-tax-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/05/what-theyre-saying-about-jerry-browns-tax-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dutton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connie Conway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darrell Steinberg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown today issued an open letter to Californians announcing, as expected, that he’s filing a proposed ballot measure to hike income taxes on those making more than $500,000 a year and temporarily boost the state sales tax by half a cent to prevent devastating budget cuts in education and public safety. From state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeSaulnier seeks criminal probe of Caltrans</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/29/desaulnier-seeks-criminal-probe-of-caltrans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/29/desaulnier-seeks-criminal-probe-of-caltrans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark DeSaulnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An East Bay lawmaker asked Attorney General Kamala Harris today to open an criminal investigation into accusations of falsified inspections of the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge now under construction. State Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Chairman Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, wants Harris to probe Caltrans’ Foundation Inspection Branch, which was the targeted [...]]]></description>
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