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		<title>Good-government activist to run for sec&#8217;y of state</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/18/good-government-activist-to-run-for-secy-of-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2014 primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of State]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[derek cressman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A veteran good-government activist declared his candidacy for California secretary of state today in Sacramento. Derek Cressman, a Democrat, said he’s seeking the office “to make elections count for Californians. “We need real leadership to limit the role corporations and big-moneyed special interests play in our elections.” Cressman, 45, of Sacramento, has worked for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Leno responds to Public Records Act hubbub</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/18/mark-leno-responds-to-public-records-act-hubbub/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/18/mark-leno-responds-to-public-records-act-hubbub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Leno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trailer bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The story that Tom Peele and I wrote late Friday afternoon about a budget trailer bill essentially letting local governments opt out of their obligations under the Public Records Act – which many say guts the law – drew a lot of righteous outrage over the weekend. The general policy initially had been suggested by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lee goes on SNAP diet, will screen hunger film</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/14/lee-goes-on-snap-diet-will-screen-hunger-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/14/lee-goes-on-snap-diet-will-screen-hunger-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Huffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#SNAPchallenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Place at the Table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda County Community Food Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda County Social Services Agency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Food and Justice Coalition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lori Silverbush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakland Museum of California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNAP Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With more than $20 billion in cuts proposed to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – formerly known as Food Stamps – in the 2014 Farm Bill, Rep. Barbara Lee is leading two dozen House members in a “SNAP Challenge,” living on the $4.50 per day food budget of an average SNAP recipient. Lee, D-Oakland, issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swalwell touts win in Congressional baseball game</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/14/swalwell-touts-win-in-congressional-baseball-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/14/swalwell-touts-win-in-congressional-baseball-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Huffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Baseball Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dublin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleasanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Rafael]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shutout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennyson High]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being among the youngest rookie members of Congress does have at least a few advantages. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Pleasanton, is proudly touting his role in helping Democrats defeat Republicans last night in the annual Congressional baseball game, a charity event that dates back to 1909. The game at Nationals Park was a 22-0 shutout, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>House Dems urge vote on background checks</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/13/house-dems-urge-vote-on-background-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/13/house-dems-urge-vote-on-background-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newtown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Hook]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Democrats took to the House floor today to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn., and to try to jump-start the seemingly moribund effort to get a background-check bill through Congress. The Senate rejected the bill in April, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, doesn’t seem likely to bring it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Yoo weighs in on NSA/PRISM leak</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/12/john-yoo-weighs-in-on-nsaprism-leak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/12/john-yoo-weighs-in-on-nsaprism-leak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free press]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley&#8217;s John Yoo, the Cal law professor who previously was the George W. Bush administration’s architect of legal policies supporting the war on terror and “enhanced interrogation techniques,” wrote a piece in the National Review urging the prosecution of NSA/PRISM leaker Edward Snowden – and perhaps some other folks, too: Recall that the Obama Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Report: Redistricting panel did well, can do better</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/12/report-redistricting-panel-did-well-can-do-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/12/report-redistricting-panel-did-well-can-do-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cal State Los Angeles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citizens Redistricting Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commissioners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raphael Sonenshein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=23423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The California Citizens Redistricting Commission generally succeeded in its task of drawing fair new legislative lines, according to a new review of its work – but the state can do even better in the future. The report, “When the People Draw the Lines,” by Cal State Los Angeles researcher Raphael Sonenshein, was commissioned by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Patron saint of whistleblowers to talk in Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/11/patron-saint-of-whistleblowers-to-talk-in-berkeley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/11/patron-saint-of-whistleblowers-to-talk-in-berkeley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil liberties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Ellsberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norman Solomon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most famed whistleblower in U.S. history will take part in a panel discussion tonight in Berkeley about new revelations of government surveillance. Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the “Pentagon Papers” exposing U.S. policy on the Vietnam war, will participate in the panel at 7:30 p.m. tonight in St. John’s Church, 2727 College [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video game makers urged to shun gun industry</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/11/video-game-makers-urged-to-shun-gun-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/11/video-game-makers-urged-to-shun-gun-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, soon after December’s Newtown school massacre, had said some blame should be put upon a video-game industry that glorifies murder, “a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows violence against its own people.” But what about firearms in video games? As the video-game industry [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ellen Corbett introduces limousine-safety bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/10/ellen-corbett-introduces-limousine-safety-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/06/10/ellen-corbett-introduces-limousine-safety-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Corbett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two Bay Area limousine fires in less more than a month, California State Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett is pushing for new safety measures. SB 109 by Corbett, D-San Leandro, would require two exit doors in the rear portion of a limousine, and at least two windows that can be pushed out in the [...]]]></description>
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