( Matt Ortega )

The political action committee for Hewlett Packard donated the $10,000 maximum to Barbara Boxer’s re-election campaign. The chaser: HP’s PAC didn’t donate a single dime to Fiorina. It is a stunning (second) rejection of Fiorina’s leadership

Californians receive more for their tax dollars for the first time in more than 20 years. In his State of the State address delivered last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed the state received less per tax dollar spent and proceeded to demand the federal government fill the state’s $6.9 billion budget deficit. Commissioned by Democratic Sen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget plan would strip cities and counties of cash. Darrell Steinberg, top Democrat in the State Senate, uttered, “You’ve got to be kidding” in response to the plan. Cuts to welfare support would be added pain to the state’s poor. Meanwhile, the Governor’s idea to get the federal government to fill-in the $6.9

Headlines that have accumulated over the last couple of weeks in various California races. CA-Senate Afghanistan: Chuck DeVore opposes the President’s plan while Carly Fiorina supports the decision. [San Francisco Chronicle] Fiorina is “still making rookie mistakes.” [Fox & Hounds] Last week, for example, she brushed off Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, her GOP primary opponent,

SurveyUSA released a new poll sponsored by four major media outlets in the state — local ABC-affiliates KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KFSN-TV in Fresno, KGTV-TV in San Diego, and CBS-affiliate KPIX-TV San Francisco — that surveys the favorable and unfavorable figures for Barbara Boxer and her two potential Republican opponents, Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore.

Hotline posted third quarter fundraising numbers released by the FEC. California’s two declared candidates listed below: – 3rdQ 3rdQ – Total Oper. Cash – Receipts Exp. PACs Debt On-Hand ———————————————————— California BOXER (D) 1,645,191 688,696 176,586 0 6,351,426 DeVore (R) 382,680 309,673 10,300 88,314 144,733 ———————————————————— Boxer’s pulled in over $1.6 million with $6.3 million

Chuck DeVore, a potential Republican opponent to Barbara Boxer next year, launched a new web video that smacks of a thinly-veiled sexist portrayal of the Democratic incumbent as “a bitch” in the vein conservatives have done for the last couple of decades to Hillary Clinton. Read the description of the video the DeVore campaign launched:

Thursday provided plenty of good news for Barbara Boxer’s re-election chances next year. Boxer will report fundraising numbers her campaign says outpaces their numbers six years ago and a new poll shows her ten points ahead of her two potential Republican opponents. Garofoli writes on the numbers: Sen. Barbara Boxer will report $6.3 million cash

Sources say that Sherrod Brown and Jay Rockefeller, frustrated by the leadership of Harry Reid on the public option, are circulating a letter among their Senate colleagues calling on him to step up and commit to the public option. The letter, addressed to Reid, is floating around Capitol Hill and gathering signatures. It requests that

Carly Fiorina, disgraced former Hewlett Packard CEO and nixed McCain economic adviser, launched her Senate exploratory committee website. “It’s cats versus dogs. It’s Carly versus Boxer.” Surprisingly, Carly Fiorina left off a few others. Such as: “Illegally selling HP products to Iran versus not illegally selling HP products to Iran.” Or perhaps, “Driving a top