( Matt Ortega )

Spokesman for Brad Goehring’s campaign for Congress, Carl Fogliani, confused the TARP bailout with the economic stimulus. It is a scary proposition that a candidate for a Congressional seat that voted on both pieces of legislation cannot distinguish the two from each other. Any candidate for office should very well know the difference. Goehring and his team apparently don’t seem to think so, or simply don’t care

Congressional candidate David Harmer rails against the TARP bailout and the stimulus package but new developments regarding his involvement with a golden parachute from Washington Mutual/JP Morgan Chase and the bailout may sink his bid for the GOP nomination

Carly Fiorina loaned most of the money she raised. Steve Poizner says polls don’t matter. Tom McClintock to endorse Richard Pombo. Abram Wilson, running for State Assembly again, says his city ”will have to do more with less,” and more

Jerry McNerney, a second-term congressman from Pleasanton, managed to bring millions to California’s 11th Congressional District for important projects like highway funds, public transportation, and mentoring programs — all of which mean jobs for constituents

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

John Perez is the next Speaker of the Assembly and also the first openly gay official to hold the post. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered his final State of the State address this week with the help of a former Reagan speechwriter. Contra Costa Times reporter Josh Richman liveblogged the event. In the speech, the governor outlined

Meg Whitman launched the Latino coalition portion of her campaign two days ago in South El Monte and rolled out a new web video of the launch. The outreach program’s roll out was kind of a condescending caricature of the Latino community itself. Whitman’s campaign decided on a Mexican restaurant as the venue. Speedy Gonzales

Budget director for California’s governor, fiscal conservative Mike Genest trashed Steve Poizner’s gimmick 10-10-10 plan in the latest George Skelton column in the Los Angeles Times. Genest continues: “There’s no basis to believe that a tax cut now would be affordable given the budget situation the state faces. I know Rush Limbaugh is going to

George Skelton ripped Republican candidate Meg Whitman’s claim that California’s government spending increased 80 percent over the last decade. Well, no, I did not know that. So I did some checking. “They’re completely wrong when they say that,” replied state Finance Director Mike Genest, a conservative former budget consultant for Senate Republicans. It doesn’t take