Jerry Brown officially announced his candidacy for a bid to return to the governor’s mansion via web video. Brown, the state’s current attorney general, managed to clear the field with a strong fundraising operation. The gubernatorial hopeful said in a campaign e-mail that he plans to run a ”lean campaign” with minimal staff.
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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
A recent poll shows Meg Whitman well ahead of fellow contenders for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, Whitman pulls 32 percent to Tom Campbell’s 12 percent, and Steve Poizner’s 8 percent. Jerry Brown, the presumptive Democratic nominee, leads all three Republican candidates in hypothetical head-to-head matches by six,
Swing State Project passed along the numbers from a recent Rasmussen poll in the California governor’s race that shows a tie between Jerry Brown, the Democratic attorney general and former governor, and Republican political neophyte Meg Whitman. Jerry Brown (D): 41 (44) Meg Whitman (R): 41 (35) Some other: 3 (3) Not sure: 14 (18)
Associated Press reports that both Jerry Brown, the state’s attorney general, and Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, would fare well against any of the three Republican candidates in the general election a year from next month, according to the latest Field Poll. A new Field Poll shows California Attorney General Jerry Brown with a
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