( Matt Ortega )

It is the final stretch towards the June 8 primary and Meg Whitman spoke to the El Centro Chamber of Commerce. It is crunch time for the campaign but Whitman, the former eBay chief, drew a “half-empty” crowd

Meg Whitman’s lead over Steve Poizner in the GOP gubernatorial primary collapsed from 22 points to just two percent in less than three weeks. To date, Whitman spent nearly $60 million of her own personal wealth on the race. With the primary less than a month away, Whitman could experience one of the worst political collapses in the modern era

Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign called together the media for to cover her face-to-face meeting with Union Pacific Railroad, a big-time corporate donor to her gubernatorial campaign. The assembled press attempted to ask questions at the end of the media but rebuked by the Whitman campaign, even forcing out the press in the most politically damaging way possible. The video from CBS’ local coverage is worth the watch

More bad press for Carly Fiorina’s “demon sheep” web video. Tom Campbell denies making any deals to leave the gubernatorial race with Meg Whitman. Fiorina suggests bankruptcy be on the table as a solution for the state’s financial problems. The American Spectator attacked Campbell as “anti-Israel.” Fiorina offers healthcare reforms implemented fifteen years ago

The gubernatorial campaign of Meg Whitman paid $20,000 for advertising on the conservative blog, Red County, that another advertiser only paid $300 for the same ad space. Chip Hanlon, proprietor of the blog, recently fired a blogger found to receive payments from Whitman rival, Steve Poizner

A campaign consultant, working on behalf of Meg Whitman, threatened to spend “$40 million-plus” to tear down Steve Poizner and offered to clear the Republican field for U.S. Senate in 2012 if the state’s insurance commissioner dropped out of the governor’s race.

The explosive allegations, if corroborated, threaten to upend Whitman’s campaign for governor

Earlier this week, Santa Clarita City Councilman Bob Kellar pronounced himself a “proud racist” at a January 16th anti-immigration rally.

Kellar, a supporter of Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor, may cause problems for the political novice

Henry Gomez is a top staffer to Republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman. He staffed her during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota that nominated John McCain as the party’s standard-bearer.

It turns out that Gomez donated the maximum — $2,300 — to Barack Obama’s campaign

Tom Campbell will drop his gubernatorial bid and wade into the establishment-tea party primary fight between Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore for the party’s Senatorial campaign. Campbell has scheduled two news conferences to make the announcement: one at 9 a.m. in Los Angeles, the other at 2:30 p.m. at the San Jose Fairmont hotel, according

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