Last Thursday at Angel's Stadium, I ran into our esteemed Assemblyman Jose Solorio. I noticed he was collecting signatures to run for his third and final term in the Assembly. Has it been that long already that he is at his final term? WOW, time does fly. So I thought to myself, what happens...
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Tags: 69th Assembly District, Assemblyman Jose Solorio, California State Assembly, Claudia Alvarez, Claudio Gallegos, David Benavides, Santa Ana City Council, Tom Umberg, Vincent Sarmiento
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The California Teacher's Association is now opposing the Race To The Top bills currently in the Assembly. The CTA-opposed SBX5 4 (Romero) has been split into two bills, SBX5 1 and SBX5 4. The amended version of SBX5 4 contains two of the most objectionable ideas developed in this special session on education: open...
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Tags: "Race to the Top", Assembly Appropriations Committee, Assembly Education Committee, California State Assembly, California State Senate, California Teacher's Association, CTA, Gloria Romero, Julia Brownley, SB X5 4, SBX5 1, Sen. Gloria Romero
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Perez has strong labor connections in Orange County because of his work as an organizer and Political Director for UFCW 324 based in Buena Park. Perez was honored in January 2009 by the Democratic Party of Orange County with the Samuel Gompers Award.
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Tags: California State Assembly, Democratic Party of Orange County, John A. Perez, Kevin De Leon, Latino Caucus, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Orange County, Samuel Gompers Award, Speaker of the California State Assembly
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TheLiberalOC.com was disappointed late today to hear from Democrat Sharon Quirk that she is withdrawing from the special election to fill the state Assembly District #72 seat vacated when Republican Mike Duvall was forced to resign over a lurid sexual scandal.
Quirk, former Mayor and now Fullerton Councilwoman, is an education powerhouse in Orange County...
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Tags: 72nd Assembly District, California State Assembly, Democrat, Fullerton, John MacMurray, Mike Duvall, Sharon Quirk
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In a nutshell it looks like the California GOP Vice-Chair Jon Fleischman is up to his eyeballs in the “Open Mike” Duvall sex talk scandal. Back in 2007 Fleischman’s wife Maureen worked for Mike Duvall on his Assembly staff. Sources tell us she was let go for having an attitude problem. We are hearing it was something...
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Tags: 72nd Assembly District, California State Assembly, FlashReport, Jeff Miller, Jon Fleischman, Mike Duvall, Mike Schroeder, Republican Dirty Tricks, Republican mistakes, sex scandal, Sex talk
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SACRAMENTO - In this week’s Democratic weekly radio address, Assemblymembers Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills) and Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) say swift action to close California’s budget deficit also needs to include appropriate action to ensure that California doesn’t throw away eligibility for billions of dollars in federal funding or turn itself into the...
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Tags: Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, Assemblyman Kevin de León, Budget Update, CA Budget Conference Committee, California Assembly Weekly Democratic Address, California State Assembly, state budget crisis, state budget cuts
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SACRAMENTO - In this week’s Democratic address, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) sees spending cuts and new revenues as necessary components of a budget that will help California end a cash crisis that has already impacted employment and state payments to taxpayers. She calls the compromise needed to close California’s $42 billion budget deficit...
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Tags: budget crisis, California Budget, California State Assembly, John Perez, Karen Bass, Speaker Karen Bass
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