California Democratic Party

California Primary Ballot Hodgepodge: We Need a Return to Voting By Party Members Only

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.14.2012

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Michael Russnow

Wasn't the purpose of political primaries to take the process out of the hands of big city bosses and to allow the citizenry of each state to choose their nominees?

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California Democrats Facing Huge Challenges After Scandal

AP | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Embezzlement, Fraud, Orange County Young Democrats, Video, Campaign Fundraising, Kinde Durkee, California Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, Fundraising, California Democrats, Small Business Video, Politics News

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Democratic politicians in California are facing huge challenges as they work to rebuild d...

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Kinde Durkee Clients Could Struggle To Replace Stolen Funds

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Fraud, Embezzlement, California, Durkee & Associates, Susan Davis, Kinde Durkee, Campaign Contributions, California Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, 112th Congress, Loretta Sanchez, Jose Solorio, Durkee & Associates Scandal, Politics News

Clients of Kinde Durkee, the Democratic campaign treasurer who was arrested by the FBI on allegations of fraud, may struggle to replace the money they...

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Dianne Feinstein On Kinde Durkee Scandal: 'I Was Wiped Out Too'

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2011

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said her campaign funds were "wiped out" by Kinde Durkee, a longtime Democratic campaign treasurer who was arrested b...

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Rep. Susan Davis: 'We've Been Robbed', Staffer The 'Bernie Madoff Of Campaign Finance Treasurers'

Posted 11.13.2011

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SAN DIEGO (AP/The Huffington Post) -- A Southern California congresswoman told supporters, "We've Been Robbed" as she detailed the losses she said her...

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Democratic Congresswoman: Fraudster Staffer Stole My Campaign Funds

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Embezzlement, Politics News, California, Campaign Fundraising, Kinde Durkee, California Democratic Party, 112th Congress, Loretta Sanchez, Fundraising, Democrats, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, California Democrats, Jose Solorio, Politics News

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) discovered her campaign funds were wiped out after her treasurer, Kinde Durkee, was arrested on suspicion of mail frau...

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California Democrats: An Uncertain Trumpet

William Bradley | Posted 07.02.2011

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William Bradley

California Democrats gathered this past weekend in Sacramento for their annual party convention were in a rather curious mood. They've gotten what they wanted. But they have mixed feelings about what they've ended up with.

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Ich Bin Ein Angeleno

Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ich Bin Ein Berliner, California Democratic Party, Jerry Brown, Brad Sherman, Debra Bowen, California, Midterm Election, California Politics, Los Angeles, California Election, Los Angeles News
Edward Headington

There is no lack of enthusiasm with Democrats in Van Nuys, the San Fernando Valley, the whole of Los Angeles and the rest of California.

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Why Karl Rove Wants to Buy the Race for California Attorney General

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, California, Midterm Elections, Kamala Harris, Attorney General, California Democratic Party, Citizens United, Democrats, Ed Gillespie, Republican Party, Republicans, Bush Administration, Republican State Leadership Committee, Politics News
Zach Friend

It looks like Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie are trying to resurrect the long game Rove boasted about when he steered George W. Bush to power: the promised decades of Republican dominance.

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I Want Choice

Joan Blades | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Governor Primary, Meg Whitman, California Governor's Race, California Democratic Primary, California Democratic Party, Los Angeles News
Joan Blades

I've heard from Meg Whitman on the radio again and again these last few months. Dead air from the Democrats. Wouldn't a vibrant primary be fabulous!

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Posse Up, California Democrats

Bobby Shriver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, California Budget Crisis, Democrats, California State Budget, California Democratic Party, Jerry Brown, Los Angeles News
Bobby Shriver

California's real problem is the system we all have built: the initiative process and its consultants, the lobbying culture that profits from inexperienced legislators with term limits, minority rule of the budget, and so on.

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California Governor's Race: Why Moonbeam Will Win

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Meg Whitman, California, California Democratic Party, Jerry Brown, Gray Davis, Sacramento, Democrats, California Governor's Race, Politics News
Zach Friend

While Whitman has shown a penchant for the finer things, Brown has flown Southwest airlines and lived in a small apartment while serving as governor. Brown would do well listening to his former self.

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S.F. Democratic Races Show Need for Reform

Paul Hogarth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Hogarth

Candidates for the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) have reported fundraising numbers for the period ending March 17th - and t...

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Democrats' Obama Bounce In California Disappearing

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG and KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, California Politics, California Economy, California Democratic Party, Los Angeles News

CERES, Calif. — Kent Hancock can't remember tougher economic times in the two decades he's sold used cars in California's Central Valley. He br...

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Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air War, President Obama, Karen Bernal, Escalation, Jane Harman, California Democratic Party, Afghanistan, Democratic Party, Marcy Winograd, Withdrawal, Rick Reyes, Politics News
Norman Solomon

While Obama weighs Afghanistan policy options, the California Democratic Party's adoption of the resolution is the most tangible indicator yet that escalation of the U.S. war effort can only fuel opposition within the president's own party.

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I Agree With George Will

John Burton | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Burton

California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton announces his organization's desire for a speedy American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Gavin Newsom's Impressive Town Hall in Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Mayor Newsom is the most exciting thing to happen to California politics in years. He promises to lift California out of the morass that the deadening hands of the GOP have submerged us in.

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California Democrats: "Spreading the Pain" from Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget Crisis, California, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, State Budget Crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, President Barack Obama, California Democratic Party, Democratic Leaders, State Government of California, California Democrats, California Legislature, California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, California State Budget Crisis, Arnold, California Budget Deficit, California Budget Cuts, Sacramento, Schwarzenegger, Local Politics, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

When his term mercifully expires next year, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be leaving the Golden State in the worst condition than at any time its history.

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California's Death Throes: A View From Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

A grassroots movement working within Democratic Party structures might break the cycle of abuse the Republican minority has inflicted upon the state.

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Commemorating 15 Years Since the Death of a Political Legend

Aaron Keyak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bay Area Democrats, Contra Costa, California, Martin Luther King, California Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, Bert Coffey, Huac, Democrats, George Miller, Bay Area, Politics News
Aaron Keyak

Even when it was not politically popular, Bert Coffey held fast to his ideal of a society in which equal opportunity truly existed.

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Take A Look: Democratic and Republican Party Headquarters Nationwide (SLIDESHOW)

Amanda Michel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amanda Michel

Starting last week OffTheBus's Special Ops members set out on their first assignment assignment to check out what was going on at local and state party headquarters across the country. In this slide show you'll see what a handful of what our team of citizen-reporters found (and didn't find) when they hit the ground.

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Obama's "Big Tent" Campaign Cuts Out The Little People In California

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Bach

I was excitedly telling everyone that I was running to be an Obama delegate from California to the Democratic National Convention, until the campaign cut me and 900 others from the list last night.

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Max Follmer

Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the pr...

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Max Follmer

Dems Set To Kill Feinstein Censure Resolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the state's Democratic Party pushed back Wednesday against a proposal by a coalition of progressives to censure t...

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