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Republican Millionaire Rick Caruso Backs Democrat Jerry Brown for CA Governor

Tina Daunt | Posted 01.05.2010 | Los Angeles

Read More: Bill Bratton, Oakland, Jerry Brown, Brentwood, California Republican Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010 California Governor, Lapd, Meg Whitman Governor, Los Angeles News

Millionaire mall developer Rick Caruso, a longtime Republican fundraiser and pal of Arnold Schwarzenegger, said in an interview with the Huffington Po...

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Poll: Jerry Brown Still Leads In California Governor's Race

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 12.17.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Attorney General Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Meg Whitman Governor, California Governor's Race, Jerry Brown, California Governor, Los Angeles News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrat Jerry Brown may still be the presumed front-runner in next year's California governor's race, but a new poll indic...

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Copenhagen Blues: Obama's Weak Hand on Climate, and the California Option

William Bradley | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.

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California Candidates Aim To Tap Anti-Sacramento Anger

Sacramento Bee | Jack Chang | Posted 12.14.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Meg Whitman, Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California State Assembly, California State Government, Jerry Brown, Los Angeles News

With a record low number of Californians 13 percent giving the Legislature their approval in the latest Field Poll, next year's elections promise to ...

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Of Bricks And Boomerangs: Social Worker's Tuitions And California's Prisons

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, California, Ucb, Children, UC Regents, Prison, Ucla, Jerry Brown, Daniel Heimpel, Karen Bass, Foster Care, Economy, The Giving Life, Living News

To save money the UC System was about to raise undergraduate tuition by 32 percent, in addition to hiking fees for professional degrees.

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Hollywood A-Listers Host Bash For Jerry Brown

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.17.2009 | Los Angeles

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State Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, now alone in the Democratic field in his still-unannounced bid for governor, is headed this week to Hollywood, where he'...

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Secrets of Secret Jerry Brown Tapes Revealed

Phil Trounstine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Telephone Recording, California Governor's Race, Jerry Brown, Politics News

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has a fabulous career ahead of him as a public relations consultant or media critic, if this whole governor thing doesn't work out.

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Let's List Governor of California On eBay

Terry Gardner | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meg Whitman, Warren Buffett Berkshire, Ebay, Governor of California, California, Jerry Brown, Politics News

For months (if not years) we've been reading that the State of California is broke. Here are two possible solutions.

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Jerry Brown Aide Showed Bad Judgment, But Didn't Break Law in Secretly Taping Reporter

Peter Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Recording Journalist, Governor California, Jerry Brown, First Amendment, Ethics in Journalism, Media News

Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been grossly overblown.

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Timing For Newsom in Governor Race, All Wrong

Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, California, Gavin Newsom, San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.

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Is CNBC Pimping for State Street Bank?

Jerry Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorney General Jerry Brown, State Street Bank and Trust, California, Wall Street, Calpers, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Cnbc, Jerry Brown, State Street Bank, Calstrs, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, Eliot Spitzer, Business News

In my book, there's nothing 'quaint' about corporate fraud or ripping off pension funds. So, I'll continue to bring the high-priced rip-off artists like State Street Bank to justice, regardless of CNBC sneers.

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Jerry Brown, California AG, Squabbles With CNBC (VIDEO)

Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Cnbc, State Street Bank and Trust, California Attorney General, California, Jerry Brown, Business News

Yesterday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced an enormous, $200 million lawsuit against Boston-based State Street Bank. But, when Brown...

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State Street Sued: Jerry Brown, California AG, Sues Bank For "Unconscionable Fraud"

Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: State Street Bank and Trust, Foreign Exchange Trading, Calpers, State Street, Jerry Brown, Calstrs, Business News

Citing "unconscionable fraud," California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a major lawsuit today against State Street Bank and Trust. Brown seek...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and That Crazy California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Emerson, Bill Clinton, Steve Westly, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Tom Campbell, Antonio Villaraigosa, Pat Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Meg Whitman, 1992 Presidential Race, Gavin Newsom, Warren Beatty, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Hillary Clinton, Tom McClintock, Bill Lockyer, Tonight Show, Biltmore Hotel, Century Plaza Hotel, Don Sipple, 2003 California Recall, Dot-Com Boom, Field Poll, John Garamendi, Enron, Pete Wilson, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Politics News

California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.

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Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

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Will California Become America's First Failed State?

The Observer | Paul Harris | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Outlook, California Bailout, Finances, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, State of California, Bailout, Budget, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Meg Whitman, Unemployment, Foreclosure Rate, Foreclosure, Jerry Brown, State Workers, Budget Deficit, Poverty, Economy, Business News

California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and...

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Spielberg, Katzenberg And Geffen To Endorse Jerry Brown

Wilshire and Washington | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dreamworks, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Brown, Politics News

DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are endorsing Jerry Brown's gubernatorial bid and will be co-hosting a fundr...

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Jerry Brown Governor's Run: California Attorney General Files Exploratory Papers

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Attorney General Jerry Brown has taken the first step toward running for governor, filing official paperwork with the Secretary o...

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Let Corporations Be (Just) Corporations

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Meg Whitman, John McCain, Campaign Finance Reform, Carly Fiorina, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Corporations are dictatorships, with everyone reporting to the CEO. Governments are vast cooperative bodies with legislatures, courts and other institutions without which executives can't get much done.

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California's Own Bernie Madoff

Jerry Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: California AG, Chais Victims, California, Investment, Madoff, Attorney General, Jerry Brown, Deregulation, Ponzi Scheme, Regulation, Bernard Madoff, Stanley Chais, Investor, Los Angeles, Chais Scheme, Business News

Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.

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California Attorney General Brown To Launch Investigation Into Rating Agencies' Role In Fueling The Financial Crisis

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorney General Jerry Brown, Credit Ratings, California, Economics, Jerry Brown, Economic Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Financial Crisis, U.S. Economic Crisis, Wallstreet, Wall-Street, Business News

California AG Jerry Brown joins the ranks of Attorneys General to scrutinize the disastrous role the credit rating agencies played in the financial cr...

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When Should Gay Marriage Advocates Try to Reverse California's Prop 8?

William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Josh Brolin, Dan White, Proposition 8, Milk, Ohio, George W. Bush, American Association of Political Consultants, Jill Darling, Dianne Feinstein, Equality California, Gale Kaufman, Sean Penn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Amy Simon, Frank Schubert, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, 2012, Gavin Newsom, 2010, Bulworth, 2008, John Kerry, California Supreme Court, Jerry Brown, Mark Baldassare, Bruno, Courage Campaign, David Binder, Gay Marriage, Mark Di Camillo, Politics News

This week, a few organizations championing same-sex marriage will announce their opinions as to whether to try to reverse Prop 8 in 2010 or 2012.

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California Tenants Have No Friends in Governor's Race

Paul Hogarth | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tenants Rights, Rent Control, Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor's Race, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Last Friday at 5:00 p.m. (which he's apt to do when releasing bad news), San Francisco Mayor Newsom vetoed three pro-tenant ordinances designed to help renters facing hard times.

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Brown Leads Newsom in CA Gov Race

Phil Trounstine | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gavin Newsom, California Governor's Race, Jerry Brown, Politics News

The latest survey finds Jerry Brown leading Gavin Newsom in a two-way race for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor 46-to-26 percent.

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Authorities Pose No Obstacle to Shady AIDS Charity

ProPublica | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Center for AIDS Prevention, Illinois Attorney General, Fundraising, Aids, Tiger Woods, Jerry Brown, Herbal Remedies, Living News

The case is a window into the fractured and often ineffective oversight of nonprofits.

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