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Mike Murphy

Richardson-Connected Judge Facing Consequences

AP | JERI CLAUSING | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Court documents indicate a deal has been reached to reduce the charges against a retired Las Cruces judge accused of funneli...

Jon Ward

Jeb Bush Didn't Show His Book To Political Advisers Before Its Release

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A long-time adviser to Jeb Bush said Saturday that the former Florida governor did not show his recently released book on immigration to...

The Blink in the California Governor's Race

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michelle Kraus

Until this week, it appeared that the GOP had successfully rolled out their new product -- a conservative, ambitious businesswoman with a big check book.

Expendable Arnold: What's Ahead for Schwarzenegger?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

It seems clear that movies are in Schwarzenegger's future. But there's plenty of politics to come before he's done being governor next January, and plenty after as well.

Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

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Whitman's Investment In Top Adviser Draws Scrutiny

nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

At first blush, the 19 pages of financial disclosures that Meg Whitman filed earlier this year for her run for governor of California are a humdrum bl...

The Machinations of Meg Whitman: Murphy's Million (Plus) and More

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

Whitman is a candidate who, let's be frank, can't get her story straight. Worse than that, she insists that her story is straight, against all evidence, clearly believing that she can buy her way through paid advertising.

California Story: Brown, Boxer, and (Un)convention(al) Politics

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

Big developments in the past few days make it clear why California has the biggest races in the country this year, with Obama helping Barbara Boxer defend her Senate seat and Jerry Brown trying for a record third term as governor.

10 Key Things To Know About The High-Stakes California Governor's Race

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

The hand-picked candidate of Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, billionaire Meg Whitman, is already shattering all spending records in her bid to win the governorship.

Meg Whitman's Whoppers

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

As someone with no experience in public affairs prior to being talked into running for governor by her business mentor, Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman is totally dependent on a coterie of lobbyists and consultants.

The Mitt & Meg Show: "Taking Care of Business"

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

Billionaire Meg Whitman, the seeming political cipher who would be governor of California, is purchasing endless amounts of unanswered advertising.

Meg Whitman's Wild Week That Was

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

Is billionaire Meg Whitman having fun yet? She's certainly had a careening week in her once seeing juggernaut of a bid to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California.

Meg Whitman's New! Improved! Post-Journalism! Politics

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
William Bradley

Something new and more than a little bizarre is busy being born in California, where billionaire Meg Whitman has been spending feverishly for months on an advertising blitz.

The California as First "Failed State" Debate: Schwarzenegger, Davis, Whitman, and Jerry Brown

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

Is California America's first "failed state?" I asked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; the governor he replaced, Gray Davis; and a famous former governor favored to be the next governor, Jerry Brown.

The Biggest Spending Race In America Is Underway! (Well, Sort Of)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

With billionaire Meg Whitman spending like a Russian oligarch, it's inevitable that the race for California governor will be the most expensive in the country.

As Goes California...

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

The nation is catching up to California. The contempt directed at Sacramento politicians is already bleeding over on every other politician in the state.

The Machinations of Meg Whitman: Behind Her Attempts To Eliminate Competition and Her Whopper About How Long She's Lived in California

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

The reality behind Meg Whitman, as we see from her attempts to avoid a primary contest and duck debates and the press, is much different than her facade.

Selling Meg Whitman: Glitches Emerge in the Billionaire's Plan To Acquire the California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

The billionaire ex-eBay CEO has assiduously promoted herself as a potential governor of of the nation's largest state. All is "on plan" in the selling of Meg Whitman. Or is it?

Scott Brown Need Not Apply: California Republicans in the Post-Arnold Era

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
William Bradley

The principal fight in the California Republican primaries for governor and U.S. senator will be over who is more conservative than the next candidate.

"If Sarah Palin Looked Like Golda"

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gershon Hepner

Poem inspired by an observation made by Mike Murphy, a former John McCain strategist

It Would Behoove the Republican Party to Immediately Stop Pissing Off Latinos

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Pablo Manriquez

However it's fed to the media, what Democrats see in comprehensive immigration reform is 12 million potential votes. Unless Republicans prefer losing elections, they should stand with Obama on immigration reform.

Chuck Todd, Mike Murphy Discuss GOP's 'Circular Firing Squad' Over Sarah Palin (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The sniping between McCain staffers and Palin defenders has only gotten worse since Todd Purdum's lengthy Vanity Fair article slamming Sarah Palin cam...

Sam Stein

Gregory Accidentally Accuses Jon Huntsman Of Having An Affair, Effusively Apologizes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Republican Party is in such a state of disrepair and scandal that television news hosts can't keep track of which prominent figures are dealing wi...

This Week in Magazines: Bernie, Blago and Betrayal

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
James Warren

This may be a golden era of betrayal. Bernie Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Alex Rodriguez and Mel Gibson are among the liars and cheats who've hurt their biggest fans and chums the most.

The Ice Age Is Coming

TIME | Mike Murphy Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback. My answe...