Steve Cooley

Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Another Anti-Medical Marijuana Candidate Bites the Dust

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, Medical Cannabis, Pot, Marijuana, Steve Cooley, Drug Enforcement Administration, Dwight Holton, War on Drugs, Obama Marijuana, Politics News

Politicians come and go. But public compassion for suffering patients is here to stay.

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Kamala Harris Takes Slim Lead In Attorney General's Race

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Attorney General's Race, Steve Cooley, California Attorney General Race, California Ag Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris took the slenderest of leads in the race for California attorney general late Friday, moving ahead by 303 vote...

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Cooley And Harris Clash In Atty. General Debate

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Attorney General Debate, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General Debate, Los Angeles News

Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley exchanged harsh words in a spirited first debate Tuesday, the only scheduled face-off between the two major-party candi...

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Kamala Harris Wins Attorney General Race, Cooley Concedes

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Steve Cooley Concedes, Kamala Harris Attorney General, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris Wins, Los Angeles News

Republican Steve Cooley has conceded the race for California Attorney General to Kamala Harris, according to reports from KNX 1070 and ABC Los Angeles...

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Kamala Harris and Reality Win Attorney General Race

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Karl Rove, California, Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, Republican Party, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

Overcoming the opposing campaign's best efforts to game the vote count, plus a million dollar attack by Karl Rove, Harris is slated to become the first African-American and first female Attorney General in California.

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As Predicted: Republican Dirty Tricks in the California Attorney General Race

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Karl Rove, California, Kamala Harris, 2010 Elections, California Attorney General, Elections 2010, Democratic Party, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

Ben Franklin said that nothing is certain except death and taxes -- but then Ben lived before there was a Republican Party to make the political dirty trick every bit as predictable.

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GOP Pleads: 'More bodies' for Cooley-Harris Count

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, California Attorney General Race, California Attorney General Race Results, California Ag Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

UPDATE: The LA Weekly reports on the increasingly contentious ballot counting process: The Harris campaign complained on Sunday that the Cooley monito...

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Cooley, Harris Still Fundraising As Ballots Are Counted

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Ryan Gabrielson The race for California attorney general continues in full even as Election Day fa...

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Cooley Pulls Ahead Of Harris In California AG Race

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, California Attorney General Race, California Ag Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

The latest numbers released from the California Secretary of State in the too close to call California Attorney General's race find Republican Steve C...

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Prepare for Republican Dirty Tricks in the California Attorney General Squeaker

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, California, Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris for Attorney General, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

As we watch the final vote count in the oh-so-close District Attorney race between Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris, watch for a California replay of Bush-Gore 2000.

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Kamala Harris-Steve Cooley Race Undecided: 2 Million Uncounted Ballots

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General Race, California Ag Race, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Ryan Gabrielson Nearly two million ballots remain uncounted at county offices across Californi...

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Wave of Voter Anger Leaves Damage, Opportunities

Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Anti-Islamic Sentiment, Russ Feingold, Populism, Minnesota, Prop 8, New York State, John Boehner, 2010 Elections, Michael Bennet, Sharia Law, Religious Pluralism, Andy Pugno, Barbara Boxer, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antigay Initiatives, Oklahoma, Iowa Senate Election 2010 Iowa Senate Election, Arizona Immigration Law, Betsy Butler, Iowa Supreme Court, Oregon, Anti-Immigrant, El Paso, Patty Murray, Kamala Harris, Domestic Partnerships, Judicial Elections, Ohio, Money in Politics, Washington State, Citizens United, Marriage Equality, Labor, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, LGBT Rights, Voter ID Laws, Harry Reid, Hawaii, Florida, Bowling Green, Patrick Murphy, Politics News

It is often the least of these who have the most at stake in elections. Nov. 2, 2010, was a night of reckoning for advocates of working people, immigr...

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Medical Marijuana Advocates and Others Unite to Oppose Steve Cooley as California Attorney General

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Marijuana, Steve Cooley, Proposition 8, Not Cooley, Prop 8 Cooley, Marijuana, 2010 Elections, California Attorney General, Elections 2010, Americans for Safe Access, Steve Cooley California, Los Angeles News

The most important race for medical marijuana patients in California on November 2nd is for the State Attorney General's office.

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This November, You Can Make History for Marriage Equality

Geoff Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Meg Whitman, Prop 8, Powerpac, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Kamala Harris, 2010 Elections, Jerry Brown, Geoff Kors, Marriage Equality, Federal Lawsuit, Elections 2010, Video, Politics News

If you live in California, you can change the course of history of marriage equality coast-to-coast this November. That's because every election matters, but this one is monumental.

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Attorney General Race Heats Up: Cooley Accused Of Corruption

Los Angeles Times | Phil Willon and Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Los-Angeles-District-Attorney, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the San Francisco district attorney, on Thursday amped up her attacks on the environmental record of GOP rival Steve...

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What Every Woman Needs to Know About the Office of State Attorney General

Christine Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Elections, Steve Cooley, District Attorney, L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris, Pro-Choice, 2010 Elections, Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Attorney General, 2010 Midterm Elections, Bill O'Reilly, Phil Kline, Naral, Elections 2010, Politics News

Until recently I had no idea how much control the Attorney General has over my uterus. As Attorney General, Kamala Harris will make choice a priority in her administration.

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LA's Librarians Demand Noise

Jodi Lampert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, LA City Council, Books, Los Angeles Library, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Grammy Awards, Los Angeles News

For something to reach out and grab me, it has to have the effect of Changing My Life, and right away. Just say: The Public Library is closing on Mondays.

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Defending Prop 8: The Meg Whitman, Steve Cooley Morass -- With Insight from Lambda Legal's Jon Davidson

Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jon Davidson, Shannon Minter, Steve Cooley, Meg Whitman, Ted Olson, Prop 8, Lambda Legal, Judge Vaughn Walker, Equality California, David Boies, Los Angeles News

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and attorney general candidate Steve Cooley recently said that they would defend Prop 8 in a federal trial, if elected and given the opportunity.

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Will California's Next Governor and Attorney General Stand Strong Against Prop. 8?

Geoff Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Meg Whitman, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Perry v Schwarzenegger, LGBT Rights, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

This November, we must do everything we can to elect only those candidates who are 100 percent in support of LGBT equality -- from voting to donating to getting involved in campaigns.

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L.A. D.A. Fried by Hit Video

Don Ringe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, California Attorney General, Eric Garcetti, American Diabetes Association, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles County District Attorney and candidate for California Attorney General was roasted with this Don Ringe video at the annual American Dia...

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Polanski Lawyer Says Client Will Face Only One Charge if He Returns to LA

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, Statutory Rape, Rape, Samantha Geimer, Polanski Case, Polanski, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News

Just because a lot of pathetic people need to dwell on the director's supposed indecency to make themselves feel decent in comparison, doesn't mean that normal evidentiary standards should be abandoned in the Polanski matter.

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