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* Much ado about gifts in Los Angeles. DA Steve Cooley is investigating Mayor Villaraigosa and the state is going to change the rules<\/a>, but meanwhile Cooley himself is accepting a slew of gifts<\/a> from “close personal friends.” Friends that, generally, have some connection to the County of LA. Funny that. (Note: Brian works for the Kamala Harris campaign.)<\/p>\n * Meg Whitman sent out a mailer with a cheap (and factually wrong) attack<\/a> against Jerry Brown. Trying to tie him to Bell, Whitman played fun with numbers. The result was, funny enough, some very dark mail. The truth tells a different story. Brown presided over a city that was better on the day that he left office than when he entered. Meanwhile, Jerry Brown investigated the actual City of Bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n * San Bernardino County is going to face some voting rights act troubles<\/a> unless they work to improve the number of minorities that are eligible to vote that actually register.<\/p>\n * A judged tweaked the ballot language for Prop 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Meg Whitman’s (non eMeg) political donors have a strong tilt towards developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Links:<\/p>\n * Much ado about gifts in Los Angeles. DA Steve Cooley is investigating Mayor Villaraigosa and the state is going to change the rules<\/a>, but meanwhile Cooley himself is accepting a slew of gifts<\/a> from “close personal friends.” Friends that, generally, have some connection to the County of LA. Funny that. (Note: Brian works for the Kamala Harris campaign.)<\/p>\n * Meg Whitman sent out a mailer with a cheap (and factually wrong) attack<\/a> against Jerry Brown. Trying to tie him to Bell, Whitman played fun with numbers. The result was, funny enough, some very dark mail. The truth tells a different story. Brown presided over a city that was better on the day that he left office than when he entered. Meanwhile, Jerry Brown investigated the actual City of Bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n * San Bernardino County is going to face some voting rights act troubles<\/a> unless they work to improve the number of minorities that are eligible to vote that actually register.<\/p>\n * A judged tweaked the ballot language for Prop 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n