UPDATE: The state Senate debate in Napa is Thursday. The item below has been corrected. The campaign debate season is well underway. There have been numerous opportunities to see district attorney candidates Stephan Passalacqua and Jill Ravitch and all six people running for two seats on the Board of Supervisors [...]
How confident is Rep. Lynn Woolsey in her re-election? She was one of 15 House members who voted in favor of a congressional pay raise today. The $1,700 cost-of-living increase failed on a 402-15 vote. It also was rejected without a roll-call vote by the Senate last week. Members of [...]
Call it junk food budgeting – binge now, pay later. According to a report by the state legislative analyst, the latest critic of pending efforts sell two dozen state office buildings – including the Judge Joseph A. Rattigan Building in Santa Rosa – and lease them back, the maneuver will [...]
A couple quick thoughts on the contretemps about just what Jamie Thistlethwaite told the Sonoma County Democratic Central Committee about her opposition to the death penalty and how (whether?) it would affect her as a judge. Is it any wonder that U.S. Supreme Court nominees seemingly have no opinions about [...]
Confusion continues over what judicial candidate Jamie Thistlethwaite did and did not say during her interview with members of the Sonoma County Democratic Party Central Committee on March 17. Alice Chan of Sebastopol, the chairwoman of the committee that interviewed the judicial candidates, has weighed in and says her notes were wrong and have since [...]
A member of the six-person Democratic Party panel that interviewed Sonoma County judicial candidates last month has weighed in on the controversy between Chris Mazzia and Jamie Thistlethwaite over whether Thistlethwaite promised to take the death penalty “off the table.” Her position: Mazzia is right. “She did say that,” said the [...]
It’s not exactly six degrees of separation, but there’s a nexus between the election to fill Mike Kerns seat on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, a lawsuit challenging the Rohnert Park casino and John Paul Stevens’ retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. Petaluma Councilman Mike Healy is one of [...]
Remember when it seemed as if SMART service to northern Sonoma County might become the defining issue for supervisorial candidates Mike McGuire and Debora Fudge? McGuire unloaded on Fudge almost daily, beginning in late January, after the SMART board said it might not be able to start commuter rail service [...]
The Press Democrat Editorial Board began interviewing candidates this week, starting with the six seeking seats on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors in the June 8 primary. We began with Deborah Fudge on Monday and David Rabbitt on Tuesday. Mike Healy and Pam Torliatt came in on Wednesday. Mike [...]
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