Politics
Last year, Rep. Mervyn M.
March 3, 1992
California congressional candidates may be raising campaign funds at a record pace, but that doesn’t mean that all the money is being used to woo voters in their districts on Tuesday.
Nov. 1, 1992
California congressional candidates may be raising campaign funds at a record pace, but that does not mean that all the money is being used to woo voters for Tuesday’s election.
Orange County legislators, faced with few restrictions on the use of campaign contributions and often encountering little opposition at the polls, spend much of their supporters’ money on expenses not directly related to their own campaigns, finance reports show.
May 23, 1988
California
It is more than 8,000 miles outside his district--but County Supervisor Deane Dana used campaign funds to visit the South Pole to observe the work of county scientists.
Jan. 16, 1994
More than two years after they began campaigning for mayor of Los Angeles, James K.
June 5, 2001
24 Frames
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Sept. 21, 2011
If there was a theme to this year’s midterm elections, it was that any substantive messages were drowned out by the relentlessly negative tone of campaigns on both sides, for all offices, across the country.
Nov. 18, 1986
James Monahan, City Council member “I’ve been in five elections, and this is by far the worst.
Nov. 15, 1993
Speaking to high school students in the Northern California town of Concord the other day, Republican presidential candidate George Bush joked that he was “glad to be here in Connecticut.”
Sept. 29, 1988