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Democratic chairman doesn't fear Maldonado
SACRAMENTO -- John Burton, the combative chairman of the California Democratic Party, isn't too worried about Republican Abel Maldonado running for governor next year. "Oh, I bet Jerry Brown is wetting his pants," he quipped Friday before speaking...
Tags: Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Same-Sex Marriage, Elections, Politics
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Democrats' education fight reveals rifts amid one-party rule
SACRAMENTO -- One day after a combative Gov. Jerry Brown promised Senate Democrats “the battle of their lives” if they opposed his education plan, lawmakers from Brown’s own party held their ground on Thursday and took jabs of their...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Darrell Steinberg, Parties and Movements, Politics, Government
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows fight with judges over prisons
SACRAMENTO — Escalating a dispute with the courts over California's troubled prison system, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday fired back at federal judges who threatened to hold him in contempt, vowing to "litigate until the Supreme Court tells us that we'...
Tags: Jerry Brown, U.S. Supreme Court, Laws, Trials, Lawyers
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Utah, Virginia governors visit California to woo businesses
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were in California this week on a whirlwind tour to woo Golden State businesses to expand or relocate to their states. At the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Thursday, both state...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Bob McDonnell, Business, Rick Perry
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Jerry Brown goes electric to lure Chinese tourists
SHANGHAI -- A trip that has been marked by solemn meetings with Communist Party officials in dark suits took a decidedly different tack Friday as Gov. Jerry Brown helped launch a new ad campaign to attract Chinese tourists to California. The glass...
Tags: Music, Online Advertising, Tourism and Leisure, Advertising, Jerry Brown
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows to continue fight over prison conditions
SHANGHAI, CHINA -- Contending there is nothing more California can do to reduce prison crowding without increasing crime on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown vows to take his case, again, to the same Supreme Court that rebuffed him two years ago. “...
Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Judges, Jerry Brown, Safety of Citizens
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Warrant signed to extradite Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect
A governor's warrant has been signed to extradite the man suspected in a fatal shooting and subsequent crash on the Las Vegas Strip, officials said. Los Angeles County district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison confirmed the governor's warrant had...Tags: International Law, Ammar Harris, Lawyers, Justice System, Accidental Death
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Judges threaten Gov. Jerry Brown with contempt of court
SACRAMENTO — A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California's packed prisons. In a...
Tags: Prisons, Safety of Citizens, Jerry Brown, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics
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California's budget: Judges, lawyers and lobbying
Should California judges be able to ask lawyers for help in lobbying Sacramento against cuts to the courts' budgets? Many judges and lawyers just assumed the answer was yes. Why wouldn't they be able to? Nobody is better acquainted with the trouble caused...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Ethics, Elections, Budgets and Budgeting, Lawyers
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio
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California Gov. Jerry Brown rides Chinese bullet train [Video]
SHANGHAI -- The focus of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s trip to China on Thursday intersected with one of the most controversial issues of his governorship -- high-speed rail. Brown rode a bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, walking the aisles,...
Tags: Jerry Brown, China, Politics, Government
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Skelton: Special interests give Brown free ride to China
Gov. Jerry Brown's trip to China isn't being paid for by taxpayers. The governor isn't footing the bill either. Instead, the cost is covered by the roughly 90 people traveling with Brown, some of them representing special interests. It's one of...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Heads of State, Jerry Brown, China, Travel
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