First Take: Pot backers hit the air. GOP strip-club fallout continues.

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Backers of an initiative to legalize marijuana have hit the airwaves with their first radio ad. The continuing instability in the state budget has stalled construction of low-income housing units in Los Angeles.

An Orange County political consultant who was reimbursed by the Republican National Committee for a night out at a strip club has ties to two California Republican candidates for statewide office.

Jean Merl looks at the race to replace Paul Krekorian in the Assembly.

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