First Take: Meg Whitman’s and Carly Fiorina’s different paths. Gloria Allred hits ‘Saturday Night Live.’

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Seema Mehta and Maeve Reston look at the different paths taken by Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman on the campaign trail.

George Skelton tees off on Proposition 19, the effort to legalize marijuana.

Cathleen Decker provides an overview of the top-of-the-ticket races in the Los Angeles Times Voter Guide.

Whitman passed up an opportunity to comment on a tape-recorded conversation in which someone in Jerry Brown’s campaign is heard calling her a ‘whore.’

The Whitman housekeeper story went national this weekend, in the opening sketch of ‘Saturday Night Live.’

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a state budget Friday, but not before vetoing nearly $1 billion in additional state spending.

It’s another busy week on the campaign trail. With just three weeks left until election day, Brown and Whitman will face off in their final scheduled gubernatorial debate Tuesday. This one will be moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw. Be sure to check PolitiCal for live coverage of the debate, and for all of your California political news.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento