Hello and good afternoon all. First, an important Webcast following the state’s Women’s Conference is taking place with representatives from several progressive groups from 3:30 pm – 4 pm today; tune in at http://www.getthefactsca.org/2010/10/live-webcast-today-330-400pm/.
And now, in today’s news:
Top of the Ticket: Women and the 2010 Election
Capitol Alert (Sac Bee blog), LA Times blog 10/26/10
Whitman, refusing to pull negative ads, jeered at women's conference
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/10/whitman-refusing-to-pull-negat.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/meg-whitman-jerry-brown-pushed-on-negative-campaign-ads-at-long-beach-event.html
Los Angeles Times 10/26/10
For women, ideology trumps the gender card
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-campaign-women-20101026,0,4386170.story
San Francisco Chronicle 10/26/10
Maria Shriver's Women's Conference abuzz with political gossip -- like Meg planning final $15-$18 million GOTV push?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=75455
Los Angeles Times 10/26/10
NRSC airs a new anti-Boxer ad targeting women
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/nrsc-airs-a-new-anti-boxer-ad-targeting-women.html
Calbuzz 10/26/10
How eMeg Should Play Gender; Rove Boosts Lungren
http://www.calbuzz.com/2010/10/how-emeg-should-play-gender-rove-boosts-lungren/
State Environmental Politics
The Huffington Post 10/26/10
Man on a Mission: Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager, Tom Steyer, on Why Californians Must Protect Their Landmark Energy Law at the Polls Next Week
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-dakotah/man-on-a-mission-billiona_b_773690.html
ABC News 10/26/10
Vote 2010 Election: Proposition 23, California's Global Warming Initiative, Stirs National Energy Debate
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vote-2010-election-proposition-23-californias-global-warming/story?id=11966185
Southern California Public Radio 10/26/10
California confronts climate change, economic change with Proposition 23
http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/10/26/proposition-23/
The Orange County Register 10/26/10
Prop. 23: the war over warming
http://www.ocregister.com/news/prop-272767-percent-law.html?cb=1288060635
Los Angeles Times 10/26/10
State panel to debate nuclear power
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/state-panel-to-debate-nuclear-power.html
Fresno Bee 10/25/10
Fresno zoo expansion has big part in park plan
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/10/25/2131942/park-plan-for-fresno-zoo-expansion.html
State Politics
San Francisco Chronicle 10/26/10
Carly Fiorina surging as Meg Whitman falls back
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/26/MND71G0LNE.DTL
Associated Press 10/26/10
California Senate hopeful Fiorina hospitalized
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_16437787
California Watch 10/26/10
Boxer, Fiorina to blanket airwaves this week
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/boxer-fiorina-blanket-airwaves-week-6079
L.A. Now 10/26/10
Steve Lopez: More worthwhile causes for Meg Whitman's $140 million
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/steve-lopez-more-worthwhile-causes-for-meg-whitmans-140-million.html
Bay Citizen 10/26/10
Voters Want Jobs, But Governors Can't Do Much to Create Them
http://www.baycitizen.org/elections-2010/story/voters-want-jobs-governors-cant-do-much/
Los Angeles Times 10/26/10
Feinstein hints she'll run again in 2012
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/feinstein-hints-shell-run-again-in-2012.html