Bob Stern
Bob Stern
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When donors have wealthy relatives, that enhances the value of the donation. A candidate loves to know wealthy people who have big families.
raising
I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.
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I would give odds that something would pass but it wouldn't shock me if they failed to agree. This is an election year, a political year, and you never know what's going to happen.
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I don't have any specific information on the reimbursement channel for the support or the expenses it will cost to receive the evacuees.
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Nobody is minding the store. If you don't have any agency monitoring and no enforcement, people think they can get away with it.
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New things popping up -- and something nobody thought about 30 years ago.
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We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation. People need to know who is influencing the governor on contributions to this -- a trip he's going on.
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We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation,
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You have to work harder at it. But you don't have to work as hard as if you were a U.S. Senate candidate or a congressional candidate.
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There have been wealthy candidates before in California, but this is the first time we've seen wealth-on-wealth. The most obvious impact for voters is that they are going to see lots and lots of television ads.
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The governor doesn't necessarily meet the hoi polloi of California when he goes to these events,
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It's much more important to raise money to defeat (Prop. 77) than it is to raise money for their own re-election.
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It's not appropriate for City Hall to be used for private business. It seems the better part of valor would be to have Southern California Edison reimburse the city for the expense or for her to use another facility.
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This isn't campaign money it's government access money, and that's what we should call it. If you have strong convictions, you're not going to give to both sides.