‘Tis the Season — The Steady Barrage of Slate Mailers Begins

(Editor’s Note: The asterisk next to a candidate’s name or a ballot proposition indicates they have paid California Voter Guide of Torrance California to be recommended on the mailer. That being the case, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, candidate for Attorney General, and Assemblyman Mike Villines, running for insurance commissioner, each paid more since their photographs appear on both the cover and the inside of the mailer. The same is true of the “yes” campaigns for Proposition 16, bankrolled primarily by Pacific Gas & Electric, and Proposition 17, supported by the auto insurance industry. Keeping overhead low, California Voter Guide appears to use largely the same design on its mailers — only the names and propositions change.)