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A couple of good Capitol eggs want to be elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention from Sacramento Fifth Congressional District. 

Karen Skelton, a former Bill Clinton and Al Gore staffer now with Dewey Square and Steve Maviglio, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s communications director, are trolling for votes. 

The election is this Sunday at the Sacramento Public Library on 8th and I at 2 p.m.    Read more »

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June’s Eminent Domain Ballot Battle Is All About Rent Control

This June’s ballot duel between rival initiatives that each claim to restrict the ability of local government to seize public property will be all about rent control. 

A brief clause in Proposition 98, sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, prohibits “limiting the price a private owner may charge another person to purchase, occupy or use his or her real property” which effectively repeals rent control in California.     Read more »

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Big Expenditures By Independent Expenditure Committees

The Fair Political Practices Commission wants more disclosure of donors to independent expenditure committees, which have spent $88 million on legislative and statewide candidates since 2000. 

Use of the committees has sharply proliferated since voters enacted Proposition 34, a campaign finance initiative that imposed contribution limits on legislative and statewide candidates.     Read more »

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