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DeVore’s Chief of Staff in the Assembly, Leisa Brug Kline, doubles as his campaign manager. She runs her own public relations firm, Van der Brug, but was paid only $4,299.78 for campaign work in 2009, according to campaign finance records. Meanwhile, she’s considered a full-time employee of the State Assembly, which pays her $8,125 a month, according to state payroll records.

DeVore’s campaign communications director, Joshua Trevino, also worked part-time as a senior consultant for DeVore’s Assembly office. Trevino started with DeVore’s Assembly office as press secretary in September 2008. Back then, he earned $2,084 a month for working a part-time schedule that required him to be on the job for 50 percent of the work week. Trevino left DeVore’s Assembly office the next month, but returned in March 2009 as a “senior consultant” earning $5,000 a month on a 60 percent schedule. At the same time, Trevino wrote on his Facebook page that he joined the DeVore for Senate campaign in 3/2009..

The vast majority of Tom Campbell’s supporters in his bid for the GOP nomination to take on U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer don’t know that he supports gay marriage, according to a new poll by a national anti-gay marriage group.

Only 2 percent of current Campbell supporters were aware that he explicitly supports same-sex marriage and opposed Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that ended these marriages in California.

The poll was commissioned by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a Washington, D.C., based group that has been working to defeat and repeal gay marriage bids in several states. They commissioned the poll of 500 likely GOP voters, conducted March 12-15 by the firm QEV Analytics. NOM is also working to make sure GOP voters know Campbell’s position.
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A contrast ad closer to the election will make the distinction.