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links for 2010-11-03

  • A Statement From Kevin Spillane – Senior Consultant, Steve Cooley for Attorney General

    “With the counties completing their semi-official returns, Steve Cooley trails Kamala Harris by 14,838 votes – two-tenths of a percentage point. There are over 1 million provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted.”

    “The race for Attorney General will not be decided for at least another couple of weeks, and potentially could go until the official Certification of Vote deadline on December 3.

    “We will continue to monitor the situation. The only thing we are certain of is that the final outcome will be close. We are grateful for all the good wishes of our supporters and will keep you updated.”
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    Alot of ballots to be counted.

  • Republicans may have won the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday's midterm election, but things, as usual, are different in the Golden State, where Democrats claimed victory in nearly all of California's statewide races.

    We're still waiting for the outcome of the attorney general race, where San Francisco Democrat Kamala Harris currently has a razor-thin lead over Los Angeles Republican Steve Cooley. But voters went decidedly Democratic on the rest of the ticket.
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    They call it a shellacking….

    (tags: democrats GOP)
  • Republican Kristi Noem, who's already being touted as a rising star in her party after capturing South Dakota's at-large House seat Tuesday, still hasn't decided whether to back Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for House Speaker.

    On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Noem said it would be premature to announce her backing for Boehner or any other Republican for Speaker just yet.

    "I'm not even sure who's running yet," said Noem, who ousted Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.) in a tight race Tuesday.

    The Republican, who has evoked comparisons to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, indicated that she would wait until she's had the chance to converse with some of her new GOP colleagues in Washington before she decides whom to back for the Speakership.
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    Rookie mistake? Or just being cautious?

    Probably the latter….

    (tags: Kristi_Noem)
  • Rudy Giuliani and Barbara Walters bantering on The View today.

    WALTERS: She now says she will run if nobody else will. Do you think she would make a good President?

    RUDY: Well, first of all, she's not going to have that situation — that nobody else will [run]. I ain't never heard of that!

    Nobody will run for President of the United States?

    There are now people registering as Republican in order to line up to run.
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    Rudy is also the quipper:

    Later, they ask Rudy what it would take for him to run.

    His answer: "If nobody else runs."

  • San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.

    San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed the law on Tuesday on a veto-proof 8-to-3 vote. It takes effect on December 1.

    The law, like an ordinance passed earlier this year in nearby Santa Clara County, would require that restaurant kids' meals meet certain nutritional standards before they could be sold with toys.

    Opponents of the law include the National Restaurant Association and McDonald's Corp, which used its now wildly popular Happy Meal to pioneer the use of free toys to market directly to children.
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    Good grief – next they will legislate what we eat.

    Big government = lack of liberty

    (tags: Nanny_State)