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May 24, 2011
BPA ban narrowly passes Assembly but needs your help in the Senate

AB 1319 narrowly passed out of state Assembly yesterday with 41 votes.

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May 20, 2011
CD 36 Update: Hahn & Huey Advance to Run-Off

Yesterday, Debra Bowen officially conceded the second place spot in the 36th Congressional District run-off to Republican Craig Huey after Huey’s lead grew to 750 votes with only 200 ballots left unaccounted for.

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May 18, 2011
CD 36: Too Close To Call

If you were sitting by a computer and constantly refreshing the Secretary of State or LA County Registrar website last night (and yes there are some people like me who do that), you were watching a nail-biter. Well, sort of. With the advent of the top two open primary, the attention is more focused on who comes in second than who comes in first.

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May 17, 2011
Vote for Debra Bowen for Congress TODAY!

All the pundits in California have been waiting for today: the special election to replace Former Congresswoman Jane Harman. This is the first high profile test of the new open primary system in California. Will the system create new dynamic surprises? Nobody knows for sure. 

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May 16, 2011
How to Move Forward on AB 32 without Leaving Communities Behind

Sen. De León has introduced SB 535 to make sure that all communities in the state can be better prepared for the challenges of global warming.

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May 6, 2011
Big Oil's Fingerprints

[UPDATED May 9, 2011] You don’t have to be a detective to find Dirty Energy’s oily fingerprints all over our current national political debate on expanding oil drilling. But it helps that there are still investigative journalists who look into these things every now and again.

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May 3, 2011
Time to choose: Kids or chemical industry?

How can there be any ambiguity about whether to allow a toxic chemical—one that’s been linked to cancer, obesity, ADHD, and disrupted development of hormones, the brain, and the immune system in more than 220 peer-reviewed studies — to be used in baby bottles, sippy cups, infant formula and baby food?

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May 2, 2011
The Lines that Divide Us: The End of Gerrymandering?

Every ten years, California must redraw its political boundaries to reflect new population data gathered in the federal census.

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Apr 27, 2011
Bowen and Hahn: This is going to be close

What is it about the coastal area around Torrance, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and Venice?

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Apr 25, 2011
What's NOT on my baby registry: toxic chemicals

It's time to get toxic chemicals out of children's products.

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