NATIONAL
March 21, 2004 | Edwin Chen, Times Staff Writer
At a rally marking the kickoff of his reelection campaign, President Bush on Saturday unleashed a blistering attack on John F. Kerry's domestic and foreign policy positions while portraying himself as a decisive leader who would keep America safe during troubled times. Returning to the heart of the state that delivered him the White House in the disputed 2000 election, Bush was greeted by a crowd of some 10,000 supporters at the Orange County Convention Center here.
NATIONAL
May 2, 2012 | By David Horsey
A political campaign is about the worst time to have a discussion about economic realities. The party that is out will speak of nothing but looming disaster while the party that is in will be singing nothing but “Happy Days Are Here Again.” And, since our current political system is in a permanent campaign mode, economics never escapes the warp of politics. The truth is, it is easy for politicians to pick and choose among the facts to support whatever best serves their campaigns because economic news can be good and bad at the same time.
NEWS
April 26, 2012 | By Karin Klein
No matter how you feel about Meg Whitman, head of Hewlett-Packard, former head of eBay, you'd have to concede that one of her biggest contributions to the California economy was as candidate for California governor. She lavished about $160 million on her failed campaign, and we'd have to guess that most or all of that was spent within the state. It might be hard to get the engine of California's economy revving again, but we do get a good, if short-term, cough out of political campaigns, and the most recent proof of this is the spending on Proposition 29, the initiative that would impose an extra dollar-per-pack tax on cigarettes and use most of the proceeds on medical research for cancer and cardiovascular and lung diseases.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 3, 2013 | By Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times
A few years ago, campaigning in Cudahy and Bell was an ugly affair. Fliers smeared rival candidates as "terrorists," allegations of voter fraud ran rampant and, in some cases, death threats were made against political contenders. But high-profile corruption scandals in each city over the last two years have led to what residents hope is an unprecedented change: cleaner campaigns. "There's no intimidation factor," said Denise Rodarte, a member of the grass-roots group Bell Assn.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 18, 1990
How much is an election worth? Apparently quite a bit, since Orange County Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder has already raised $159,000 for her 1990 reelection campaign. By the time the campaign is over, much more will probably be spent by the wealthy landowners, builders and developers who wish to see Wieder remain in office in order to preserve their political advantage. In a county that has real problems housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, coping with drug abuse, building affordable housing, providing health care, educating the young and caring for the elderly, expenditures of this magnitude on political campaigns seem nothing less than obscene.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 28, 1995 | RUSS LOAR
The City Council tonight will review a proposal to revise the city's ordinance governing political campaigns. The new plan is intended to close loopholes in existing regulations. The proposed ordinance, more than a year in the making, would raise limits on campaign contributions, prohibit multiple campaign committees and create new regulations in areas ranging from the transfer of campaign funds to campaign loans.