A few weeks ago, I blogged about how former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez pulled papers to run for state treasurer in 2014. I speculated that whether we see Fabian Nuñez re-emerge in elected office will depend largely upon what happens with his son’s murder trail, which is scheduled to begin in May. Well, another [...]

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For the past few days, in addition to the tropical produce name calling, Marco Rubio, the GOP candidate for the Senate in Florida, has been getting some heat for his spending ways. Basically, he made some charges to his state GOP American Express card for $133 hair cuts (his hair cut doesn’t look that complicated), [...]

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Former California Assembly Speaker and current partner in Mercury Public Affairs, Fabian Nuñez has pulled papers to run for state treasurer in 2014. He also filed paperwork to run for the State Senate for this year, but everyone pretty much attributed that move as a means for him to park his campaign cash. Nuñez has [...]

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Back when Esteban Nuñez, the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez,  was arrested late last year for the murder of Luis Dos Santos, many blog commenters and other observers of the case thought that Nuñez’s friends would start to turn on him. Remember that four young men were charged in this case. Well, it looks [...]

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Mayor Sam had an interesting blog post that caught my eye last week about Mayor Villaraigosa and Hispanic Heritage Month. It used to be Hispanic Heritage Week, which was initiated by President Johnson back in 1968, and it was subsequently expanded to a month by President Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30 day period from September 15 to October [...]

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