By Bettina Duval, at Calitics
When did it become politically incorrect for women candidates to be passionate about running for public office? As I sit here reading the events surrounding the resignation of the Obama campaign’s foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, I can’t help but feel this strikes yet another blow for fight for equal representation […]

A recession? A depression?  The disparaging financial news released this week makes us all pause and question what our financial future really, truly looks like. Living here in California, we know we are in serious trouble.  I believe that we do not fully understand the full extent of what kind of impact our $14 billion […]

Posted by Bettina Duval at Calitics
Super Tuesday is only a few days away when thousands of Californians will cast their votes in the Democratic primary. It seems this has become a race where campaign issues have become dwarfed by the diversity of the candidates themselves. Amazingly, the two most diverse candidates, Senator Barak […]

Source: California Chronicle
California Political Desk
September 7, 2007
SACRAMENTO – The Assembly today passed a plan by Sen. Jenny Oropeza to prevent California’s newest citizens from being disenfranchised when seeking to vote.
“Newly sworn-in citizens should be allowed to register and vote right up to the close of polls on Election Day,” Oropeza, D-Long Beach, said after […]

Source: SacBee BlogWatch
Posted by Bettina Duval
www.californiaprogressreport.com
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s victory in New Hampshire was the (second) time in our history that a woman won a presidential primary. Her win was a momentous achievement that the early suffragettes could only dream of. It was a triumph for all women – a giant step forward in the […]