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The six million dollar mayor:
Why the 2007 mayor's race will be so different

(Part 3 of a 5 part series)

Mayor Gavin Newsom
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

February 21, 2007

Editor's Note: Part 3 of a 5 part series by elections and ethics expert Joe Lynn. Lynn explains that scandals aren't all that will reduce Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign fundraising

Mayor Newsom's fundraising is off the pace set in the last election

We had earlier noted that Newsom's fundraising before the scandal was not keeping pace with his 2003 record $6 million haul. Despite the Examiner's headlines (which was removed from the home page the same day it was published), it reports facts that confirm my analysis.

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Domestic partnership may be extended
to heterosexuals

Senator Carole Migden. File photo,1/10/7
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Elizabeth Daley and Tamara Barak, Bay City News Service

February 17, 2007

The option of domestic partnership may be extended to heterosexual couples statewide if California Senator Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, has her way.

Tracy Fairchild, a spokeswoman for Migden, said the senator, who authored California's first same-sex domestic partnership bill in 1999, is now proposing Senate Bill 11 to extend those rights to opposite-sex couples.

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U.S. judge refuses blanket stay
of surveillance lawsuits

By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service

February 21, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A federal judge in San Francisco Tuesday turned down a government request for a complete stay for the time being of more than three dozen surveillance lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies.

The lawsuits charge that the corporations - including AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. - aided the National Security Agency in alleged illegal warrantless surveillance of Americans' phone calls and e-mails.

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Obama lights up Westin St. Francis ballroom,
stumps for Boxer 2010 re-election bid

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) gestures to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) referring to her as "a cutie" and "a meteor" during a Westin St. Francis ballroom fundraiser event for Boxer's 2010 re-election bid.
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Luke Thomas

February 20, 2007

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) got her 2010 re-election campaign off to a flying start, Monday, at the San Francisco Westin Saint Francis hotel. With as many as 1500 supporters attending the standing room only event, Boxer reportedly took in over $350,000 in campaign contributions.

Boxer's biggest coup, of course, was her invitation to the ebullient junior senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama, who draws capacity crowds wherever he speaks.

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And in other news...

- Police probe San Francisco shootings for possible connection

- Two Bayview-Hunters Point murder victims identified

- Sexualized images of girls impact health, according to San Francisco professor

FCJ Quote of the Day

The voters will not forget who let them down. This war is not only the presidents. This war belongs to Congress as well, to Democrats and Republican alike."
- Dennis Kucinich, 12/5/6