Pete Wilson

Decrying TV Attacks, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Gives A Boost To Wendy Greuel

So much for staying neutral. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has said that he would not get involved in the campaign to succeed him, saying he wants to maintain good relations with both Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti.But if we know one thing about this guy, it's that he's constitutionally incapable of st ... More >>

Wednesday Attack Ad Round-Up: Three New Spots Slam Mayoral Candidates in English and en Español

We're already getting a little nostalgic for the L.A. mayor's race, which will be over next Tuesday. Call us crazy, but we think we'll miss the attack ads the most. There's just something compelling about seeing fundamentally decent public servants portray each other as child-killing monsters.Today ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants Should Be Able To Stay In California, Voters Say

We're not sure what's happened in recent years, but California's stance toward illegal immigrants has gone from the hate of the Pete Wilson '90s to almost nothin' but love today (unless, of course, you listen to AM talk radio). USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll numbers released over the weekend s ... More >>

Unlicensed Drivers Three Times As Likely To Be Involved In Fatal Crash In Calif.

Unlicensed drivers and those rolling on revoked or suspended documents are nearly three times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident, according to a recent DMV look at 23 years of crash data in California. That stunning statistic has some calling for a reevaluation of the state's denial of ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Me Llamo Steve Poizner Y Quiero Su Apoyo

Steve Poizner has a message for that sliver of the electorate that speaks Spanish, votes Republican, opposes Pete Wilson and Prop. 187, but supports the Arizona immigration law:This is the political equivalent of a reverse triple backflip into a half somersault with no splash. English translation af ... More >>

Trutanich Crime Ad: Tempest in PC Teapot

Until last Sunday, many if not most Los Angeles voters had probably only heard of one of the City Attorney candidates, the somewhat annoying Westside City Councilman Jack Weiss. But then the Los Angeles Times endorsed Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich and we suddenly realized a race was on. The Times assu ... More >>

California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage

How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not

Whose Backlash?

Nuestro backlash

Raw Deal II

Inside the fateful 2004 meeting where aides steered the governor wrong

Arnold’s Gray Day

A portrait of a troubled term

The Child in Hard Time

Meet Alonza Thomas, first-time juvenile offender, now superpredator

A Bad Vintage

Arnold uncorks the old Pete Wilson whine

Arnold the Taxmanian

The governor’s plan to raise taxes

In From Out There

How Pete Wilson inadvertently politicized a generation of young Mexican immigrants

A Righteous Collision

Let’s see if our immigrant governor can avoid Wilsonian hysteria over driver’s licenses

Conan the Governor

The view from the top

The GOP Will Fix California’s Economy

Like George W. Bush has fixed America’s

Collateral Damage

Where’s Arnold? His campaign — and the media — stumbles over Proposition 187

Can You Spell Arnold Ventura?

What Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura have in common — or not

Days of the Locust

Yet another of California’s middle-class riots is upon us

True Lies

A week in the life of the Terminator, the candidate hiding in plain sight

Reign of Chaos

What a mess faces California politics and finances

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

Master of Disaster

How Pete Wilson’s energy chief short-circuited the California grid

Sacramento Scramble

State government struggles to undo its deregulation debacle

All My Children

A first-year teacher’s journal

Waving the Waiver

It’s nonsense to send people with colds to ER

Land of Secrets

Public officials should know what they do is public

Size Matters

Former Governor Pete Wilson said that reducing class size would be good for kids. He should have said it would be good for affluent kids.

Interview with Wally Knox

More Endorsements

Juvenile Injustice

Proposition 21 aims to send thousands of California teenagers to adult prisons

Pot Reform Stalls in Sacramento

Governor Davis playing it straight

Gray Dawn

The drab debut of Governor Davis

Judicial Litmus

Gray Davis Takes Over

And Howard Jarvis stays put

Money, Money, Money

Can’t Kill for Trying

Man With a Mission

When Mike Reynolds — the author of “three strikes” and “10-20-Life” — proposes, the state Legislature disposes

Polls, Pols and Propositions

Twenty years of political coverage

1992 Timeline

The Avengers

Our selections in Tuesday's General Election

Endorsements 98

Our selections in Tuesday's General Election (cont.)

L.A. County's Poorest Catch a Break

Back from the Brink

Secret Agent Men

Nudity, Gunshots, Sex, Feathers

Glowing Future Dims for Dump

Revelations undermine state claim to nuke site

Our selections in next week's primary