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Assembly District 50 Election Results: Who Voted For Betsy Butler and Richard Bloom?

Take the L.A. Weekly exit poll after the jump. We want to know why you voted for Betsy Butler or Richard Bloom. While Assemblywoman Betsy Butler and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom wait for election results to be confirmed in the too-close-to-call Assembly District 50 race, the Los Angeles County ... More >>

California Assembly District 50 Campaign: Will Gay Voters Choose Betsy Butler or Richard Bloom?

For the L.A. Weekly story "Will Betsy Butler's Sex Pervert Vote Kill Her Political Career?" we talked with longtime political analyst Jamie Regalado, who thought state Assemblywoman Betsy Butler had another major problem on her hands: The gay vote may go to rival Richard Bloom in the contentious Ass ... More >>

California Assembly District 50 Race: Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City Disses Local Son Richard Bloom

California State Assemblywoman Betsy Butler and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom are battling it out in the competitive Assembly District 50 race, and with such a close election expected, anything can help -- or hurt. Butler and Bloom would have probably liked the endorsements of their like-minded ... More >>

UPDATE: Assembly District 50 Results: Betsy Butler and Richard Bloom Still Lead in Close Race

Update, June 19: Results for the California Assembly District 50 race have been updated, after the break. The California Assembly District 50 race is still super close, with the four candidates within one percentage point of each other. As of today, Assemblywoman Betsy Butler is still leading with ... More >>

Assembly District 50 Results: Richard Bloom To Face Betsy Butler in November, Upsets Torie Osborn

In the hotly contested race for California Assembly District 50, Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom ran strong in a close, four-way battle that included Democratic Assemblywoman Betsy Butler, Democratic candidate Torie Osborn, and gay Republican Brad Torgan. At 2:58 a.m., with 100 percent of the tota ... More >>

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California Assembly District 50 Race: Torie Osborn Mailer Rips Into Rival Betsy Butler's Commitment to Education

There's only a week until Election Day, and the contentious California Assembly District 50 race has ramped up several notches, with candidate Torie Osborn sending out a mailer that questions rival and Assemblywoman Betsy Butler's commitment to education. Butler's supporters are now aggressively com ... More >>

California Assembly District 50: Where All the Rich, White, Liberal People in Los Angeles Live

In the current issue of L.A. Weekly, the feature story "Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest" takes a look at the hard-fought, highly contentious political race for California Assembly District 50 -- one of the wealthiest, most celebrity-packed, left-winger districts in the entire country. It also ha ... More >>

Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

Assembly Candidate Torie Osborn Enlists Gay Activists In Fight Against Gay Speaker John Pérez

Torie Osborn​Torie Osborn, a veteran gay activist, is campaigning for a new Assembly district that stretches from West Hollywood to Malibu. She's been lining up big endorsements, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.But Osborn is facing powerful opposition from an unexpected source: Assembly Speak ... More >>

L.A. Gay Pride: Comedian Margaret Cho Gets Lifetime Achievement Award, Bravo's Annoying Andy Cohen is 'Person of the Year'

Gay Pride award winner Margaret Cho​Gay Pride in L.A. is almost here, and Christopher Street West, which organizes the official parade in West Hollywood every year in June, has named its "2011 Slate of Honorees." Comedian Margaret Cho tops the list with the Morris Kight Lifetime Achievement A ... More >>

Setting the (Gay) Wedding Table

Wiser, more diffuse, battle-savvy gay-rights groups craft a 2010 ballot measure for California

Queer Town: Obama Touts 'Equal Justice' in Vegas, Ignores Prop. 8 Ruling

Last night at a political fundraiser in Las Vegas, President Barack Obama made a pitch for nearly everything under the sun: better education, "change" in Washington, improved national fuel efficiency standards and a host of other things, even a plug for his new U.S. Supreme Court justice pick, Sonia ... More >>

Queer Town: The Torie Osborn Speech

Torie Osborn in downtown Los AngelesIn a recent speech given by Torie Osborn at a grassroots training seminar called Camp Courage, the longtime gay rights activist and former executive director of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center called for a new way of doing things within the gay establishm ... More >>

Queer Town: The Subtle Lessons of the Equality Summit

On Saturday, January 24, Equality California and other major gay organizations hosted an event called the Equality Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown L.A.. Since these groups, many of which were heavily involved in the "No on 8" campaign, never held a live, in-person town hall m ... More >>

Queer Town: Power Lesbian Criticizes "No on 8" Campaign

On Saturday, in the Huffington Post, power lesbian and longtime gay rights activist Torie Osborn did something few people in her A-list position have been willing to do: Publicly criticize the "No on 8" campaign.   While Osborn doesn't name names, she still takes the "No on 8" campaign to ... More >>

New Mayor, New City

Antonio can remake the city as he pleases — well, sort of

In Search of Gay Leaders

And, once we find them, what should they do for Los Angeles?

The Great Divide

Why Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt and others are voting for Ralph Nader . . .And why Todd Gitlin, Ishmael Reed, Arlie Hochschild, Robert Scheer and others are not

Unsafe at Any Speed

Why a vote for Nader will weaken, not build, the progressive movement

Liberty and Justice for All

The Democratic Party platform you won’t see

Gay Shame

The threat of a Bush victory

Out on the Web

GeoCities founder David Bohnett just wanted to make the WWW a community. Now he's worth $350 million.

What's Next?

The Gay Movement at the Crossroads

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