Patrick Range McDonald

Update: At 12:32 a.m., Measure HH is looking strong with support from 71 percent of voters. Measure MM, however, is not as solid with 65 percent. The initiatives need at least 66.67 percent to win. In early returns and absentee balloting, Measure MM and Measure HH have strong approval from......

Update: L.A. County voters continue to come through for Governor Jerry Brown. At 12:26 a.m., with 46 percent of precincts reporting, L.A. voters back Prop. 30 with 58 percent of the vote. As of 10:47 p.m., Governor Jerry Brown and his Proposition 30 are still in the game. California Secretary......

Major media outlets have concluded that Molly Munger's Proposition 38 is a big loser -- and by a huge margin if current numbers hold up. As of 10:20 p.m., the California Secretary of State web site shows that voters shot down Prop. 38 by 74 percent -- no other initiative......

In the California Assembly District 39 race, Democrat and longtime political aide Raul Bocanegra has a major lead over Democratic L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon. Sixty-three percent of voters back Bocanegra and 36 percent support Alarcon. During the campaign, Alarcon had been hit with a major controversy: the longtime politician......

Proposition 38, the tax-hike initiative that sought to raise billions to better fund K-12 public schools in California, is facing major opposition in early returns and absentee balloting. According to the California secretary of state web site, voters are heavily against the initiative by 74 percent. Twenty-five percent of voters......

Governor Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 is not faring well, with the secretary of state web site showing that voters oppose the initiative by 51 percent. Forty-eight percent of voters support Prop. 30. For weeks, polls showed that support among likely voters for the tax-hike initiative had steadily dropped. Proposition 30......

For the past few months, multi-millionaire and Pasadena civil rights attorney Molly Munger has been a thorn in the side of Governor Jerry Brown -- Munger's Proposition 38 may act as a spoiler for Brown's Proposition 30. But the governor has also been battling another wealthy Munger -- Molly's brother,......

You can't say Molly Munger didn't put everything she could into the Proposition 38 campaign, especially when it comes to money. The Pasadena civil rights attorney, according to votersedge.org, contributed $44.1 million to Prop. 38, which seeks to improve funding for K-12 public schools through a state income tax hike......

We always know we're sounding the right notes on a story when a politician and her "friends" start crying foul in such an over-the-top way that it makes us laugh out loud. Such is the case with California Asseblywoman Betsy Butler, who's running for Assembly District 50 in a tight......

The Field Poll released its latest report on Thursday, and it's looking bad for both Governor Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 and civil rights attorney Molly Munger's Proposition 38 -- especially Prop. 38. With less than a week until Election Day on Nov. 6, according to the Field Poll, likely voters......