Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle has a net worth of roughly $1.2 million, but stands to gain income later in his life from a family trust worth an estimated $600 million, according to financial disclosure forms released by his office Friday. Quayle’s largest personal asset is his home in McLean, Va., a wealthy … Read more
Developer and reality-show star Donald Trump added a touch of glitz and hubris to the CPAC conference Thursday, making a surprise and somewhat surreal appearance to tell the crowd that he still has not decided whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. “This country is in serious trouble,” Trump said. He said … Read more
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren talk during a break in the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday in Atlanta. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images) Things were different, but little has changed. Beto O’Rourke is out. Deval Patrick is in. Michael R. Bloomberg lurks in the wings. And yet once … Read more
California lawmakers just lived through a bizarre and stressful year of man-made energy shortages, blackouts and billion-dollar utility bankruptcies. Now comes budget mayhem. In an election year, no less. As legislators take down their Christmas trees and flock back to the Capitol for the start of the 2002 lawmaking session Monday, they are being greeted … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivers a keynote speech in February. (John Amis / Associated Press) The Supreme Court said Monday that police do not have a broad authority to enter a home to check on someone who may be suicidal and then search and seize evidence that may be used against the person. In … Read more
It’s time for some real talk about Real ID. That’s the perennial legislation from state Sen. Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) to permit illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The latest version, SB 60, was approved by the Senate this week and now heads to the Assembly, where it is almost certain to pass. Then Gov. … Read more
Asylum seekers from Ecuador, Guatemala and Colombia prepare to be detained by Border Patrol after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Unlawful border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to a four-year low, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with 46,610 people stopped between ports of entry … Read more
Democratic politics is inherently fairer than a totalitarian system, but it is not necessarily cleaner. Democratic states everywhere have had to amend their systems in response to campaign-financing scandals that threatened to undermine public confidence in the election process–and thus in government itself. Viewed from this global perspective, the City of Los Angeles was right … Read more
As President Clinton campaigned through California on a 24-hour visit in which he raised $4.5 million for the Democratic Party, White House officials scrambled to deal with questions about why they will not release the president’s full medical records. At a campaign stop in Ohio on Thursday, Bob Dole’s chief spokesman hinted darkly that president … Read more
Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village), left, and her GOP rival, Matt Jacobs are vying to represent California’s 26th Congressional District. (Associated Press/Cliff Owen) 1 The race in California’s 26th Congressional District, mostly based in Ventura County but with a sliver of Los Angeles County, features veteran Democratic lawmaker Julia Brownley facing off with former federal … Read more
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