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MADISON, Wis. – The Republican Party of Wisconsin is offering a big welcome to ultra-liberal presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for his Badger State sojourn. The socialist Vermont U.S. senator who is making presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton increasingly nervous takes his wealth redistribution to Madison Wednesday evening. Some 10,000 people are expected to be in attendance, according to published reports. RPW has placed billboards around the state “welcoming” Sanders, and the party has launched a microsite highlighting the “extreme” positions that Sanders – and now Hillary Clinton – have embraced. Superimposing Sanders’ and Clinton’s heads on the bodies of...

There's still no love lost between Supervisor Chris Daly and Mayor Gavin Newsom. Daly, making a guest appearance Monday at the Board of Supervisors' public safety committee to support Supervisor David Campos' amendment to the city's sanctuary ordinance, said Newsom should be "held accountable" for releasing a confidential legal memo that said Campos' amendment violated federal law and would invite a legal challenge to the entire sanctuary policy. Daly downplayed the memo, saying it outlines a worst-case scenario and "exaggerates the legal risk involved." But he also said Newsom had provided a road map to anyone looking to challenge the...

Although Democrats enjoy strong majorities in both legislative houses and California's congressional delegation - and hold all but two statewide offices - the left wing of the party is quite displeased, especially about cuts in health, welfare and education services to close a state budget deficit. So what does the left want? . . . Dante Atkins posted a rough transcript of the discussion by Dave Daye, Jean Ross, Robert Cruickshank and Kai Stinchcombe on the Calitics website, available here.

San Francisco voters may be confused about robo-calls and mailers from the San Francisco Democratic Club which endorse the exact opposite slate of candidates and measures that the San Francisco Democratic Party endorsed over the summer. Here's the story: The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, newly chaired by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, met in August to make its city endorsements. The group gave the nod to the most liberal candidates for supervisor and to some controversial measures including decriminalizing prostitution and embracing public power. Some Democrats were none too pleased and formed their own group called the San Francisco Democratic...

The One/The Other One '08

Obama and Clinton chat before boarding a plane at Ronald Reagan National Airport...

San Francisco is a funny place. Everybody says that and nobody laughs. The issue of Propositions F and G in next month's election is a perfect example. If Proposition G passes, the groundwork will be laid to turn the huge abandoned Hunters Point Shipyard into 10,000 houses. A public housing project could be rebuilt, and toxic hot spots will be cleaned up. Some 300 acres of parks and open spaces are planned, in addition to the possibility of a new NFL stadium for the 49ers.If Proposition F passes, the developer has said it couldn't afford to do the project because...

It’s not uncommon, at least in some Democratic circles, to ponder the possibilities of a joint presidential ticket of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. And in most conversations, the names are listed in precisely that order. But when that question is raised on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, Senator Obama asks for a bit of clarity. “That would be a powerful ticket,” Mr. Letterman says of the two senators. “Undeniably that would be a powerful ticket.” Mr. Obama replies: “Which order are we talking about?”

The possibility that a potential Democratic presidential primary matchup between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could lead to a Clinton-Obama ticket is raising concerns in GOP circles that it might be unbeatable. While Democratic strategists are more skeptical of the success of a ticket composed of two minorities, some Republican advisers to the White House and leading 2008 hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani see the ticket as an easy winner built on the enthusiasm it would generate in Democratic circles.Their theory is that Clinton would stand a good chance to pick up the states that Sen....

Joe Lieberman is set to lose his primary election for his US Senate seat on Tuesday. The moderate Democrat is not liberal enough for the Democratic Party in the dark blue state of Connecticut. They want an anti-war liberal and they feel they have that in Ned Lamont. James Joyner points out that some are so giddy they believe that a loss in the primaries for Lieberman will move the part on the offensive and they will run on an anti-war, anti-Bush platform by looking at the front page of Sunday's Washington Post. Dan Balz of the Post takes the...

OAKLAND -- An ebullient Mayor-elect Ron Dellums today embraced voters' endorsement of his vision to make the city a model, saying he will soon set up citizen groups to help him deal with the city's public schools, crime, economic development and other issues when he takes office Jan. 1. "It is a responsibility I accept with honor, humility and optimism," the progressive former congressman, 70, said at a news conference that was his first public appearance since the June 6 election. "We can solve the problems of Oakland. We can be a great city." His chief opponent in the race...

Jun. 8, 2006 at 11:24AM New York, Jun. 8 (UPI) — A poll of New York residents about a presidential face-off finds Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Vice President Al Gore in a dead heat. However, in a Senate race, the Newsday/NY1 statewide poll says Mrs. Clinton will win hands down, beating her Republican opponents by more than 30 points. The poll of 1,463 registered voters was done by Blum & Weprin Associates in the past week, Newsday reported. The report said the poll numbers showed voter support to Clinton in the Senate race did not automatically pass...

A labor advocate who has recently taken on Wal-Mart plans to run against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, and is basing his campaign on her past support for the war in Iraq. The advocate, Jonathan Tasini, said he has already had expressions of support from Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar protester who lost her son in the war and who camped for weeks outside President Bush's Texas ranch demanding to meet him. "Senator Clinton is out of step with the values of a majority of New Yorkers," Mr. Tasini said in explaining his decision...