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Three state senators called Wednesday for the ouster of University of California President Robert Dynes over a pay-perk controversy that has roiled the prestigious public research institution. Sens. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, and Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, called on Dynes to resign at a news conference in Sacramento. In a related move, Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced, called UC Regents Chairman Gerald Parsky and asked him to fire Dynes. ``Dynes still doesn't get it,'' Denham said in a statement. ``While at times, he has been a good cheerleader for the UC, he has been a horrible manager. He seems to think...

Federal prosecutors want financial records on incoming state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and several of his relatives and closest associates, according to a subpoena issued in a federal grand jury probe into possible public corruption. One such subpoena -- obtained by the Oakland Tribune on condition that the recipient remain anonymous -- names Perata, D-Oakland; his son, Nick Perata of Oakland; his daughter, Rebecca Perata-Rosati, and his son-in-law, Michael Rosati, both of Alameda; his former aide, Oakland lobbyist Lily Hu; political consultant Sandra Polka; Perata's friend and sometime business partner Timothy Staples of Sacramento; and several of these...

From NM: 'We are undeterred' Some senators raise possibility of returning for difficult filibuster 10:19 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Democrats who fled Texas to block efforts to boost Republican power in Congress said Wednesday that they intend to fight on, despite a defection that could hand the GOP a legislative victory on redistricting. "We are undeterred," said Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso. "We will take this fight to any arena, at any place, at any time to protect voting rights ... and our...

Absent Democrats sharpen rhetoric against Perry, Dewhurst Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democrats boycotting the Texas Senate over congressional redistricting lashed out against the state's Republican leadership Friday who have gone to the Texas Supreme Court to try to compel the Democrats back to the Capitol. The court action by Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on Thursday "signals another hostile act in an escalating war on the constitutional rights of Hispanics and African Americans in the state of Texas," said Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso. Dewhurst has said the Democrats gave him no other option. "We...