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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member known for using extreme rhetoric against Republicans, sent President Joe Biden a letter on the July 4th weekend comparing him to a “tiring baseball pitcher” The letter, which the New York Times reported Thursday, is a public rebuke from a former ally of Biden, who refuses to bow out of the presidential race. Most calls for Biden to step aside from top congressional Democrats have been via leaks to the media. In Raskin’s case, the congressman confirmed he sent the letter. “I wrote that letter to the president over the Fourth of July weekend,”...

Tuesday's special election marked the sixth time California voters have gone to the polls since the March 2002 primary election. That meant it was the sixth go-round of endless television commercials, campaign mailers — and trying to grasp the true meaning and impact of a plethora of ballot initiatives. Instead of patting themselves on the back for surviving such an onslaught, voters get to do it two more times next year. As much as they might like to, voters can't ignore the 2006 primary and general elections because important issues loom. There's a governor's race, as well as congressional and...

Mar. 2 (ABC7) — The governor clearly wants a special legislative session to consider three major government reform ideas. A one-man lobbying campaign is now underway targeting the voters, even as Democratic critics say his reforms won't reform much. The governor stopped in Hayward to push his latest reform agenda, carrying out his promise to take his message to the people. Some are beginning to question his use of staged events to make his point. The governor's Hollywood gimmicks are nothing new, and are most often his own ideas. His newest gimmick rolled out yesterday: a Humvee dubbed "Reform One."...

<p>THERE WAS a time when Democrats were in control of the House and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, was well regarded for his command of health and tax issues.</p> <p>Today, the Republicans rule the House and Stark is mostly known as a back bencher who can't control his tongue.</p>