SACRAMENTO The top candidates for lieutenant governor disagreed on government spending, health insurance, abortion and several other issues Saturday in a sometimes biting debate that demonstrated sharp differences in their philosophies. Republican Tom McClintock cast the election as a choice between someone who would work to cut taxes and regulations that are "crushing California" and someone who would support increasing them. "I believe firmly that we've got to reduce the taxes and regulations that are crushing our families, that we've got to restore fiscal integrity to California," he told several hundred people at a forum sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander...
