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April 3, 2013 By Alex Vassar

Big Daddy’s Vacation Photos

We don’t see new pictures like this very often… these vacation photos were taken on a trip that Speaker Jesse Unruh (also known as “Big Daddy”) took to Japan. These photos were included in a collection of items recently donated by the estate of Senator Leroy F. Greene.   Unruh inspects pearl necklaces at an […]

Filed Under: Constitutional Officers, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: Assembly Speaker, Big Daddy, California, history, Jesse Unruh, Leroy Greene, Speaker Unruh, State Assembly, Treasurer

March 31, 2013 By Alex Vassar

SD-16 and AD-80 candidates set

The Secretary of State will be releasing the official list of qualified candidates for the SD-16 and AD-80 Special Elections on April 2, but the Notice to Candidates (an early list of candidates that’s almost always identical to the qualified candidates list) came out late last week. The candidates are: Senate District 16 Mohammad Arif […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Assembly, State Senate Tagged With: AD-80, Ben Hueso, Michael Rubio, SD-16, Special Election

March 31, 2013 By Alex Vassar

Henry Crabb’s Spring Break Visit to Sunny Mexico!

With warm beaches, cold cerveza, and a fantastic exchange rate, Mexico has been the obvious Spring Break choice for college students for at least a decade or two. In recent years, the ongoing war between drug cartels and the federal government has made California’s southern neighbor a dangerous place. That was actually a terrible introduction […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Political Parties, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: Battle of Caborca, Caborca, Geneva Convention, Henry A. Crabb, Heroica, massacra, Mexico, US-Mexico Relations, Whig Party

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