SF News Kamala Harris Gets Obama's Endorsement In US Senate Race In a move that should surprise no one, President Barack Obama has endorsed California Attorney General Kamala Harris in her campaign to become the state's next US senator. In a statement sent to
SF News Tight District 11 State Senate Race Gets Tighter, As Kim Surpasses Wiener In SF A race that's already known as the most expensive District 11 Senate matchup ever might soon gain another remarkable element, as one of the tightest in recent memory. The day after the June
SF News Kamala Harris Will Go After Boxer's Senate Seat California's newly reelected Attorney General and former SF District Attorney Kamala Harris will, as predicted, be vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. She has succeeded in brokering
SF News California Senate Votes To Suspend Leland Yee The California Senate voted 28-1 Friday to suspend troubled San Francisco and San Mateo County Senator Leland Yee from his duties. (Sen. Joel Anderson was the only no vote.) Charges against Yee include
SF News DiFi Totally Pissed That The CIA Was Spying On Her Committee California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, has come out swinging over an ongoing, years-long conflict her committee has been having with the CIA over their attempts to oversee and
SF News John McCain Thinks Apple CEO Tim Cook Is A Genius Bar Employee During yesterday's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing with Apple -- accused of avoiding taxes upwards of $74 billion -- Senator John McCain used the Q&A session with CEO Tim Cook
SF News Feinstein Fires Back At Junior Tea Party Senator: 'I'm Not A Sixth Grader' In a heated debate today in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed assault weapons ban authored by Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California lashed back at newly elected senator Ted
SF News Congratulations, New York! Two years after the New York State Senate strongly rejected gay marriage, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced passage of the Marriage Equality Act today by a margin of 33 to 29,
SF News Senate Moves Forward to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' The Senate today "voted to advance legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops known as 'don't ask, don't tell.' " That is to say, the ban on openly gays
SF News Another Supreme Court Justice Retiring Well, folks, it's been in the cards for a while, and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, at the ripe old age of 89, is finally throwing in the towel this summer, setting
SF News Health Care Bill Clears Hurdle in Senate, No Thanks to Olympia Snowe Yes, everyone! It's the big news this pre-Xmas Monday morning. The U.S. Senate wanted to give everyone a present this week, and in the wee hours of this morning a whopping 60
SF News Anti-Abortion Protester Interrupts Sonia Sotomayor Hearing During opening remarks by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor this morning, an anti-abortion protester stood up, shouted something about genocide and the unborn, and was
SF News BREAKING: Al Franken Wins Senate Seat The Minnesota Supreme Court has just declared, in a 32-page unanimous decision, that Al Franken won the state's seat in the U.S. Senate in the contested November election against Republican Norm Coleman.
SF News The Jesse Helms HIV/AIDS Bill? We don't think there are many people who would consider politicians as containing much in the way of a sense of humor or any sense of irony, but in an awesome move of
SF News Who Worked "Change" and the Arms-Crossed Look Better: Leno or Migden? Mark Leno and Carole Migden, please step forward. For their final photos, Leno and Migden chose to use the exact same pose message in order to win your votes in next week's California
SF News Daly to <i>SF Bay Guardian</i>: Endorse Carole Migden SF city supervisor Chris Daly penned an open letter to the folks over at SFBG today, asking them to endorse la Migden for reelection. In an exhausting race for State Senator, over the
SF News Saturday, Saturday, Saturday: Migden vs. Leno Rematch For those of you somehow not tempted into becoming a part of Van Santian art -- or, you know, if you sport a vagina -- might we suggest catching round II of the
