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	<title>CT Politics &#187; jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</title>
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		<title>Awkward questions Michelle Obama can ask Tim Cook at the State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/02/12/awkward-questions-michelle-obama-can-ask-tim-cook-at-the-state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[$137 billion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iwatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apple will be in the house again at Tuesday’s State of the Union — the house being First Lady Michelle Obama’s luxury suite. This time, it will be Apple CEO Tim Cook getting the prime seat, just as Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs got the golden ticket in 2012. Now the First Lady is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club to engage in civil disobedience for first time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Brune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susie Tompkins Buell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How hot is the controversial Keystone Pipeline controversy getting? The Sierra Club is — for the first time in its history — going to engage in civil disobedience on Feb. 17 in Washington, D.C., which is also a day that greenies predict will be “the largest climate rally in history.” With Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s second Inaugural funded by big corporate donors; less transparent</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/21/obama%e2%80%99s-second-inaugural-funded-by-big-corporate-donors-less-transparent/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/21/obama%e2%80%99s-second-inaugural-funded-by-big-corporate-donors-less-transparent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[big money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunlight Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inauguration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, President Obama banned corporate and union donations from funding his first Inauguration. Not this time. This time, the man who railed on how Citizens United would “open the floodgates for special interests” by allowing unlimited contributions from corporations and “America’s most powerful interests” ….is accepting unlimited donations to his inaugural committee from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporations may be like people, too, sez SEC</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/16/corporations-may-be-like-people-too-sez-sec/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/16/corporations-may-be-like-people-too-sez-sec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting stuff going down at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering a requirement to force publicly traded companies to disclose political contributions. Whoa! That could be huge. But at the front of the Ticked-Off Line are trade associations like the U.S. Chamber, which dropped $30 milllllllllllllllllllllllion last year on campaigns to beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans ALREADY targeting Ami Bera, John Garamendi for 2014</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/16/republicans-already-targeting-ami-bera-john-garamendi-for-2014/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/16/republicans-already-targeting-ami-bera-john-garamendi-for-2014/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ami Bera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Costa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Brownley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lois Capps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Republican Congressional Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRCC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the continuous campaign, where the fundraising and politicking never stops. That’s why the National Republican Congressional Committee just rolled out their list of 40 targeted seats for 2014 — it’s never too early to start shopping for Christmas — and on it are Northern California Democratic Reps. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Translating Jerry Brown: “You cut the good, which in many respects is a bad.”</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/15/translating-jerry-brown-%e2%80%9cyou-cut-the-good-which-in-many-respects-is-a-bad-%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/15/translating-jerry-brown-%e2%80%9cyou-cut-the-good-which-in-many-respects-is-a-bad-%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guv Jerry Brown eschewed the national spotlight for most of the first two years of Jerry 2.0. It’s The New Jerry Thing. But he’s is taking a victory lap of sorts Tuesday night on the PBS NewsHour, talking up how he balanced California’s budget. “It’s fixed,” he tells PBS NewsHour correspondent and producer Spencer Michels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Brulte: Will take CA GOP 6 years to rebound</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/14/jim-brulte-will-take-ca-gop-6-years-to-rebound/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/14/jim-brulte-will-take-ca-gop-6-years-to-rebound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The worst kept secret in California politics will be revealed Monday night in San Diego when former state senator Jim Brulte officially announces his campaign to be state party chair before a gathering of the San Diego GOP. Yes, we know we told you about all this weeks ago. The chair election will be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House drug czar: We’re having a “serious conversation” about pot</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/08/white-house-drug-czar-we%e2%80%99re-having-a-%e2%80%9cserious-conversation%e2%80%9d-about-pot/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/08/white-house-drug-czar-we%e2%80%99re-having-a-%e2%80%9cserious-conversation%e2%80%9d-about-pot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gil Kerlikowske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana legalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are, according to the White House drug czar as of Tuesday afternoon, “in the midst of a serious national conversation about marijuana.” Whoa. That’s huge coming from the White House. Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said that Tuesday in response to three online petitions asking the White House about marijuana legalization. Using the words “serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grab your flag: Gun Appreciation Day is coming</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/07/grab-your-flag-gun-appreciation-day-is-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/07/grab-your-flag-gun-appreciation-day-is-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns; Gun Appreciation Day; Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendar. On Jan. 19, two days before President Obama is inaugurated and a day before Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to introduce an assault weapons ban, a Gun Appreciation Day has been called in the U.S. Organizers are asking folks to go into their local gun shop and wave a flag or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So will Obama appoint any women to his second term Cabinet?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/07/so-will-obama-appoint-any-women-to-his-second-term-cabinet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/01/07/so-will-obama-appoint-any-women-to-his-second-term-cabinet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com (Joe Garofoli)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama; diversity; women; Cabinet; Chuck Hagel; Jack Lew;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Word is leaking that Jack Lew — currently President Obama’s Chief of Staff — is going to get the Treasury Secretary nod, a development that’s been rumored for weeks. So let’s pause and review how Obama’s second term Cabinet is shaping up. There’s Sen. John Kerry at State, ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel at Defense, John Brennan [...]]]></description>
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