About 20 members of Occupy Petaluma gathered recently with Mayor David Glass and Vice Mayor Tiffany Renée at the home of Wendy Booth, a Petaluma woman struggling to keep her home. They beamed at cameras as Booth hammered a gray and white sign reading “Fo

LOS ANGELES » California's congressional delegation, the largest and most influential in the nation, is undergoing a major upheaval, the result of reapportionment and retirements, threatening the state's influence in Washington next year and forcing memb

Lynn Woolsey spent the day after her election to Congress in 1992 receiving flowers and phone calls from supporters. A North Coast congressional seat held by liberal Democratic women for the past 30 years is up for grabs this year, with at least five men

The GOP could just as well send me requests for donations. And I'd be as likely to give to them as I am to EMILY's List. In fact, whenever anyone sends me any news about an EMILY's List endorsement, the first thing I do is reply with this post from Augus

In 2010 Nick Ruiz ran as a Green Party write-in candidate in a central Florida district with a reactionary Democratic incumbent, Suzanne Kosmas, and an insane teabagger challenger, Sandy Adams. Nick didn't really expect to win but he very much wanted to

Rep. Heath Shuler, a co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition, is the latest Democratic agitator to announce he will not seek another term. Some of the most combative House Democrats will be gone from the chamber next year, leaving the Caucus without its mo