Archive: Campaign 2016

Some observations, plus a weekly dose of media and politics notes.

There's no surprise that Attorney General Kamala Harris was elected to succeed Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate. The news is that California voters also approved legal marijuana, kept the...

Queuing to vote across LA, Trump's last stand, and why the sports department hates election night.

Gigantic Frank Gehry project on Sunset Boulevard approved. Kudos for LAT's Sea Breeze investigation. Notes on Campaign 2016, 2017 and 2018. And more.

LA Times investigations afflict the powerful. LA's homeless shame. Notes on media, politics and place.

LA Times loses a top Hollywood voice. Dodgers go home. More Trump and Clinton notes.

Because there's more going on than Donald Trump's get-even war on America.

First time the f-word got in print since 1998, the paper says. The explainer is less revealing about the Trump tapes landing on Saturday's page 10.

Los Angeles can breathe again. The day no one wanted to come has passed.

Everywhere else the election is the main story, but here it's also about Vin Scully.

Hillary Clinton's pneumonia takes her out of California to start the week. Inside the gentrification of Grand Central Market. More media, politics and place.

The Secretary of State gave Joe Shammas a certificate saying he finished second to Rep. Tony Cardenas. Then he took it away.

Villaraigosa talked down speculation that he might end the week as chair of the Democratic National Committee.

"Don’t use your social media feed to pan or praise candidates, parties or their positions," a memo from the managing editor reminds reporters.

It's Kathryn Barger and Darrell Park in the 5th district.

The demise of KPFK's "Deadline LA" media analysis show was greatly exaggerated.

There's nothing going on, but the trick is to make it look like there is for a few days.

Trump adds the very mainstream Post to the list of neutral orgs he doesn't want covering him.

Cherry picking of some results that stand out from the others.

$1 billion effort with the Republican National Committee kicks off here May 25.

We have a very beautiful state here. Absolutely beautiful.

Old friend of LA Observed Steve Greenberg offers up this take on Ted Cruz and his new running mate.

The time was 1972. Sanders says, "I would never vote for a bum like that!”

Assemblyman Roger Hernandez is accused of domestic abuse by his wife, a Baldwin Park City Council member.

There's good news and bad news for Westside drivers in the president's schedule of fundraiser appearances this trip.

The first liberal 4-1 majority looks almost certain after this year's elections.

Women really, really detest the Republican frontrunner, who polls worse than Dick Cheney or George H.W. Bush at their lowest.

The California primary on June 7 is very much in play for Republicans.

With his convictions overturned on appeal, Alarcon says he is a candidate for Congress in the Valley.

Anthony Rendon becomes Speaker, Trump trouble in Silicon Valley, candidate trouble for the Democrats in Simi Valley and more.

On its first day under a new publisher, though I don't know if it mattered, the Los Angeles Times editorial board used very strong rhetoric in an editorial blasting...

Trump's first test with actual voters falls short. Not a great result for Hillary Clinton either.

Three stops including San Gabriel and at the Jim Henson studios on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.

In the end he did endorse Clinton, but it took the mayor's staff a while to get there.

At least 18 reporters on Hillary Clinton are women. "No one can remember a political press corps this heavily female," says Politico.

Gregory Caruso was the unflinching young guy sitting just left of Jake Tapper and creating a lot of social media buzz.

Essential Politics so far looks as if it will aggregate Times coverage of the presidential campaign and other politics news, with some narrative and analysis tying items together.

The Republican who goes back to the original community college board in LA wants to follow 36 years on the Board of Supervisors with a term on the state Senate.

At $100, it’s the hottest little ticket among Hollywood Democrats because it gives them a first chance to see the former mayor's new Hollywood Hills pad.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is looking for another home, while conservative opinionist Jonah Goldberg calls out Trump for damaging the Republican Party.

The LAPD's street closure guidance for today and Friday stretches from Pacific Palisades to Pasadena and Highland Park.

Obama gets here mid-afternoon Thursday and Clinton has at least three local fundraisers the next day.

Sure, you don't care and nobody you know in LA cares, but Page Six and Politico do care what Finke thinks about the presidential derby and who she has voted for.

Obama heads over to Tyler Perry's place for a June 18 fundraiser, and Clinton stops in at Tobey Maguire's the next day.

Sanchez is running. Brown and Napolitano make up. A good point about almonds and water. Another LATimesman leaves for political PR. And more.

Nice one-day haul for the Democratic candidate, but she's also in the spotlight for agreeing to take money from even bigger donors.

The LA Times has tapped Washington bureau chief David Lauter to run the presidential campaign coverage. Read the memo.

So somebody else did. Screen grab from CarlyFiorina.org.

Hollywood checks are the main target, of course, with an evening reception hosted by Haim Saban and Casey Wasserman.

Garcetti has his night, but was anybody listening. Is Hollywood divided on Clinton or what? Politico to launch California Playbook.

There's been some shuffling in the lineup of political advisers to the stars and big donors. And a new candidate for the Board of Supervisors.

Will the former mayor aim for governor in 2018 — or have we seen the last of Antonio Villaraigosa the candidate? Who will dare run against Kamala Harris?

For many Hollywood Democrats, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is apparently their number two choice for president in 2016, after Hillary Clinton. He was in Brentwood Thursday night for a fundraiser.