[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The California Supreme Court today just overturned California's ban on mariage equality. CMR will have more later, but this means California will be the second state in the nation to allow all couples the right to marry.

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CMR will have more later. Here's the transcript:

"Like all of you, I've been worried a lot about the economy - falling home prices, rising gas prices -- and how hard it's getting for people to find a job.
I've talked with both Treasurer Lockyer and Controller Chiang about the state's cash situation -- and the need to do everything we can to reach an agreement on the budget.

A long stalemate is the last thing we need. Without a budget - we run out of cash - the richest state in America gone broke!

We won't be paying our bills - and we won't be giving our schools, our emergency rooms and our police the resources they need.

There's more...

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The American Leadership Project, the Pro-Hillary Clinton 527 that CMR publishers Roger Salazar and Jason Kinney are affiliated with, is devoting at least $300,000 to an ad buy in Pennsylvania, Politico.com reports. They spent $500,000 in Texas during the crucial final days of her successful campaign in the state -- a campaign, incidentally, managed in the Lone Star State by CMR contributor Ace Smith. Not that we're counting. David Axelrod is cool too, and more than welcome to make a guest post anytime he likes.

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There are re-ports that several leading California Democrats are behind a new advocacy group campaign that's set to run in Ohio. We'll have more soon (since two of the three publishers of CMR apparently are behind it), but in the interim, here's the positive video that's up on YouTube.

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CMR's Steven Maviglio and Kevin Eckery (he works for the other team) discussed today's election yesterday on KCRA, Sacramento's NBC affiliate.

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Since it's cinema day here at CMR, here's Senator Barack Obama's first television ad in California.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Confirming CMR's exclusive report from earlier this week, the Associated Press is now reporting that Congressman John Doolittle will announce his retirement today in Roseville.

This is obviously bad news for the Charlie Brown campaign, as the ethics-challenged Doolittle was almost certainly poised for defeat were he to survive his primary. Nevertheless, Brown has been up and down the 4th Congressional District for years now, and has strong grassroots support even among many Republican voters. Making a donation today to the Brown campaign would send a clear signal to the pundit types that this seat is still worth watching.