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California forward Jamal Boykin (10) keeps UCLA forward Reeves Nelson (11) from scoring during a fast break during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, in Los Angeles. California won 72-58. California
Alexi Giannoulias speaks with reporters while campaigning for the Democrat party U.S. Senate seat prior to the primary election in Springfield, Ill., Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. U.S. Democratic Party
Republican members of the Legislature stand up and clap after listening to Gov. Ed Rendell criticize the length of time it took to pass last year's 101-day-late state budget as Rendell delivers his executive budget address for the fiscal year 2010-2011 to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. U.S. Republican Party
California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass D-Los Angeles, right, responds to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signing an executive order eliminating 22,000 part-time and temporary positions and ordered that 200,000 state workers receive the federal minimum wage during a news conference in her office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, July 31, 2008. Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 25: California State Attorney General Jerry Brown speaks during National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims on September 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. The rally to honor murdered loved ones and fallen law enforcement officers was organized by Justice for Murdered Children (JFMC) founder LaWanda Hawkins, whose child was murdered in 1996, and Southern California Crime Victims' organizations. Jerry Brown
Joe Konst, of Sacramento, puts chains on his car at the chain control station on Highway 50 near Twin Bridges, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Snow in the Sierra Nevada forced drivers without four-wheel drive vehicles to put on chains to cross over Echo Summit on the drive to South Lake Tahoe. Sacramento
WASHINGTON - JANUARY 27: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to both houses of Congress during his first State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on January 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. Since taking office a little over a year ago, Obama's approval ratings have dropped significantly according to recent polls. U.S. Congress
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, second from left, listens to President Barack Obama, right, during a meeting of House and Senate bipartisan leaders to discuss the economy and jobs, Tuesday, Feb. 2010, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington. From left are, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., Boehner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. and the president. Barack Obama
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa talks with reporters as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and other public officials received a briefing from local, state and federal officials on the situation in California following a series of storms that have dropped large amounts of rain, hail, snow, sometimes accompanied by near gale-force winds and tornadoes, in Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Arnold Schwarzenegger
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 16: Los Angeles Police chief Bill Bratton (L), Los Angeles councilwoman Janice Hahn (2ed L), U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (3ed L) and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa meet with community youth and families participating in the Los Angeles anti-gang program, Summer Night Lights, and the Watts Gang Task Force on July 16, 2009 in South Los Angeles, California. Earlier today Holder announced that USD500,000 in Recovery Act funds were awarded to the Support for Harbor Area Women's Lives (SHAWL) House which offers support and transitional housing services for victims of domestic violence. SHAWL is a program of the Volunteers of America of Los Angeles (VOALA). Janice Hahn
Tallulah, a chimpanzee at the San Francisco Zoo, buries her head in a box full of treats as she picks a Super Bowl winner in San Francisco on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Chimpanzees at the zoo were enticed by treats to various locations in their pen to help them choose a Super Bowl winner. San Francisco
State Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, gives a thumbs up to cast the deciding vote for passage of the state budget plan at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Maldonado provided the final vote needed to pass the spending plan that is aimed at reducing a $42 billion budget deficit. Abel Maldonado
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, right, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walk past the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, following their meeting with President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. U.S. Senate
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, right, and Haiti's President Rene Preval , second from right, greet people outside the government palace in Quito after attending a meeting of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR, in Quito, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The emergency meeting discussed the region's response to the humanitarian crisis in quake-shattered Haiti. Haiti
Middlesex County Volunteers from Massachusetts perform at a dress rehearsal for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a military music festival, in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. More than 1500 performers from Australia, The United Kingdom, Russia, China, The United States, Norway, Switzerland and more marched onto the Sydney Football Stadium for the final dress rehearsal ahead of opening night, Thursday Feb. 4, 2010. Massachusetts
House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., left, greets Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, as they arrived to testify before the committee. Ellen Tauscher
This undated photo released by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows convicted killer Gregory Powell who is facing a parole hearing 47 years after he shot and killed a Los Angeles police officer in a case made famous in the book and movie, "The Onion Field." The Los Angeles Police Protective League is opposing release of the 76-year-old prisoner who has spent most of his life behind bars. He is is due to appear before a parole board in San Luis Obispo Wednesday. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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"If you’re going to be promoted, in most circumstances you have to have outstanding performance ... Sen. Maldonado’s opinions are markedly different from most people in this state."


Pedro Nava Feb 08 2010 11:25 PM from Ventura County Star

"This is really a promotion ... And if you're going to be promoted, in most circumstances, you need to have outstanding performance. We don't have that with Senator Maldonado."


Pedro Nava Feb 08 2010 10:46 PM from KQED

"What really perturbed me is that, instead of cleaning up their act, they decided to try and change the law - to make legal what was illegal ... They went at it through the Legislature and we ultimately defeated that. And now..."


John Garamendi Feb 08 2010 4:46 AM from San Francisco Chronicle

"This has gone on since the very first Congress, and America's done rather nicely"


John Garamendi Feb 07 2010 8:15 AM from Sacramento Bee

"Oh, heavens, this is nothing compared to that"


John Garamendi Feb 07 2010 8:15 AM from Sacramento Bee

"If there are earmarks, I'll make sure my district gets its share"


John Garamendi Feb 07 2010 8:15 AM from Sacramento Bee

"His decisions aren't based on policy and altruism ... They're based more on transactional politics, which I'm fine with but don't stand up and say you're a hero. He ought to at least own up to his votes. I've been around a long..."


Charles M. Calderon Feb 05 2010 4:10 PM from Inside Bay Area

"Sen. Maldonado has been an amiable colleague in our house and has been open to the spirit of bipartisan cooperation"


Darrell Steinberg Feb 04 2010 4:23 AM from Los Angeles Times

"I want to make the lieutenant governor's office the public face for job creation"


Abel Maldonado Feb 04 2010 4:23 AM from Los Angeles Times

"I don't like those platforms"


Abel Maldonado Feb 03 2010 1:30 AM from KQED
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