SACRAMENTO - The state Senate on Thursday confirmed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pick for California lieutenant governor, as lawmakers cast the vote as a test of whether a Legislature that has fallen ...

Most governors wouldn't dream of leaving the state in the midst of what promises to be the longest and worst budget crisis in California. Most wouldn't dare leave at the height of bill-signing season.

There's no more pointless spectacle in California politics than Lt. Gov Abel Maldonado's campaign tour in a bus that says "Jobs Jobs Jobs." There is a serious debate about whether a governor of ...

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California Republican congressional candidate Abel Maldonado Jr. raised $35,500 for a state re-election race on the same day as a party in his honor that his family’s business later claimed as a ...

Former state Sen. Abel Maldonado answers questions during a 'Meet the Candidates' forum put on by the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce at Grace Church in August 2012. The Tribune The Western United ...