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...Republicans conceded the Democrats were likely to add perhaps five seats to the 22 they already held. In 'act, the Democrats gained six, unexpectedly taking the Northern California seat that had been held for ten terms by Don Clausen, 59. Clausen lost to 36-year-old State Assemblyman Douglas Bosco, who was a congressional page when Clausen arrived in Washington in 1963. Bosco hammered away at unemployment in the district's dominant lumber industry, while a group opposed to atomic weapons heavily publicized Clausen's vote against a nuclear-freeze resolution that lost in the House...
...rival, who served 16 years as a California assemblyman and state senator before his 1978 election as attorney general, insists that crime is the issue that voters care most about, despite opinion polls ranking unemployment first. Deukmejian, 54, portrays himself as the law-and-order candidate and reminds voters that he wrote the state's tough "use a gun: go to prison" statute. He has tried, with little success, to identify his opponent with the noteworthy outgoing Governor. Charges Deukmejian: "Tom Bradley endorses the same policies, has the same friends and would follow the same tactics in Sacramento...
Office furnishings are a sizable cut above government issue. The office wing of the capitol in Sacramento is undergoing a $3 million sprucing up. That refurbishing will not encompass Assemblyman Walter Ingalls' principal office, which is outside the capitol. But that outside office is by no means shabby: at taxpayers' expense, Ingalls recently spent $8,000 for wallpaper, $10,000 for carpeting and $16,000 for furniture. His is not an extreme case. After installing new blue carpeting in his office, another legislator tossed out his set of California statute books in red bindings and ordered...
...legislators revel in the luxury. Last June, Senator Ollie Speraw proposed a bill that would have limited the increase in the legislators' own budget to 7%. He was shouted down. Says one of his few allies, Assemblyman William Filante: "Waste is the main problem in the state's budget crunch. The important thing is the attitude of the legislators: arrogance...
...expounds the latest theories on asthma; young Roosevelt's matriculation at Harvard is the occasion for an evocative set piece on undergraduate life in the 1870s; after the graduate becomes a New York assemblyman at the age of 23, McCullough weaves in a marvelous little essay on Tammany-style logrolling...