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A day after Meg Whitman won the Republican primary for governor, Democratic nominee Jerry Brown kicked off his general-election campaign by mocking his wealthy rival's lavish campaign spending and her history as chief executive of EBay.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California called for eliminating California’s welfare-to-work program, one of the deep cuts he proposed to close a $19 billion budget deficit in the coming fiscal year.

California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) wrote her campaign another check for $20 million Monday. The billionaire former CEO of EBay has now put $59 million of her own money into the campaign, with election day still seven months away.

Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown will formally announce Tuesday that he is running for governor, a job he last held nearly three decades ago, according to a source close to his campaign.

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who has poured millions of dollars into a four-month-long radio advertising campaign, is drubbing her Republican primary opponent in the California governor's race and is closing the gap against the presumed Democratic ...

Early in the Aughts, Arnold Schwarzenegger made the move from Hollywood to the office of the Governor of California. Since then he's popped up in a poofy-haired cameo in "Around the World in 80 Days" (actually filmed before Arnie's 2003 election) and filmed a small role for Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action flick, "The Expendables."

A spokesman for the governor says the matter is related to a paperwork discrepancy and has nothing to do with the payment of taxes. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a federal tax lien against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for nearly $80,000, public records show.

There was only one official Democratic candidate for governor of California, and now, officially, there is none. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — who announced last spring via Twitter that he would seek the state’s highest office in 2010 — announced Friday that he was withdrawing from the race.

Officials issued new evacuation orders this morning as a Ventura County wildfire grew to nearly 8,500 acres.

Today, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will formally announce her bid for the GOP nomination for the 2010 California gubernatorial race. Whitman wants to cut state spending by another $15 billion and create 2 million private-sector jobs by 2015, according to a speech prepared for today’s announcement in Fullerton, Calif.