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Slap & Tickle: The best and worst of the week in California politics

Minimum-wage earners–Re-election politics be damned. Democrats join hands
with the guv to raise the state’s minimum wage to $8 per hour.

Tractor drivers–While they were busy crashing a Schwarzenegger campaign
event to protest the “tractor tax,” two Schwarzenegger-hired tractor drivers
received tickets from the CHP.

Kevin Murray–A last-minute attempt to extend Bill Burke’s term as chairman
of the regional air board is back

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