SF Chronicle's Lochhead Hits Republicans Over Pay Rate for Lawyer Defe

Ken Shepherd
April 19th, 2011 5:17 PM
As part of its effort to "shore up" the backing of social conservatives, House Republicans today "issued a contract today to pay former Solicitor General Paul Clement $575 an hour, up to $500,000 to defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act," San Francisco Chronicle's Carolyn Lochhead insisted in the paper's Politics Blog. "Republicans claim they will take the money out of the Justice…
 

SF Chronicle Hails 'Obama's Centrist Approach' to Budget

Ken Shepherd
April 13th, 2011 5:53 PM
"Obama aims for the middle on taxes and spending." That's the headline the San Francisco Chronicle gave Washington bureau staffer Carolyn Lochhead's write-up this afternoon following President Obama's "belated embrace of his commission's recommendation to cut $4 trillion in deficits over the next 12 years." "Even as he reached back to his 2008 campaign lodestar with a reference to Abraham…