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With less than a week to go until Tuesday’s primary, Democratic Attorney General candidate Chris Kelly dropped another $2.45 million into his campaign on Wednesday, bringing his total personal outlay to $9.6 million — half again as much as his opponents have spent combined.

The campaigns for Insurance Commissioner nominations are getting drowned out by the bigger races at the top of the primary ticket.

A bit of friction between Kamala Harris and Chris Kelly livens up the race for the Democratic attorney general nomination.

PG&E has spent hit $44 million after a sudden infusion of cash — $9.5 million over the past few days — that the folks at Capitol Weekly read as evidence that PG&E’s polling suggests voters aren’t buying the campaign.

The charge the oil company with a “disdain for safety and environmental laws” that has “tagged” BP “as an unsafe company and gross polluter.”

Corporate interests drop a ton of money to keep their critics from gaining party nominations for legislative seats.

Mercury Insurance is dominant backer of a measure to slap surcharges on customers who let coverage lapse. Can you buy a law in California?