And why has it suddenly dumped more than $100,000 into an "independent" expenditure on behalf of Rick Bosetti's Assembly campaign (per Cal-Access records). Me, I don't know -- but that's a lot of money for a "cable buy" just over...

Ryann Bosetti is the 31-year-old daughter of Rick Bosetti. She's a highly regarded Portland-based hairstylist who also writes, blogs, travels a lot, directs music videos and makes bands like Yacht look cool. Here's a video for which she got hair...

Rick Bosetti filed a complaint on Monday with the state's election watchdog agency alleging fellow Republican 1st District Assembly candidate Brian Dahle violated campaign finance reporting requirements by hiding more than $80,000 in campaign donations.

Shasta County Supervisor Les Baugh has styled himself the "grass roots" candidate for state Senate, going up against the political establishment in the form of Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Gaines.

With candidate rosters final for the open 1st Assembly District race as of last week, the Redding Tea Party got straight to holding the first debate with all five candidates at the same table tonight. The Tea Party runs its...

Redding's Rick Bosetti, in his campaign for state Assembly, is hoping to run up a strong vote in Shasta County, which has almost half the district's population. Oddly enough, though, he can't even land the endorsement of his hometown Republican...

A Lassen County supervisor will challenge a slate of candidates, including Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti, for the 1st District Assembly seat.

It's not unusual for sports and politics to become intertwined.

It wasn't just Les Baugh who picked up the Shasta County Republican Assembly's endorsement last week. Chapter President Tyler Clifford informs me that the group also endorsed Pete Stiglich for Congress, Rick Bosetti for Assembly, Patrick Jones for Shasta County...

A Siskiyou County supervisor says he's mulling jumping into the Assembly race against Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti, the only Republican candidate to have officially declared in the newly drawn 1st Assembly District.

I haven't verified this stuff myself, but Jon Fleischman is a plugged-in Republican, and here's his description of the "north state kabuki" touched off by Rep. Wally Herger's retirement. So to recap this confusing North State kabuki dance -- Herger...

Rick Bosetti, Assembly candidate, is launching with a cannonade across the bow of incumbent Dan Logue: (Redding, Calif.) - While California continues down the path to financial ruin, Dan Logue is not hearing the cry from North State residents to...

The Redding city councilman announces an announcement: "There is no excuse for failure" (Redding, Calif.) - Redding native Rick Bosetti, a successful businessman, family man, and community leader, will announce his candidacy for the California State Assembly on Tuesday, December...

Haven't heard much from Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti since his announcement that he's seeking the new District 1 Assembly seat in next year's election, but his rival, current District 3 Assemblyman Dan Logue, is already lining up and announcing...

I suspect most north state political junkies are expecting the race for the new District 1 Assembly seat to come down to a contest between Assemblyman Dan Logue and Redding City Councilor Rick Bosetti. Funny thing, though, they don't have...

Could Francie Sullivan, elected to the Redding City Council just last fall, be the lone grizzled veteran on the council by November of next year? OK, I don't foresee Sullivan actually becoming grizzled, but her council colleague Rick Bosetti pointed...

Can Rick Bosetti win?

Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti on Thursday filed papers with the Shasta County clerk announcing his intention to run for state Assembly.

Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti today filed papers with the Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Office announcing his intention to run for state Assembly.

So reports The Washington Post, noting controversy over a U.S. Air Force ethics course that critics -- including Damon Bosetti, son of Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti -- argued was too steeped in Christianity....

Is this Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti's son who's speaking out against the Air Force's Christian-themed nuclear-weapons ethics training? Why yes it is. The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of...

It's hard to fault city officials for feeling as if the state is shaking them down like a Mafioso seeking protection money — "the Guido payment," as Redding City Councilor Rick Bosetti put it.

It's hard to fault city officials for feeling as if the state is shaking them down like a Mafioso seeking protection money — "the Guido payment," as Redding City Councilor Rick Bosetti put it.

Posted on the Redding Peace Officers' Association web site early today: Click here to see a photograph of Redding Fire Captain Shawn Plummer fighting the fire that consumed all of RFD's resources, leaving many areas in the Northstate with limited...

Click here to see a photograph of Redding Fire Captain Shawn Plummer fighting the fire that consumed all of RFD's resources, leaving many areas in the Northstate with limited or no fire protection. This is due in part to votes by Patrick H. Jones, Rick Bos

I love it when city politicians get some comeuppance; "Jones, Bosetti slam park deal" (May 24).

Compared with San Jose's mayor, Democrat Chuck Reed, the Redding city councilors whose proposed benefit changes have caused such a political storm in Redding the past couple of years look like the public employee's best friend. Check out Reed's proposed...

Details here at this baseball blog. While the item's a bit stale, my correspondent noted that today, after all, is Opening Day.......

Marc Beaucamp asks the question "And why would supposedly free-market types like Jones/Bosetti and McArthur agree to a non-compete deed restriction on the Costco property..." I think this 50 year old dissertation on political philosophy titled "Why I'm not a...

A correspondent e-mails the comment below along with a link to this Wall Street Journal story entitled "The Quest for a 'Charter City'." "Deport 'em. I make the motion that the citizens of Redding deport Jones and Bosetti in the...

If I were Patrick Jones I'd try to stay as far away as possible from anything Don Levenson-related. But Jones and his freelancing sidekick Rick Bosetti probably feel like they have no choice given the stakes in the escalating sales...

Redding will explore the idea of becoming a charter city.

Redding voters retained the fiscal conservative majority Tuesday after one of the most polarizing City Council contests in recent memory.

Rick Bosetti, Patrick Jones and Francie Sullivan led the race for three seats on the Redding City Council as of 10:19 tonight, after a second round of election night results were posted on the Shas

Press Release - For Immediate ReleaseDate: October 31, 2010Contact: Chris Darker, CEO Business ManagerPhone: 530-245-1890 / cdarker@charterinternet.comUnion Leader Says Bosetti Ad is Dishonest and HypocriticalREDDING - A union that represents several

Public workers don’t deserve scapegoatingWith more than a decade of service with modest or no raises, one city worker I know of now wears a city of Redding shirt inside-out off-duty after the logo provoked a confrontation at a school meeting. Why are workers who have given years of service to our community bei

In his latest radio spot, released a week before the election, he claims he's won the war of ideas, that "even the union candidates" agree that city employees must pay their portion of their retirement. He goes on to say...

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Workers ceded pay to win benefits Incumbent City Council candidate Rick Bosetti’s campaign is based on a half truth. He states in numerous campaign ads that the city of Redding pays the entire cost of employees’ PERS contribution, which is technically true. Only employers can make these payments. He wants yo

Boyce Muse, Redding Latest union ad is pure slander The politics of personal destruction has come to Redding, and it is the public employee unions of Redding that have brought it here. The latest radio ad stating that Councilman Rick Bosetti has diverted federal stimulus money to build a road to â

Sometimes an accusation is so far out in left field, someone has to call a foul. The latest union broadside against Redding City Councilors Rick Bosetti and Patrick Jones is way over that line.

I've been watching it for years, and I don't recall ever seeing the issue come up. Yet two candidates have won the Planned Parenthood of California Action Fund's coveted endorsement. No, not Rick Bosetti and Patrick Jones. The "choice" candidates...

Any in-the-know people reading have any idea what this IBEW-paid radio ad might be talking about? --- UPDATE --- OK, so I rang an IBEW rep to see if he could explain the ad. Haven't heard back yet. However, Brian...

A friend forwards this e-mail from the Bosetti campaign. Seems Bosetti has joined Mayor Patrick Jones in reacting with (feigned?) shock to the total compensation of city of Redding employees. Haven't these guys been on the council for the past...

Redding City Councilors Patrick Jones and Rick Bosetti, who are seeking re-election this fall in the face of a full-spectrum political assault from the unions that represent city workers, have not always dealt with the city’s financial bind with all the flexibility and finesse they could have. They’ve probab

Interesting exchange from Carl Bott's show yesterday between the host and the City Council candidate who's considered one of the main friends of labor. Except for matters of tone, she pretty well agrees with Rick Bosetti and Pat Jones on...

Sunday’s Redding City Council hopefuls at the candidates forum at the Redding Library, left to right: Gary Cadd, Sou Saechao, Ken Murray, Francie Sullivan, Don K

I don't think Rick Bosetti's TV spot will help build any new bridges to the city's unions -- but how will it play with the voters?...

That's what John Reit, candidate for City Council, said of incumbents Rick Bosetti and Patrick Jones -- specifically crediting their tough stand against the public-employee unions who've recruited and are backing a slate of candidates to oust them. True?...