Newsom-Maldonado debate

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--The two candidates for California lieutenant governor on Thursday tried to dispel notions that they are both moderates cut from the same political cloth, sparring in their first live debate over issues ranging from the environment to immigration. AP in the Daily News.

Incumbent Abel Maldonado and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom tried to persuade an audience made up of members of a Silicon Valley employers group that they would use the largely unsung second-in-command post to create jobs, restore the state's public universities and overcome the partisan stalemate gripping Sacramento.