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  • Matt Fong Dead at 57

    06/01/2011 4:21:14 PM PDT · by newzjunkey · 13 replies
    NBC ^ | Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 | Updated 3:53 PM PDT | By Lori Preuitt
    Former state treasurer Matt Fong has died. Fong was 57 years old. His wife Paula told the Associated Press that he died in their Pasadena home Wednesday morning after losing a battle with skin cancer. Fong, a Republican, held the state office from 1995 to 1998. He also served as Vice Chairman of the California State Board of Equalization and was a 1998 Republican nominee for the United States Senate. Fong was born in Alameda. He was the son of former Democratic California Secretary of State March Fong Eu. March Fong Eu held that officer for 20 years and was...
  • CalPERS reveals middlemen paid $125 million to win fund's business

    01/15/2010 2:01:54 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 409+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 1/15/10 | Dale Kasler
    Shedding new light on the involvement of former board members in lucrative deals, CalPERS revealed Thursday that marketing middlemen known as placement agents earned more than $125 million in fees from investments by the pension fund. The agents include four ex-CalPERS board members, among them former state Treasurer Matt Fong and former CalPERS President William Crist. Their activities as placement agents were disclosed for the first time in thousands of pages of documents released by the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Crist defended his work when reached by phone at his home in Turlock on Thursday, and Fong couldn't be...
  • Bill Jones is Working Undercover

    09/19/2004 4:48:10 PM PDT · by sfwarrior · 23 replies · 1,077+ views
    SFGATE.com ^ | 9/20/04 | Adam Sparks
    There's an important political race going on in California that will affect how residents are represented in Washington for the next six years. The problem is that the challenger trying to unseat the state's more liberal senator, Barbara Boxer, is running a top-secret, stealth campaign. Nobody has heard anything about it. And, apparently, that's the way former California Secretary of State Bill Jones likes it. The election is less than 45 days away, and the Senate race is still California's biggest secret; no one knows anything about it. Talk about Republican incompetence -- this issue takes the prize. Here we...
  • Sen. Boxer's last foe has advice for new one: Don't do what I did

    03/27/2004 4:19:40 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 28 replies · 172+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 3/27/04 | Erica Werner - AP
    <p>CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP) - Republican Matt Fong felt nearly certain of victory in his 1998 U.S. Senate race when incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer mowed him over with attack ads casting him as an extreme right-winger on abortion, gun control and the environment.</p>