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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Harris</p>                                <p class=\"imgtitle\">Cooley</p>           SACRAMENTO (Legal Newsline) - California still is waiting to see who will succeed in the fight to replace Jerry Brown as the state's attorney general.<br /><br />As of 5:45 a.m. Wednesday Pacific time, Democrat Kamala Harris maintained a slim edge over Republican Steve Cooley with 93 percent of statewide precincts reporting. She had 46 percent of the vote to Cooley's 45 percent. <br /><br />With nearly seven million votes cast in the race, Harris led Cooley by just 43,536 votes. Four other candidates combined for about 10 percent of the vote.<br /><br />Cooley led Harris by only one percentage point in a poll released Monday. He led a quieter campaign, though he began an advertising push late in October that criticized Harris' law enforcement history.<br /><br />The winner will have a chance to either advance or curtail Brown's environmental initiatives. Brown has said greenhouse gases regulations are insurance policies \"against catastrophe.\" Read more <a href=\"http://legalnewsline.com/news/224042-ag-greenhouse-regulations-are-an-insurance-policy-against-catastrophe\" class=\"copy\">here</a>.<br /><br />Harris, the San Francisco district attorney who was endorsed by President Barack Obama, had filed a complaint with the state's Fair Political Practices Commission last week. It was against an out-of-state Republican fundraising group and dismissed after only one day.<br /><br />One of the group's contributors is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. <em>Legal Newsline</em> is owned by the Institute for Legal Reform, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The ad attacked Harris' unwillingness to use the death penalty.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach John O'Brien by e-mail at jobrienwv@gmail.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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