California U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s (R) property taxes are being paid by Sisters in Christ LLC, an organization that includes his sister-in-law as a manager, the Sacramento Bee reports.

It’s not clear what Sisters in Christ’s activities include.

San Francisco Chronicle: “Hello to the city, goodbye to your luggage. That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage.”

“The heist meant the Democratic congressman got stuck at a fancy dinner party in his shirt sleeves and a hiking vest while everyone else sat in suits.”

“Steve Garvey, the Republican Senate candidate in California, struggled to pay his taxes following his Major League Baseball career while serving as an entrepreneur and pitchman for alternative health remedies,” Politico reports.

“Garvey and his businesses were named in more than 40 tax liens, federal and state, totaling about $3.85 million over the last four decades.”

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) says she regrets calling the recent California Senate primary “rigged” after losing the closely watched Democratic contest to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), The Hill reports.

Said Porter: “I want to really make clear that at no time in, in no way would I ever suggest that there’s anything other than a careful, thoughtful, amazing election system that actually should be the model for a lot of the country, in my opinion.”

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) claimed the U.S. Senate primary in California that she lost was “rigged” by “an onslaught of billionaires.”

“Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted a speech by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Tuesday night — loudly shouting him down and forcing him to truncate his remarks, as he was attempting to claim victory in the California primary contest to determine who will replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate,” the Washington Post reports.

“Concluding California’s most competitive U.S. Senate primary in a generation, Rep. Adam Schiff and retired Dodgers All-Star Steve Garvey will square off in November to represent the Golden State in Washington,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“The job, one of the most coveted in California politics, is rarely open. Feinstein was in the Senate for more than three decades, and Sen. Barbara Boxer served for nearly a quarter-century. A Senate seat can also be a launching pad for higher office, as was the case for Vice President Kamala Harris, President Nixon and California Gov. Pete Wilson.”

“Rep. Adam Schiff’s campaign strategy of spending millions to highlight Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s conservative record appears to have paid off, making Garvey a strong favorite to emerge from Tuesday’s primary as Schiff’s general election opponent,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“That’s the finding of the latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by The Times. The survey finds Schiff, the veteran Democratic congressman from Burbank, and Garvey, the former Dodgers star first baseman, in effect tied for the lead in the primary just days before the election.”

“Schiff’s effort appears to be boxing out his chief rival, Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine, a fellow Democrat, who trails in third.”

“In the general election, Schiff would be an overwhelming favorite to beat Garvey in heavily Democratic California. The poll finds Schiff starting with a significant lead in a two-way matchup, 53% to 38%, with 9% undecided. By contrast, a general election between Schiff and Porter would start out tied, with 4 in 10 voters undecided, the poll found.”

The final Emerson College/Inside California Politics/The Hill poll in California finds Rep. Adam Schiff (D) maintaining a lead in the primary for U.S. Senate with 28%, followed by Steve Garvey (R) at 20%, Rep. Katie Porter (D) with 17%, and Rep. Barbara Lee (D) with 8%.

Seventeen percent remain undecided ahead of Tuesday’s election.

“California’s Senate race was expected to be a three-way Democratic prizefight, but the possibility of a record-low turnout is elevating the chances of Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball star, and could derail the congressional careers of two prominent progressives,” the AP reports.

“For months, Rep. Adam Schiff has had the fundraising and polling edge in a crowded Democratic field. Garvey’s ascent has imperiled the political prospects of Reps. Barbara Lee and Katie Porter. The top two finishers in the March 5 contest, regardless of party, advance to the general election in November in the liberal-leaning state.”

“Rep. Katie Porter is holding a fire sale for her highly prized fundraising list as she scrambles to raise last-minute cash in California’s Senate race,” Politico reports.

“Porter is among the country’s best online fundraisers, and her private database of donor emails and phone numbers is a top-performing asset in Democratic politics.”

A new Emerson College/Inside California Politics/The Hill survey finds Rep. Adam Schiff (D) maintaining his lead in the U.S. Senate jungle primary with 28%, followed by Steve Garvey (R) at 22%, Rep. Katie Porter (D) at 16% and Rep. Barbara Lee (D) at 9%.

Seventeen percent remain undecided.

In a U.S. Senate debate, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) said she would consider a $50 per hour minimum wage in the Bay Area, which she represents, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.

She backed up the need for such a drastic jump by pointing to a study that found that a $127,000 annual income is “barely enough” for a family of four to survive.

Her Democratic opponents, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Katie Porter (D-CA), have called for an increase in the minimum wage to $20 to $25 an hour.

Los Angeles Times: “Porter’s three terms as an outspoken Democratic member of Congress holding down a competitive Orange County district have been defined by her blunt demeanor, professorial intellect and sometimes polarizing behavior.”

“Those traits tend to stir things up inside both the U.S. Capitol and her four-bedroom home in Irvine, which she shares with a college student who helps take care of the children while Porter is away. Her decision to run for the U.S. Senate has put all of it on full display.”

A new ad from Rep. Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign seeks to boost Steve Garvey (R) among Republican voters by calling him “too conservative for California — he voted for Trump, twice, and supported Republicans for years, including far right conservatives.”

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) called the ad “brazenly cynical” since she’s effectively battling Garvey to secure a runoff spot in the jungle primary. 

California U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey (R) claims to be “a devoted family man” but “the reality of Garvey’s life is more complex,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“The 75-year-old has struggled with debt, been repeatedly sued, faced a bitter divorce, and got two women pregnant before quickly marrying a third woman, his current wife, in a scandal that briefly made him a national punchline in 1989. He pledged in interviews at the time to take ‘moral and financial responsibility’ for the children.”

“Speaking publicly for the first time, the two children involved in the paternity imbroglio, now adults, told The Times that their mothers repeatedly tried to arrange meetings and phone calls for the children with Garvey, but he declined to communicate.”

“Also speaking publicly for the first time, Garvey’s oldest child from his first marriage said he cut off almost all contact without explanation about 15 years ago in a move that she still finds painful.”

Politico: “The showdown’s feistiest moments came as Garvey wriggled — for a full ten minutes — under Democrats’ attempt to pin him down on Trump. The former president is deeply toxic in much of liberal California, but Garvey risks alienating the state’s still-sizeable Republican electorate if he assails Trump. The most he said was that President Joe Biden had not ‘been good for this country.’”

Said Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA): “Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.”

Politico: “California alone has seven GOP House incumbents that Democrats have targeted. The campaign accounts of Schiff and his closest Democratic opponent, fellow Rep. Katie Porter, could transform those contests.”

“Instead, Schiff and Porter are engaged in an expensive, bruising primary. The tens of millions they’ve raised have largely been spent against each other, not Republicans.”