. >> a sacramento political consultant who profited from oil companies and developers, that's steve glazerg for the special interests, not you. >> reporter: that pretty much sums up the tone of the hottest and ugliest stated assembly fight in california. it's right here in the east bay. it's between two democrats who represent two big interest groups, unions and businesses. >> these are ar targets. >> reporter: in the business corner political consultant and orinda city councilman steve glazer whose call for a ban on bart strikeses, and pension for public workers, has made him the enemy of labor in the state. >> they don't want politicians to call it as it is, which is it is wrong. >> reporter: in the other corner tim sobrante who has the backing of environmentalists, teachers and unions including the striking bart

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steve glazer. a sacramento political consultant who profited from big tobacco, oil companies, and developers. that's steve glazer, working for the special interests-- not you. or tim sbranti. dedicated teacher and coach... local mayor who balanced his budgets.. and environmental leader. it's why sbranti for assembly is endorsed by firefighters, nurses, and teachers. because tim sbranti will always work for you. >>> welcome back to "the lead." in world news, more western officials will have to give up their dreams of summering in siberia. russians added more canadians to a list of people entering their country but it's not publicly revealing the names. vladimir putin imploring pro-russian separatists to postpone their votes, they will defy him and go ahead with it anyway as the ukraine military tries to nick, what is happening there? >> reporter: well, it's calm but there's a sense of fear about what the days ahead bring. a lot of people seem winded. in fact, wind taken out of their sails. today it

steve glazer.to political consultant who profited from big tobacco, oil companies, and developers. that's steve glazer, working for the special interests-- not you. or tim sbranti. dedicated teacher and coach... local mayor who balanced his budgets.. and environmental leader. it's why sbranti for assembly is endorsed by firefighters, nurses, and teachers. because tim sbranti will always work for you. >>> welcome back to "the lead," time for our national lead. the white house is out in full force on one of president obama's big second-term priorities, recognizing the effects of climate change. this morning, the white house pushed out the third u.s. national climate assessment put together by 300 experts. it's over 800 pages and it might scare the nitrites out of you. floods, hurricanes, extreme heat, wildfire. sounds like a passage out of the bible. tom foreman, this is very much pushing immediate effects right writing that climate change is happening now. >> they are trying to not make this a probl

steve glazer.mento political consultant who profited from big tobacco, oil companies, and developers. that's steve glazer, working for the special interests-- not you. or tim sbranti. dedicated teacher and coach... local mayor who balanced his budgets.. and environmental leader. it's why sbranti for assembly is endorsed by firefighters, nurses, and teachers. because tim sbranti will always work for you. >>> in washington today, a major escalation in a scandal that first came to light on cnn. the house veteran affairs committee voted unanimously to subpoena veterans secretary erik shinseki, a secretary. at issue is veterans who have died while waiting for basic care to the v.a. hospital actually that v.a. hospital. there are a couple of them in phoenix and elsewhere. focus has been on one in particular allegations v.a. officials fudged or destroyed the waiting lists. some lawmakers want shinseki to resign. he says he has quote more work to do. cnn's drew griffin has been working this outrageous stor

that's steve glazer working for the special interests, not you. >> reporter: that pretty much sums up the tone of the hottest and ugliest stated assembly fight in california. it's right here in the east bay. it's between two democrats who represent two big interest groups, unions and businesses. >> these are ar targets. >> reporter: in the business corner political consultant and orinda city councilman steve glazer whose call for a ban on bart strikeses, and pension for public workers, has made him the enemy of labor in the state. >> they don't want politicians to call it as it is, which is it is wrong. >> reporter: in the other corner tim sobrante who has the backing of environmentalists, teachers and unions including the striking bart unions. business interests backing glazer have bumped millions into radio ads attacking sbranti for his support of the bart strike. >> it's just noise. >> reporter: speaking of noise, sbranti's union supporters have fired back with a $1.6 million barrage attacking glazer for his work as a political consultant for big business. >> it shows how you get d

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