PAYCHECK POLITICS COULD BE HERE TO STAY: “Longtime Rep. Dan Lungren lost re-election last year in part because of redistricting that favored Democrats. But the California Republican said it didn’t help that his Democratic challenger, current Rep. Ami Bera, campaigned on the promise to support a bill known as ‘no budget, no pay’ while a deluge of TV ads charged Lungren with blocking the very same measure.”