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It turns out Phil Angelides is running a funny campaign.  Now, not that bad kind of funny, I mean actually funny.  His campaign put out a cartoon mocking the Governator called Arnold’s Neighborhood, playing off Sesame Street.

And speaking of Funny, the Governor himself is quite the jokester!  At the beginning of yesterday’s town hall meeting, The Governator’s sound was having some issues. Perhaps, but it also could have been some planned joke, that we’ll never know.  Anyway, Ahnold joked that “it must be Perata somewhere in the back messing with my sound.”  Yet another helpful comment from the man who was going to work with both parties.

And on to the meeting itself.  I recorded it and was going to stream some clips, but FOX 2 took care of that for me. They’ve provided a page with links to several clips.  Hopefully it will be up until the election is over.  A classic line from Ahnold: “I’m not smart enough to understand all of this and the history of all this.” in reference to Prop. 74’s requirement for 5 year teacher tenure.

In my estimation, Perata won this debate.  However, Ahnold’s star power still has some strange hold over Repuplicans that I can’t really understand.  Polls are all over the place, so who knows how the Propositions are doing.  It was nice, though, to have an informed discussion about the special election.  It would have been better to have both Perata and Ahnold on stage at the same time, but I’m guessing Ahnold’s handlers wouldn’t have any of that.