Enjoy your weekend. Links:
• Carla Marinucci knows the gossip. She’s got your flim-flam of what’s going on with all the “almost news” items. Obama did a shout-out to Garamendi, but didn’t pass out freebies to the event.
• Turns out that Arnold’s workers comp scheme found a wrench in its wheel. A decision by the Workers comp fund appeal board has the result of providing better benefits to the injured workers. Gasp!
• Mike Berryhill loaned his campaign $100 K to oust Blue Dog Dennis Cardoza from the Central Valley’s CA-18. That’s still an uphill race for Berryhill, but you never know.
• Conservative Joel Fox is happy with the status quo in Sacramento. Yup, you heard that right. Just let it sink in. The right wing is happy with the status quo.
• Longtime legislator Bob Beverly died. Beverly was something you don’t see much of today, a moderate Republican. He served the Long Beach area in the legislature for about thirty years.
Maybe if the 2/3rds protection was removed, Republicans would be forced to campaign with electable platforms then the days of the moderate Republican can return again. Then Republicans would not have to rely on the wedge issues of racial disharmony and bashing the LGBT community for support.