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* Chuck DeVore has an awesome billboard that you can help fund. It’s even got We the People in it, so it must be good, right? Right?
* What’s the old Rovian saying, attack your opponents strengths? Well, perhaps eMeg got the memo backward or something. She’s now attacking Brown on her own weaknesses by going after some tangential connections to Goldman Sachs. For a former board member of Goldman Sachs, that seems rich.
* More from the great new site, California Watch. They have a review of top poltical spenders for the first quarter. Tops on the list, by a lot? None other than PG&E. Their $25M+ is well more than 8 times any other corporate lobby effort.
* Polling shows a lead for the Yes positionin the Santa Clara bond measure that would bring the “San Francisco” 49ers to Santa Clara. It’s at 52-36 right now.
* The state may expand a system that rates preschools that began in LA’s South Bay.
Doesn’t PG&E spend a lot of money every year on California ballot measures?
Obviously this year they are bankrolling Prop-16. Was there some specific incident that caused them to do this? What city is trying to create their own utility?
Running a 21st century Utility requires a lot of expertise I can’t imagine any city trying to do this now. Am I missing something here.
Stonewall Democratic Club, based in Los Angeles, has endorsed Janice Hahn for lieutenant governor and Tom Torlakson for superintendent of public instruction.
The interview committee’s recommendation of Hahn was confirmed by a vote of 27 to 10. The recommendation for Torlakson was confirmed, 33 to 8. Both votes exceeded the 60% necessary for endorsement.
For Los Angeles Superior Court, the club endorsed Mark K. Ameli (Office No. 28), Soussan Bruguera (Office No. 35), Valerie Salkin (Office No. 107), Alan Schneider (Office No. 117), and Maren E. Nelson (Office No. 131).
The club previously endorsed Ted Lieu for attorney general and Hector De La Torre for insurance commissioner — as well as Jerry Brown, Debra Bowen, John Chiang, and Bill Lockyer.