I’m heading up to Sacramento today to see the inauguration of Attorney General Kamala Harris. Working on the campaign for well over a year, it is the culmination of a lot of hard work. Truthfully, at some level, it hasn’t really sunk in, so this will be a somewhat dramatic experience. However, I know she will do an absolutely amazing job for the State of California.
But, you know, there are other things going on today as well. The changing of the guard from the worst governor ever back to the more competent Jerry Brown will be a huge positive for the state, and perhaps we can start to recover from the shock doctrining of our Schwarzenegger years.
The rest of the Democratic slate, save Gavin Newsom, will also be inaugurated today. So, that means Tom Torlakson, Bill Lockyer, John Chiang, Dave Jones, Debra Bowen and the above mentioned Kamala Harris will also be inaugurated. And with Dave Jones joining John Chiang, we get our second Carl Sandburg High School (Orland Park, IL) alum in statewide office. What are the odds?
Bowen says her inaugration is tomorrow, because of the tight schedule of swearing-in’s today.
Sorry. Had to say it. Just hoping he doesn’t add “I’ll be back.”
As Will Rogers said, it had a good opening, and good ending, and not too much in between. However, Governor Brown did put some nice filling between the crusts.
1. Repeated his three campaign promises.
2. Spoke of what people LIKE about good government.
3. Reminded us that California has a two TRILLION dollar GDP that is growing faster than the rest of the country.
4. Spoke about “loyalty” to one’s state (community) over one’s party. A nice alternative to “bipartisanship”.
Bravo sir.