To the links:

• Lots, and lots, and lots of stories about the stalling of water legislation.

• I (Brian) am quite proud to be doing some work for SF District Attorney Kamala Harris. She recently wrote a book about her approach to law enforcement, Smart on Crime. And today, she chatted with Matt Lauer about it. It’s actually a pretty interesting read, not that tough to get through.  Anyway, check the video of her appearance to the right –>

• Awww…poor birthers, lose another case in federal court. Apparently they think this is a fun past time, because it isn’t getting them anywhere.

• Capitol Weekly finds some fun facts in the Registration #s. Even the most Republican seat is about ten points less partisan than the tenth most Democratic seat. There is not a single seat in the Assembly with 50% Republican registration. Interesting, the Republican brand stinks, huh?

• Sen. Kehoe (D-SD) may have had a bunch of money stolen from her campaign account in 2006.

• Despite being strapped for cash, the OC Water District handed out a raise to its head honcho.

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• eMeg doesn’t like debates. This is certainly interesting, as she said she’d like to do three wide-ranging debates in the fall just a few months ago.  December 21 is coming up soon, Ms. Whitman, but you still have time to fit those debates in.

• Looks like Meg Whitman won’t be on the Technology Execs for Boxer list this year, but some big names, including Google’s Eric Schmidt and Netflix founder Reed Hastings, are on the list.

• Even San Diegans favor medical marijuana dispensaries. Meanwhile, the outstanding question on marijuana prosecutions is will the feds drop the pending cases based upon medical marijuana?

• Joe Garofoli of the SF Chron has been contributing some great reporting on the Maine marriage measure, especially in relation to last year’s Prop 8. Today he’s focusing on the No on 1 team’s grassroots strategy.

• There’s going to be a “cash for appliances” program to improve appliance effeciency funded by the federal stimulus.

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• The Bay Bridge is closed, after a rod snapped.

• Not that it really matters all that much, but Dem candidates have more twitter followers in the governor’s race.

• Danny Gilmore may be ditching the Assembly after one term. His friend Pete Parra, father of former Assembly member Nicole, is running for the 30th district seat.

• Fabian Nunez was cleared of wrongdoing in the campaign finance issues last year.

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• Ooh, the Dick Armey TeaPartyExpress is coming to LA. Yay, photos of right-wingers doing crazy things plastered over every newspaper. Now if the media would care to investigate their real numbers in proportion to people who want real health care reform, a strong economy with robust and serious regulation, well, that’d be nice.

• In the Prop 8 litigation in federal court, the marriage equality folks were able to get discovery of some Prop 8 campaign material. Much of it will be marked confidential, but we might get some interesting information from what’s made available.

• Fisker Automotive, an LA area electric car manufacturer-to-be, plans on making their cars in America, perhaps at an old GM plant in Deleware.

• San Jose is in a tough financial state, like many other cities. The city is now looking for labor concessions.

Let’s get straight to the links:

• Carly Fiorina is expected to make some sort of announcement in Pleasanton on Nov. 6. Carlyfornia Dreamin?

• Asm. Anthony Adams is now pretty much officially facing a recall election for voting in favor of the budget deal.

• Sen. Steinberg was in San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos’s luxury box on Monday. Incidentally, Spanos is a big Republican donor, and might be looking to move his team, possibly to a new stadium in LA?

• An interview with Jack O’Connell.

• Greg Lucas wonders why Lockyer isn’t running for Governor. Might be something to do with the fact that the base has some serious qualms with the guy.

Hey, is that a spine that Harry Reid is growing? Apparently, the buzz on the street is that he’s going to include an (opt-out) public option in the bill he brings to the floor. We’ll see if it happens. Now, to the links:

• Tim Redmond of the Bay Guardian responds to the latest charges against Jerry Brown about his 90s liberalness.

• There are way too many initiatives being filed for the Nov 2010 ballot, some of them will even get on the ballot. This one about banning politicians from telling lies doesn’t seem too likely to succeed.

• There’s quite the back and forth between Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore regarding NRSC support. Chuck DeVore has basically launched an all-out attack against the DC Republicans.  How very tea-party of him.

• Medical Marijuana patient? Flying to/from SFO, no worries, bring your pot. The SFO airport police will allow card-carrying patients to have up to 8 ounces.

• Oh ya, the City of Industry Stadium legislation went through. Great, we can spend money on luring some NFL team. As a European soccer fan, I (Brian) am a big supporter of the idea of relegation and promotion of teams, an idea again proposed in last month’s Wired magazine.

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• An eMeg Win! She did register to vote as a Republican in San Francisco in the 80s]! She registered in 1982, and swears she voted for Reagan in 1984 and Bush in 1988.  While there is now evidence of the registration, there isn’t any verification on actually voting though. I guess we’ll just have to trust her on that awesome record.

• Jack O’Connell announced he wasn’t going to run for anything else after his term as State Sup. of Public Instruction was up. Timm Herdt has an anecdote about the longtime public servent.

• In theory, local governments are supposed to get some money to mitigate the damages that come from tribal casinos in their area.  Unfortunately, that money is rapidly drying up despite the Governor’s recent signing of a bill to continue the program.

• San Bernardino County has been hit hard by the recession. All the stats that you’d like to see low are high, and all the stats you’d like to see high are low. From Aug. 2008 to Aug. 2009, unemployment is up 57%, and food stamps are up 54.2%.

• Over at The Crooked Dope and in the upper right, Mike Stark has an interesting conversation with Rep. David Dreier.

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• Oooh, a crowning achievement for Sam Aanestad’s Lt. Guv campaign: a piece of the Dennis Hollingworth endorsement. I don’t know why this is really that coveted, but the Senate Majority leader has split his endorsement between Aanestad and Sen. Denham.

• Not all the news for medical marijuana growers was good today. A man who was guarding a medical marijuana crop was shot four times by thieves.

• Gotta love the murky law on ballot label designations. In this story, a candidate for Pomona USD Board tries to be listed as a teacher because he “teaches continuing legal education to other attorneys in his law firm.” what a joke.

• Dan Walters takes a look at the latest batch of census data. And guess what, the 58 counties are very different, from ethnic makeup to birth rates. But anybody who has driven much in the state would have been able to tell you how different Tulare County is from San Francisco, but the data is pretty fun. The data is available here.

• The California Redevelopment Association has sued the state for $2 billion for money taken during the budget “fix”. As a response to the state’s raid on local dollars, a coalition has decided to attempt to get something on the ballot restricting such raids. You can see their website here.

• Some other Republican has jumped in to the CA-11 race against Jerry McNerney.

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.