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* Some grassroots activists are starting a new website NoProp16Films.org. The video to the right is the first project.COMMUNITY SPEAKS from No on Prop16 Films on Vimeo.

* Arnold: Everything is on the table. Just not additional revenue. Even according to his staff, the cuts will be “absolutely terrible.”

* Boeing workers in Long Beach are going on strike.

* Immigration in the GOP primary has become quite the little issue.  Steve Poizner is making speeches from the border, and Meg Whitman is getting Pete “Prop 187” Wilson to cut some ads for her.  And they keep drifting to the right…

* A candidate in the CA-11 GOP Primary, Brad Goehring, (not Hermann) decided that it would be a good idea to post on his facebook page that it should be “open season on liberals” and that he “needed to thin the herd.”  He says it was a joke. I say it is outrageously offensive.

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* MapLight.org, a website that highlights money in politics, has a newly redesigned California website. Check it out.

* Sen. Boxer promoted financial reform in San Francisco today.

* Joel Fox rushes to the aid of Prop 13. Apparently pursuing rational public policy is an affront to all tax-haters everywhere.

* Gov. Schwarzenegger made a joke about Arizona’s ridiculous immigration law in a speech today.

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* Carly Failorina, CONSERVATIVE Republican, has a few new ads. Great for the primary…not so much for the general.  

* Grassroots right-wingers are not happy about the Palin endorsement of iCarly.

* Mercury Insurance says they are just trying to save you money. Right. The LA Times does the he-said/she-said on Prop 17.

* Pete Parra is running against Fran Florez for the 30th AD nomination.  This is betty BS between the two families.  The region could  do far better without the personal garbage.

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* PG&E is in hot water with the PUC again, this time on “smart meter” data.

* Poizner and Whitman are fighting for the “real conservative” label now, but we’ll see how long they seek to retain that mantle come June 9.

* Whitman’s Barbara Boxer problem.

* Mary Bono Mack is looking at a real challenge from openly gay Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet.

* More records in the brewing CSU-Stanislaus/Sarah Palin case?

* Speaking of Sarah Palin, she endorsed Carly Failorina.

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* Aww, poor Arnold. He won’t be able to use charitable contributions for his fancy lifestyle.

* Really, people? Some SF planning employees got busted for watching porn at work.

* The LibDem connection to California.

* The FPPC is moving swiftly these days.

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* Debra Saunders compares Meg Whitman’s “inevitability model” to Hillary Clinton’s, and thinks Poizner might be better situated than people are giving him credit.  That might be true, but mail ballots are going out next week. He needs some sort of knockout punch sooner rather than later. Is Goldman enough?

* Paul Rodriguez, who was going around pimping for the Resnicks and other big Fresno corporate and Westlands water interests, claims that he was appointed to the Water Commission. Arnold’s people say that’s not true. Ooh, is there a little tiff in the astroturf land?

* Speaking of water, the feds are setting up a new commission on California water issues.

* John Laird made his announcement for SD-15 official. Gooooo John!

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* Over the weekend, CalBuzz took a look at a cartoon (to the right) about Prop 16, and how Lehane and Fabiani have a few issues with conflicts. Mainly that Lehane is working on attacking Meg Whitman and her connections to Goldman Sachs and his partner, Mark Fabiani, is working for Goldman.

* The reviews from yesterday’s debate are in from the media. Poizner was on the attack, and immigration was the issue of the moment.  Oh, and Goldman Sachs, and Goldman Sachs, and [Goldman Sachs ].

* The SF Chronicle fact checks the GOP candidates.

* A story about Steven Glazer, Jerry Brown’s campaign manager.

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*  Oh, snap, Meg Whitman is going to release the dreaded Steve Poizner moderate tapes.

*  Google CEO (and big Obama supporter) Eric Schmidt donated $12,900 to Jerry Brown.  Why not the full $25K that he could donate to a candidate for governor in the primary? Perhaps he’s a bit worried for his finances; they might retreat a few million next week.

*  Asm. Sam Blakeslee made his run for the 15th Senate district official.

*  Chucky D: always the optimist.

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*  The LA Times is starting to kick out the endorsements. In the LG race, they endorsed Gavin Newsom and Abel Maldonado. In the AG race, they endorsed the two prosecutors in the race, Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley.

*  Poizner is totally going to win this thing. Or so he thinks, but don’t you wonder what he’s saying to himself as a businessman making an investment in his own campaign?

*  Tom Campbell is glad to be running for Senate rather than Governor.

*  A court ruling on Indian casinos could end up costing the state a lot of money. The tribes are trying to avoid paying the state the traditional chunk of the revenues.

*  Oakland hasn’t given up on keeping the A’s yet.

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*  Chuck DeVore is all over this Arizona immigration law. The interesting thing is that so is supposedly “moderate” TOm Campbell.  Fiorina isn’t so sure yet.

*  More fallout from the Arizona immigration law: Sacramento Mayor is shunning all things Arizona, and San Francisco has banned city travel to the state.

*  The TeaBaggers will be protesting San Francisco …in San Francisco. Apparently, they are jealous of the shining City on a Hill.

*  Chuck DeVore got the big Mike Hukabee endorsement.