Sorry for the late blog roundup. Been nonstop on other projects today since I posted the News Roundup this morning. Teasers for the flip: More Immigration, Dumptruck of Doolittle, Deep Thoughts on CA-11, Arnolds Ads, Miscellany.

Immigration

• Apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger, or at least his staff, had some things to say about immigration in an LA Times Op-Ed. Frank Russo at California Progress Report puts Schwarzenegger’s remarks in context, which is, ah, unflattering to the Governor. Bill Bradley (occasional commenter here — Hi Mr. Bradley!) is more supportive of Schwarzenegger (Bradley’s pick for Governor in the recall), and he just can’t resist an old-old-old-school jab at people who don’t care for the term “illegal immigrant”.
• Marc Cooper has some good thoughts on immigration, including a note to the effect that the big marches around the country were driven by Spanish-language media, which went right under the radar of the English-speakers in traditional media. I think I speak for Calitics when I say that we would welcome a Spanish-language blogger to Calitics. My Spanish is good, but not good enough.
• Politics in the Zeros says we need to take it to the streets, and wonders why Kos (as a high-profile Latino immigrant) hasn’t been more active on the immigration front. I’ve wondered why Kos doesn’t have a Spanish version of the front-paged posts.
• janinsanfran has a great series of pictures from San Francisco.
• The Idiotarian Savant thinks that Bradley and Kaus have the “blowback” narrative exactly backwards.

Doolittle, Doolittle, Doolittle

• Words Have Power on the Doolittle trickle-down economics of corruption.
• Nite Swimming, riffing on the same source material, talks about the effects of that trickle. And yet again, focusing on the Auburn Dam project as reflected in local letters to the editor.
• Dump Doolittle reports an endorsement of Doolittle from what may be the most inappropriately named newspaper on the planet.
• AnthonySF at DKos has a story on what a class act Doolittle is. The punch line is awesome.

CA-11

All of these links are from Say No To Pombo:

• Time for Thomas to Drop Out?
• More McNerney Endorsements.
• Wes Rolley’s thoughts on the primary, which I can’t summarize so you just need go read them already, ok, just go.

Everything Else

• Alliance for a Better California has some good critiques of the new eentsy-weentsy Schwarzenegger ad buy: Arnold on jobs, then and now, synchronization with “non-campaign” stops, old old news. I think Dowd is reprising the Swift Boat strategy, without the vicious lies yet: make a small ad buy the story, and get the press to do your advertising for you as part of the horse-race coverage.
• Arnold hires still more consultants from Bush/Cheney 2004.
• The California Observer points us to a new California Budget Project report on the minimum wage. I’ve downloaded, but not yet read.
• Julia Rosen (Jay Rosen’s niece — whaddya know?) on Carla Marinucci’s climbing the learning curve from reporter to blogger.

Nifty! A news roundup first thing in the morning. Whodathunkit? Teasers:Ad buy,debate set, debate silliness, salmon, student walkouts, new state revenue initative,Lake Tahoe.

• I’m only going to mention 2 pieces of the many stories around Schwarzeneggers’ recent staged news event in the form of a small ad buy. The first is this brief and informative piece by an OC Register reporter which compares the claims made in the ad to actual facts and prior Schwarzenegger positions. The second is this Chron “blog’ entry by Carla Marinucci, which uncritically notes the existence of the ad and the pitch, and speaks only to Matthew Dowd, Schwarzenegger’s chief strategist. The Marinucci piece is particularly notable for its failure, even in this informal context, to report on the estimated size of the ad buy. One would think that a reporter charged with statewide political coverage might read at least Bill Bradley’s public stuff, and I’m sure there are insider newletters that say the same type of thing with more detail.
• The SacBee reports that there will be at least one Angelides / Westly debate in Los Angeles, hosted by the League of Conservation Voters. Other debates continue to be the subject of pointlessly pointed semi-public argument between the two campaigns.
• The Contra Costa Times reports that a federal judge has ordered that the Klamath River be allowed sufficient water to fully support its salmon run.
• Tens of thousands of students walked out of schools in the Los Angeles area yesterday in support of the immigration rallies over the weekend.
• Reed Hastings and John Doerr launch a signature drive for a parcel tax initiative — a direct strike at Proposition 13.
• The Sacramento Bee reports on the plight of regular folks who live in Tahoe — even while vacation homes sit empty, they have a hard fime finding an affordable place to live. That’s John Doolittle country up there. Any guesses as to what kind of homes his developer contributors want to build?

That’s it for the news roundup today.

Today’s California Blog Roundup is on the flip. Too much stuff for teasers. Just have a look.

California News Roundup for today on the flip. Teasers: Education spending, Angelides v. Westly, open space purchases in Sonoma County, lobbying “reform”, development, transit, parks, fish, and Prop. 82.

• California’s spending on education is still a train wreck, rife with inequality.
• The Mercury News Capitol Notebook has a good rundown of the good, the bad, and the silly from the last week in Sacramento. From the Contra Costa County Times, the Westly v. Angelides matchup can be summarized as bucks vs. backs. Westly has money, Angelides has union support.
• Sonoma County is discussing the extension of a .025 cent sales tax adder which has been (and will be) used to purchase open space preserves in the county.
• The SacBee has a point-counterpoint on the abortive effort to reform the lobbying rules for the House of Representatives: Dan Lungren (R-Gold River) and Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento). Then the Bee follows up with its own editorial: disclosure and FEC oversight. Did Dan Walters write that? Look, folks, from the outside, it all looks like vote-buying. Stop tinkering around the edges of the problem.
• East Contra Costa anti-growth advocates express concern about transit-centric development requirements. Sometimes the concern is phrased around resource usage (legitimate), and sometimes around nebulous lifestyle concerns (less so).
• From the LA Times, a good piece on development / sprawl vs. parkland.
• Again from the LA Times, a story I’ve been following in the NorCal papers: the likely closure of California’s salmon fisheries. I have a hard time approaching this problem objectively — I grew up with fishing, both for sport and money — but will try to treat it well. The long and short of the problem is resource constraints — mostly overdammed rivers and water-hungry agricultural uses.
• Soot may kill more Californians than we thought. Pollution bad. But we knew that.
• Last, a good summary of the current state of Proposition 82. The organized opposition seems to mostly be anti-government activists and business groups. Of course, one might ask what business groups are concerned about — Proposition 82 targets individuals earning more than $400K / year. It’s almost as if the business groups were representing the interests of the elite business executives…

Today’s blog roundup is pretty much going to be about the remarkable reaction to H.R. 4437, the Minuteman House Republican attack on Latinos in the guise of immigration reform. Other blog posts which I’ve seen today will be in tomorrow’s roundup.

• If one were to read just one California blog on this event, I would recommend janinsanfran’s happening-here. Max Blumenthal’s entry is worth reading as well.
• If one were to step outside California, at least among the blogs I read regularly, I would recommend David Neiwert’s entry on the larger questions and TalkLeft’s discussion of H.R. 4437.
• David Ehrenstein notes that the New York Times didn’t even bother to independently cover the half-million people demonstrating in Los Angeles. Martini Republic has a similar complaint (answered in part) concerning the LA blogosphere.
• Politics in the Zeros notes that in their opinion (and they are affiliated with ANSWER, so that colors their opinion) the liberal blogosphere has done very little to cover this issue, and the coverage has largely been around how to use this to split the Republicans. There’s also some thoughts about the effectiveness of non-net word-spreading and massive turnout as opposed to, well, blogging and other word-based activities.
• Some of that first criticism is certainly fair. For example, one sees at least some hints of the “immigration as wedge issue” approach here, here, and here. Of course, when the Republican Party has spent the last 40 years or so cynically hammering at wedge issues and appealing to some of the worst nativist and racist elements in America, one has to expect some political blowback, and a political response.
• Pombo Watch, from a different political perspective, warns that the Democrats should not take the Latino vote for granted.
• LA Weekly has Bill Bradley and Marc Cooper duking it out on the issue. I think that Cooper gets the better of this round: Bradley’s nativist streak shows, especially in his terminology, and it’s not pretty. Now if Cooper would just drop his affiliation with Pajamaline…
• Locally, most of the Education Justice March Archive is taken up with this issue.
• The Democratic Daily has a more centrist roundup.

A mea culpa is in order here. I have not been writing much on immigration issues, because I don’t feel qualified to do so. It’s a complicated problem, with many contributing factors, and with a lot of emotion on all sides. Clearly, I will have to correct my ignorance.

Today’s blog roundup is on the flip. Teasers: Pombo’s immigration failure, BradBlog on the radio, more CA-50 Republican shenanigans, and some more Arnold doublespeak.

• Pombowatch discusses the problems that the Republicans and Richard Pombo have got with immigration and Latinos.
• Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog spent some time on-air with Carolyn Wilson Crnich, Elections Registrar of Humboldt County. Have a listen.
• The Swing State Project catches Eric Roach, one of the CA-50 Republican pack? bunch? swarm? in what looks like a pretty flagrant violation of campaign communications law. That Republican Primary is nasty, but I have to admit, it’s fun to watch Republicans play dirty tricks on each other for a change. I hope Busby’s campaign is ready to be on the receiving end of the same stuff.
• Alliance for a Better California reminds us that Candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new education pitch is more than a little different from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s education policies. Remember folks, watch what Arnold does, not what he says.

That’s all, folks.