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California Blog Roundup for July 6, 2006

Today’s California Blog Roundup is on the flip. Teasers: Phil Angelides, Arnold Schwarzenegger, CA-04, CA-11, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, corruption, immigration, environment, health care, prisons, environment, clean money.

Governor’s Race

  • OK, today I like Bill Cavala: “Typically, however, columnists who have columns to fill seize upon poll results as facts to be explained – then explain them in terms of information known to dozens of California’s millions of voters.”
  • ABC on the Republican Party’s well-coordinated millionaire-financed pro-Schwarzenegger “he’s not as bad for the Environement as Richard Pombo” ads.
  • Frank Russo reports that Angelides has accepted eight invitations to debate, and wonders whether Arnold will be gutsy enough to meet Angelides for them. ABC also doubts that Schwarzenegger will have the guts to accept more than one or two, probably only the most scripted of them.
  • Follow the money if you want to know who Arnold owes, and who he’ll help.

Paid-For Pombo / CA-11

15% Doolittle / CA-04

Other Republican Paragons

Health Care

Environment

Reform

    Down With Tyranny supports Clean Money and Angelides, but has some concerns. Matt Lockshin responds in comments.

Prisons

Immigration

Miscellany

News Roundup 3/25/06

Today’s news roundup on the flip. Teasers: Piggy banks at the trough, the profitability of being a Rovian acolyte, employment up, housing down, gas prices up, and minor skirmishes in the culture war.

  • Let’s lead with this excellent SacBee graphic explaining the current gubernatorial race for cash.
  • Steve Schmidt, leader of the Schwarzenegger Bush-style, Rove-educated campaign team, is raking it in. Who says crime doesn’t pay? (On a side note, the Republican Flash Report thinks both the paycheck and Steve Schmidt are just ducky.)
  • In economic news, jobs are up across the state, but most of our growth has been in home construction and related industries. Home sales are slowing, as everyone knew they eventually would, so clearly that’s not a sustainable model. Silicon Valley is doing fairly well, but the lack of investment in affordable housing, transportation and education is a looming problem.
  • Just in time for the summer driving season, gas prices are edging up.
  • On the culture war front, a whole bunch of fundamentalist teens have descended on San Francisco for some kind of rally against worldliness. I hope they’re staying in hotels — their money spends just fine, I reckon. The targets of complaint called out in the article include MySpace and the sexualization of pop culture. I keep waiting for these folks to realize that Rupert Murdoch, their nominal ally, owns the sex-saturated Fox Channel and now MySpace. Update: Apparently, Fox News is a bit sex-saturated as well. I can’t wait for the protests from the fundamentalists.
  • On the serious side, there’s been a small victory for the equal treatment of gay Americans. Though I’m no fan of Proposition 13, it allows a surviving spouse to inherit property without triggering a reassessment. That benefit has been extended to registered domestic partners.

Rasmussen: Three-way Tie in CA Governor’s Race

According to Rasmussen Reports, a Republican-leaning polling outfit, these are the current numbers:

The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll in California shows Schwarzenegger trailing State Treasurer Phil Angelides by one percentage point, 45% to 44%. That is the same nominal edge Angelides enjoyed in our February poll, when he led 41% to 40%.

State Comptroller Steve Westly leads 45% to 44%. In our last poll, Schwarzenegger led Westly 39% to 34%.

The fact that both Democrats poll essentially the same numbers at this time suggests the race remains a referendum on the incumbent rather than a choice between competing candidates.

The Referendum-on-Arnold model is very different from Matthew Dowd’s (public) “it’s a choice” strategy for the Schwarzenegger campaign.

Blog Roundup: March 23, 2006

The (admittedly tardy) California Blog Roundup for March 23 is below the fold: