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
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Paid-For Pombo just wants to drill and spill, even though there’s not really any point, and he refuses to consider any sort of conservation.
15% Doolittle / CA-04
- More on some of 15% Doolittle’s shady shady friends.
- Pay us some, and we get you earmarked money. That’s the Republican deal.
Other Republican Paragons
- Duke Cunningham is the grift that keeps on giving.
- Federalism is a fairweather principle for Republicans, to be abandoned when corporate profits are to be preserved.
Health Care
- The recently-passed budget and health care.
- Randy Bayne reminds us to talk to our Assembly members about SB 840’s single-payer plan while they’re home for July.
Environment
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The extractive industries are push-polling in Humboldt County. Nice.
Reform
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Down With Tyranny supports Clean Money and Angelides, but has some concerns. Matt Lockshin responds in comments.
Prisons
- Frank Russo on the shameful state of medical care in California’s prisons.
- Interesting piece on California’s prisons by a Corrections Officer.
Immigration
- OK, let’s try to run a gastarbeiter program like the big-business Republicans want… This is what it looks like.
- Looks like the one area where Bush was at least a bit moderate, immigration, is about to be sacrificed to the nativist Republican base.
- Tom Hilton continues to deal with a nativist bigot with far more patience that the man deserves.
- Naturalization of permanent residents makes me happy. Our strength as a state and a nation rests on immigrants.
Miscellany
- “AT&T won’t allow it.” TURN on why AB2987 is not such a good deal for regular folks.It’s old, but the BradBlog has a statement from the Yolo County Registrar on voting machine sleepovers. (They’re bad, m’kay?)
- Joe Scott on Villaraigosa.
- Ah, infighting in the Indian gaming lobby. We love it so.
- SoHum Parlance on big business in organic foods. I buy my produce from a CSA near Sacramento and a local co-op, but I recognize that I’m lucky to have those choices.
- Turn Tahoe Blue reprints a great LTE on a Voting Rights Amendment. Also, a good news roundup for Wednesday.