Today’s Blog Roundup features entries from the last couple days. Teasers: CDC Council, ABC vs. BRT, minimum wage, health insurance, recent governor’s race polling, lots of CA-11 coverage, emission regulation, and immigration.

• The California Democratic Council just finished their convention, and they have a slate of endorsements. How they got missed on our blogroll / resources list is beyond me. Mea culpa.
• Alliance for a Better California does a little chest-beating over the recent ruling concerning the California Recovery Team’s campaign finance violation. It’s cool. One should be allowed to celebrate victory. In related news, ABC responds to the Republican whinging about ABC Chair Joe Nunez’s appointment to the State Board of Education and the continuing action by ABC with respect to CRT’s campaign finance violations. What were the Republicans expecting, exactly? Did they think that Schwarzenegger was buying Nunez off?
• Frank Russo of California Progress Report places in context the Governor vs. Legislature blame game and polling results.
• Randy Bayne posting at ABC discusses PPIC’s polling on Schwarzenegger’s “likability” quotient. Julia Rosen at the same shop compares the PPIC poll to another poll this week from Zogby.
• California Progress Report on the fundamental justice of inflation-indexing the California minimum wage. Schwarzenegger and the Republicans of course want to make this a continuing political football, rather than just doing the right thing for working people.
• Say No To Pombo has a discussion of the significance (or insignificance) of the presence of Pete McCloskey at recent Latino immigration rallies, and the absence of the Democratic candidates. PomboWatch has its own contribution to that conversation. There’s also an interesting post at SNTP about expanding the environmentalist base through outreach to the reasonable religious.
• SNTP also has a beef with some of the uncritical coverage of Richard Pombo’s creative relationship to the truth. Pombo Watch explores Richard Pombo’s creative relationship to science and the truth.
• Not a blog, exactly, but the NorCal Young Dems Action Caucus is planning a voter registration drive in CA-11.
• The CA-11 Blog posts an interview with Steve Filson on last year’s bankrupcty bill. CA-11 supports Filson, so don’t look to that source for a similar interview with McNerney.
• San Diego Politics does a rundown on the finances of the candidates for the CA-50 special election. Lot of self-funded Republicans there — it’s like a vanity press for revanchist political aspirants. La Prensa has apparently endorsed Busby and her sane immigration policy. Watch the Republicans lose their minds.
• nyceve at My Left Wing has a diary up about California Blue Cross running a “retroactive review department” to cancel health insurance for people who get sick. Nice. Single payer, single payer, single payer.
• Marc Cooper republishes an email from a reader of his. It’s not really pro or con on any of the various immigration proposals. It’s just really interesting.
• The Democratic Daily reports on the California Senators’ request that the EPA allow California to set its own auto emission standards. Dem Daily is a pretty heavily DLC shop — they only give Feinstein props in the headline or the lead paragraph (where they add Republican Olympia Snowe), even though both Boxer and Feinstein (and 18 other Senators) signed the letter to the EPA. So, it’s good to read to understand that part of the party.
• Old Hickory holds forth on nativism and the Mexican flag. Bouphonia reminds us of some earlier immigration concerns, which were also entirely justifiable and based on nothing but respect for the law. And Hoffmania reminds us that most of us are immigrants without proper permission — after you check that post, you should know that I’ve seen “conservative” commenters saying that Native Americans have no cause for complaint, since they didn’t have a shared language or official immigration law. Ah, principle is a fine thing.
• D-Day points out that most business don’t even try to determine the immigration status of their workers, and the government (currently run by Republicans, remember) doesn’t seem all that interested in pressing the question.

On the flip, one will find the Californa Blog Roundup for today, if one is so inclined. Teasers: Absolute disaster with McPherson voter registration database, Reiner resigns, CA-50 polling and Busby immmigration policy, Arnold’s new consultants and their classiness, lots of immigration, a little Doolittle, Some CA-2 and CA-11, Kid Oakland, and a good lawyer.

• State Senator (and candidate for Secretary of State) Debra Bowen responds to the godawful voter registration database problems in Bruce McPherson’s Election Division — 43% new voters rejected in LA County, 26% statewide. Simply unacceptable. Seems to me that this kind of thing is a good argument for a change in the Secretary of State. The Brad Blog has a good explanation of how it happened and exactly how insane it is.
• The California Observer breaks the news that Rob Reiner resigned from the California Children and Families Commission. Arnold still digs Reiner, though.
• Chris Bowers of the mighty MyDD has a look at the latest Survey USA poll in CA-50. Francine Busby seems to have a surprisingly large plurality. San Diego Politics reports that Move On is mobilizing for Busby. Also, they’ve got a report of Kaloogian’s weak weak response to the photo fiasco.
• Down With Tyranny points us to Francine Busby’s immigration proposal, which sounds, well, sane. That’s a nice change from the Republican House, at least.
• Alliance for a Better California has more on the Schwarzenegger consultants, who are clearly from the Bush-Rove school of campaigning. Unsurprisingly, Matthew Dowd sees no distinction between the Schwarzenegger campaign and the California government. This is a core insight of the Rove-driven Republican Party, which we are now seeing replicated in California.
• As Seen from Just Above Sunset excerpts a great piece from an author in New Mexico concerning what it is to be American and Latino.
• Leftcoast at Best of the Blogs argues for an official language as consistent with liberal values. Mark Kleiman makes a similar argument, and throws in some reference to the Know-Nothings and Mickey Kaus as a nice historical context. History may not repeat itself exactly, but it does tend to rhyme.
• Jeanne D’Arc from Body and Soul thinks that the official language idea is not so good. Beautifully written, as always.
• Marc Cooper continues his series on immigration, illegal and otherwise, with a personal story. The comments are fun too. Bill Bradley makes several appearances, as does Mark York.
• left i on the news: it’s funny because it’s true.
• Nite Swimming continues the series on John Doolittle’s money-laundering through his helpmeet. Is a shame lobotomy mandatory, or just recommended, in order to become a Republican House member?
• John Drzal of NorCal Progressive has a profile of the Democratic candidate for CA-2, running against Wally Herger.
• PomboWatch wants to know wny Richard Pombo, head of the House Resource Committee, never did anything for the piñeros.
• I was sure the CA-33 blog was dead, but its proprietor has reported on a Culver City Council race. Click through, and show him some love and encouragement.
• Bouphonia has the funniest response to the Kaloogian photo fiasco I’ve yet seen.
• Kid Oakland finds this century disappointing, at least so far.
• Lies.com has a great story in which some lawyers do some good. I’ve met the Fenwick partner who went to bat for the blogger in this story, and by all accounts he’s a good guy. I’m glad to see him using his skill set this way.

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.

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.