Today’s California Blog Roundup is on the flip. Teasers:Infrastructure Bonds, Governor’s Race, Immigration, 15% Doolittle, Paid-For Pombo, LA-area Assembly Races, some cynicism, Latinos as a power, labor, and some pictures.
Infrastructure Bonds
- Bonds during the day yesterday.
- Bonds today from ABC.
- Bonds today from California Progress Report.
- Bonds today from Bill Bradley.
- Bonds tomorrow from Randy Bayne.
Governor’s Race
- Julia Rosen from ABC sends us to the Washington Post for an outside perspective on the Governor’s race. Shortest: California is big, nasty, and expensive. See also, this ABC post, which suggests that the race is also largely unpredictable.
- Angelides’ new ad. Not bad, IMO, but relying very heavily on the endorsement proxy-race.
Immigration
- Demosthenes at BTC News wraps some historical and personal context around the immigration issue. Terry Preston suggests that history repeats itself regularly on this issue.
- Cab Drollery has some brief thoughts on why federalism is not a good answer to concerns about immigration.
CA-4 and CA-11
- 15% Doolittle likes things just as they are. No ethics, no change. Inertia is profitable.
- Oh, and SNTP also points us to CREW ethics and IRS complaints against Richard Pombo. It’s all about the Benjamins with him, apparently.
- Say No To Pombo has a good post and really dense discussion thread concerning the DCCC’s involvement in CA-11 and other primaries.
Everything Else
- The Mad Professah adds some context to an LA Times piece on the AD-45 primary.
- Mayor Sam’s Sister City has a couple endorsement updates in AD-42 and AD-44.
- Rising Q1 foreclosure rates in California part of a longer trend.
- Guest-posting at California Progress Report, the President of PowerPAC argues that Latinos are the slumbering electoral giant in California.
- Final CDP convention post by Greg Dewar. He’s not even a little bit cynical.
- Marc Cooper lets us know about the California Legislature’s golf fundraiser with AT&T. He’s maybe a little bit cynical. Public financing, people.
- Randy Bayne attended the California Labor Federation Legislative right after the CDP Convention and gives us his impressions. See also Randy on small businesses and the minimum wage.
- Tom Hilton has two last posts with Mendocino picture sets: one and two.