Today’s California Blog Roundup is on the flip. Teasers: Phil Angelides, Arnold Schwarzenegger, CA-50, CA-04, CA-11, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, Brian Bilbray, corruption, environment, budget, initiatives, salmon, other environment, clean money.
More Initatives. Oy.
Governor’s Race
- The Citizens are not happy with the attempt by Schwarzenegger’s OHS to turn California into their own Mars colony.
- Schwarzenegger seems to think that fixing health care, like slowing global warming, simply requires more study after he’s re-elected. He’s really committed to getting right on the problem once he gets the results from that study after he’s re-elected. Seriously, there’s nothing he can do or commit to until after he’s re-elected.
- Mmmm… tasty posturing. Seriously, is there a Republican out there who actually wants to govern from office, not campaign?
- ABC has a roundup of the papers on the Schwarzenegger campaign finance violation and fine, including links and context.
- Sierra Club endorses Angelides. Schwarzenegger ignored them, but he’s diggin’ big oil — some green Gov, huh?
- Nice catch, Frank. Schwarzenegger: no plan to eliminate state’s structural deficit. But he’ll put together a study group, after he’s re-elected.
- Ms. Geek knows what to say about Schwarzenegger’ failure to plan.
- Sometimes, your nasty attack ad is just a little too catchy. Oops.
Bilbray / CA-50
Paid-For Pombo / CA-11
15% Doolittle / CA-04
- Abramoff pays Julie Doolittle. 15% Doolittle, devout anti-gambling religious Mormon helps out Abramoff’s Indian gaming clients. Move along. No corruption here. 15% Doolittle can’t be bought. He’s an upright man, a family man, a religious man.
- Dump Doolittle points us to an Auburn Journal piece on the bases of support for the two CA-04 candidates.
- So here’s how our federal government “works” after 12 years of Republican majority rule: citizens pay our taxes, federal representatives ignore us and our local governments until our local governments use our taxes pay lobbyists, lobbyists give the federal reps campaign donations, fancy dinners, junkets, and jobs, and then our taxes sometimes come back to some of us (less a percentage off the top) on that basis. The Republicans: standing for the right to get rich in government since at least 1994.
Other Republican Paragons
Environment
Reform
Legislature
Miscellany
- Getting the yoot vote: P2P.
- Tom Hilton responds to Brian’s prison post: either get serious about rehabilitation, or institute a one-strike rule. Your call, Californians.
- From Speak Out CA, Margaret Dooley on the attempt to gut Prop 36 by jailing some of the people in treatment. Seems one of the core rationales behind it is the belief that there are no drugs in prison.
- Bob Brigham asks: where is the Victory Fund in supporting out lesbian Cynthia Matthews in her run against David Dreier in CA-26?
- Bubble bye-bye bad. ‘Nuff said.
- Bob Harris on big oil. He’s … ah … disapproving.
- WTF, DiFi? No, seriously, WTF?
- Happy Birthday to Words Have Power. Buck up, little camper!
- Eric, I am so with you, man. D-Day, I feel your pain too.
