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Things to do this weekend

• DownWithTyranny!: BLUE AMERICA WELCOMES RON SHEPSTON, A
  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLOGGER WHO’S CHALLENGING THE MOST EXTREME
  RIGHT-WINGER IN THE STATE
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/blue-america-welcomes-ron-shepston.html

Modern Republican
“Reformers”

• Daily Kos: Slate: California Electoral College initiative
  is unconstitutional
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/13/235126/031
• The Bayne of Blog: Ruling that helped
  GOP win Florida in ’00 likely to thwart them in California in ’08
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/09/ruling-that-helped-gop-win-florida-in.html
• Erik Love @ Courage Campaign | The Constitution Can’t
  Make Dirty Tricks Clean
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/eriklove/Bh7

Air, Land, Water, Energy

• California
  Progress Report – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: California Fish and
  Game
  Commissioner Under Fire For Attempting to Do His Job
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/no_good_deed_go.html
• California
  Progress Report – Almost Paradise: If Only California Family Farms
  Survived
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/almost_paradise.html
• California
  Progress Report – California Legislature 2007: Some Hard Fought Wins in
  Air
  and Water–Toxics Measures Tank–Two of Biggest Environmental Bills
  Will Wait Until Next Year
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_legi_15.html
• LAist: Fun with water conservation!
  http://laist.com/2007/09/14/fun_with_water.php
• Sierra Club California Blog Spot: 2007 Legislative Session
  Wraps Up With Some Progress On Energy, Air And Flood Protection, But
  Puts Off Important Work On Land Use, Ports And Toxics
  http://sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2007/09/2007-legislative-session-wraps-up-with.html
• California
  Progress Report – Refreshing News: Deluge of Strong Flood Policy Bills
  Heads
  to Governor Schwarzenegger
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/refreshing_news.html
• voiceofsandiego.org: Opinion… Myths and Facts
  http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/09/15/opinion/02niggli091307.txt

Local News

• Left In SF » Treating People Like Cattle II
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2187
• The Ojai Post | Valley of Diversity
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/valley_of_diversity.shtml
• LA Observed: Clearing out at the Weekly
  http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/clearing_out_at_the_weekl.php
• BeyondChron: Proposition G: A Slap in the Face at Youth
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4913#more
• Metroblogging San Francisco: Mayoral Candidate Shocked
  She’s Off Pelosi’s A-List
  http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2007/09/mayoral_candidate_shocked_shes.phtml
• Badlands Journal » Blog Archive »
  Proximity to a boom-doggle
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=381

All The Rest

• California
  Progress Report – California Legislature Demands UC Workers Get Voice
  On
  Pensions
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_legi_14.html
• The Left Coaster: Letter From California
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011013.php
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2295
• Firedoglake »
  That’s The Stuff Leaders Are Made Of
  http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/14/11639/
• Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports: The Irvine Law School
  Fiasco, Part II
  http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2007/09/the-irvine-law-.html
• Dump Doolittle: CA-04 Blood in the Water
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/ca-04-blood-in-water.html
• The Mad Professah Lectures: EQCA Launches 10, 000 For
  Marriage Campaign
  http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/09/eqca-launches-10-000-for-marriage.html
• The Bayne of Blog: Beward of an
  individual health care mandate
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/09/beward-of-individual-health-care.html

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When I was a student, we
called this cramming — didn’t work very well then either

• California Progress Report – Sentencing Commission Law
  Among Over 200 Bills Left for the Last Day of
  the 2007 California Legislative Session
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/sentencing_comm.html
• California Progress Report – Three Ring Circus in
  Sacramento: Special Session on Health and Water,
  Tonight is Deadline for Governor to Decide Whether to Allow Iraq Vote,
  A Flood of Bills Pass by the Hour Including More Flood Safety
  Legislation
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/three_ring_circ.html
• California Progress Report – California State Senate
  Adjourns 2007 Session While Bizarre Middle
  of the Night Hearing Held on Newly Minted Prison Guard Pay Bill
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_17.html
• The Liberal OC » Leno/DeVore Industrial Hemp Bill
  Passes
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/lenodevore-industrial-hemp-bill-passes/
• California Progress Report – End of Session: California
  Legislation That Passed to the Governor’s
  Desk–And Why You May See Some Zombies Today
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/end_of_session_2.html

The Librul Academy: or
how the taxpayers of California still employ John Yoo as a law
professor at UC Berkeley

• Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports: New UC Irvine Law School
  Hires Chemerinsky as Dean, Then Fires Him for Political Reasons
  http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2007/09/new-uc-irvine-l.html
• The Left Coaster: Who Controls The UC Regents?
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011001.php
• The Liberal OC » Too liberal for OC?
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/too-liberal-for-oc/

Big fish, smaller ponds

• Left In SF » What’s the alternative to
  Wi-Fi?
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2180
• Left In SF » You’re fired!
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2181
• Brian Dennert here: Ventura City Council Candidate
  http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/2007/09/ventura_city_el.html
• Working Californians | DWP is on the hot seat over outages
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/11/dwp_is_on_the_hot_seat_over_outages
• The Ojai Post – Stop the Trucks: Overweight Trucks Damage
  Infrastructure
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/stop_the_trucks_overweight_tru.shtml
• BeyondChron » Was Newsom Firing Spree a Ploy to
  Raise Campaign Cash?
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4906#more

Candidates are people too

• Dump Doolittle: Natural Selection
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-selection.html
• From the Fever Swamp: Harman Pre-Emptively Negotiates Away
  Our Constitional Rights
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/harman-pre-emptively-negotiates-away.html
• Daily Kos: CA-52: Dems recruit Navy SEAL
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/12/121658/354
• DownWithTyranny!: LYNN WOOLSEY TAKES A REAL LEADERSHIP
  STAND– TELLS PROGRESSIVES TO TAKE ON REACTIONARY INCUMBENTS
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/lynn-woolsey-takes-real-leadership.html

Everything else

• Media Matters – AP reported California GOP “endorsed”
  Electoral College measure, but not that top GOP lawyer initiated it
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100001
• Media Matters – Fox News’ Estrich misrepresented California
  Democratic electoral vote initiatives
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100004
• The California Majority Report // Tuesday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2290
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2291
• The Left Coaster: shouting fire in a crowded landscape
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010991.php
• California Progress Report – Senator Sheila
  Kuehl’s Floor Statement Health Care Reform and AB 8
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/senator_sheila.html
• Badlands Journal » Growth robs water from
  existing residents
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=380
• California Policy Inbox » California Shows
  Steepest Decline Nationally in Number of Gun Dealers
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=384
• The BRAD BLOG : The California Top-To-Bottom Review Is
  Still Incomplete
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5053
• Politics in the Zeros » Tar sands: The oil
  junkie’s last fix
  http://polizeros.com/2007/09/12/tar-sands-the-oil-junkies-last-fix/
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign | Grocery Companies Want
  Employees To Pay Share of Health Care Costs
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Bh9
• cab drollery: A Sense Of Democracy
  http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/sense-of-democracy.html
• BeyondChron: San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily News
  » Nationwide Housing “Crash” A Boon for
  Landlords
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4905#more
• California Progress Report – Democracy Under Attack Right
  Here in California by Those Who Block Ballot Petitions
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/democracy_under.html

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Local Matters

• Left In SF » Wi-Fi: Gavin Newsom and Meraki
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2130
• The Ojai Post: An Abuser Friendly Experiment in Government
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/an_abuser_friendly_experiment.shtml
• The Ojai Post: Planning Commission Rejects Proposals
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/planning_commission_rejects_pr.shtml
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Dunning: Populist or Social
  Conservative or Perhaps Both?
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/dunning-populist-or-social-conservative.html

The Remainder

• California Progress Report California Supreme Court to Hear
  Same Sex Marriage Case –
  Why Domestic Partner Laws Are Not Enough
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_supr.html
• The Bayne of Blog: Doolittle challenge
  pool grows in race for 4th CD
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/doolittle-challenge-pool-grows-in-race.html
• California Progress Report: Vacation Themed Rally for
  California Budget at the State
  Capitol
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/vacation_themed.html
• California Progress Report: Do We Want a Mercenary Army in
  California?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/do_we_want_a_me.html
• California Progress Report: When the Innocent Go to Prison
  in California, the Guilty Go
  Free
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/when_the_innoce.html
• The Bayne of Blog: Developing a good
  farm team is critical to legislative make up
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/developing-good-farm-team-is-critical.html
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2178
• The California Majority Report // Going Out on a Limb:
  Comprehensive Health Care Will Pass with Schwarzenegger’s Help
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2180
• California Policy Inbox » Giuliani Still Leads
  Potential GOP Presidential Candidates
  in California
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=373
• The BRAD BLOG: ‘DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS, INC.’ IS NO
  MORE! (At Least in Name)
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4962

The California Blog Roundup is back, baybee. Teasers: Presidential primaries, Nancy Pelosi and the First 100 Hours, Merced, Los Angeles, Ojai, San Diego (Carol Lam), Davis, Mark Leno, Carole Migden, Iraq, John Doolittle, CA-11, Gary Miller, CA-42, Ken Calvert, CA-44, Global Warming, Health Care.

The Silly Season is upon us

• At The California Progress Report, Kenneth Burt of the CTO opines that the 2008 Presidential Race will be focused on the West, and that’s a good thing.
• I don’t always agree with Joe Scott, but I almost always enjoy reading him. Here he’s discussing the possible move of the CA Presidential Primary all the way up to February as (my paraphrase) another Schwarzenegger power grab.
• D-Day says moving up the primary will increase the importance of the money race above all else. Isn’t that just what we need, though?

Boy, Nancy

• Mark Kleiman (two K’s) responds to the First 100 Hours. He’s pretty happy with Pelosi’s performance.
• Marc Cooper (two C’s) is not as happy — he wants more.

Local Politics

• I don’t know as much of the backstory here as I should, but BadLands Journal has an interesting piece up about the failure to plan in Merced, revolving around UC Merced and House Member Dennis Cardoza.
• Fascinating. Jaime de la Vega, Transportation Deputy for LA Mayor and presumed gubernatorial candiate Antonio Villaraigosa, apparently drives a frickin’ Hummer. Look, nobody, and I mean nobody, who lives full time in LA needs an SUV. And a Hummer just basically shouts “I’m a tool!” at the top of its lungs.
• The Voice of San Diego has some thoughts on Fmr. United States Attorney Carol Lam, apparently pushed out by the Bush Administration mid-term.
• The Ojai Post opposing additional gravel truck traffic on the local artery. Local politics is all about this sort of thing: it ain’t sexy, but it’s important.
• Eric Kirk’s SoHum Parlance discusses the Eureka Reporter’s submission to the hecklers’ veto of a Muslim voice. The comments are, ah, instructive.
• The Davis Vanguard has a local politics roundup.
• Hooooh, boy, SF politics are going to be interesting over the next couple years.

Republican Paragons

• 15% Doolittle: “I am not a crook!. Bob Ney, now he’s a crook!”
• Howie Klein on CA-42 and CA-44 as wastelands, scoured clean of morality.
• SteveAudio on why we could call the homeless “St. Ronnie’s Army“.

Iraq is Here

• Crosses in Lafayette, sorrow across the country.
• Does anyone else remember the late-season M*A*S*H when Hawkeye had a nightmare about floating, armless, in a lake filled with amputated limbs? Maybe we should all try to think about that a bit more.

The Rest

• Donald Lathbury on the Berkeley Governor’s race recap that took place at Cal this weekend.
• Frank Russo’s initial impressions of the same event. He promises more soon.
• One of our friends, Wu Ming of Surf Putah, goes into a bit more detail on global warming and California.
• The Brad Blog watches Jeff Stone, Riverside County Supervisor, back away from a bet on the security of the paperless, untrackable, unverifiable Sequoia election machines Riverside County currently uses. I’m hoping Sec. Bowen makes this a moot point soon.
• Oh, yeah, we’re all meta ‘n’ stuff now. Frank Russo on Bob Brigham on Lisa Vorderbrueggen on bloggers on Ellen Tauscher.
• paradox at The Left Coaster is pessimistic about any real progress on universal coverage with Schwarzenegger at the helm.

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