{"id":8786,"date":"2009-05-07T01:39:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-07T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:00:22","slug":"mike-villines-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/07\/mike-villines-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Villines To Step Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the drubbing he&#8217;s getting from his own caucus in the press, this can hardly be a shock to anybody in the Capitol. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/1839964.html\">From CapitolAlert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mike is going to be making an announcement tomorrow morning prior to a 9 a.m. caucus meeting,&#8221; said his spokeswoman, Jennifer Gibbons.<\/p>\n<p>She would not discuss details but indications are that Villines will step aside after a more than two-year reign. It is not clear who his replacement will be. Caucus rules require 15 of the Assembly&#8217;s 29 Republicans to approve the leader and several members could still be scrambling for votes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, my money is on &#8220;anybody but DeVore or Anthony Adams.&#8221; Beyond that, it&#8217;s really rather tough to point out any one of the GOP drones that would be substantially better than the next.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Capitol Weekly reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=xykwqugdkexlkz\">Sam Blakeslee<\/a> will take over for the next 18 months. &nbsp;After that, he&#8217;s termed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the drubbing he&#8217;s getting from his own caucus in the press, this can hardly be a shock to anybody in the Capitol. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/1839964.html\">From CapitolAlert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mike is going to be making an announcement tomorrow morning prior to a 9 a.m. caucus meeting,&#8221; said his spokeswoman, Jennifer Gibbons.<\/p>\n<p>She would not discuss details but indications are that Villines will step aside after a more than two-year reign. It is not clear who his replacement will be. Caucus rules require 15 of the Assembly&#8217;s 29 Republicans to approve the leader and several members could still be scrambling for votes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, my money is on &#8220;anybody but DeVore or Anthony Adams.&#8221; Beyond that, it&#8217;s really rather tough to point out any one of the GOP drones that would be substantially better than the next.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Capitol Weekly reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=xykwqugdkexlkz\">Sam Blakeslee<\/a> will take over for the next 18 months. &nbsp;After that, he&#8217;s termed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1055],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1055"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2hI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}