As if there wasn’t enough happening today…<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jonathan Singer has a good interview<\/a> with Gavin Newsom. In general, Newsom is a very confident, positive guy, but he lets his slip show here:<\/p>\n But the caveat is that unless we have the structural changes, I don’t care who your personality is, it’s going to be very difficult to navigate out of this. So that’s the big difference between Washington, DC and Sacramento. We’re going to have to, as well, at the same time address the structural questions, not just promote a different personality as Governor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not personality but process<\/a>, as we said here back in February.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jerrol LeBaron, a guy from Tujunga, put into circulation The Honor In Politics Act<\/a>, a ballot initiative requiring lawmakers, under penalty of perjury, to swear in an affadavit that they had read a bill before voting for it. If they want to vote against it, all bets are off, I guess.<\/p>\n This initiative ought to be the ballot statement for the initiative ending all initiatives.<\/p>\n \u2022 Good to see that some things never change: Dana Rohrabacher is still as crazy as can be<\/a>. Ah, the stability of instability.<\/p>\n \u2022 We’re up to 53% of Southern California home sales<\/a> coming from foreclosures. So again, sales are up, but prices are way down. And the foreclosures aren’t stopping, so property values continue to plummet with every sale.<\/p>\n \u2022 This is either a symbol of voter anger, or a reminder of the importance of teachers to the community, or a lashing out against school cuts, or just a fake controversy pushed by residents who wanted to get into political office, or something, but voters fired the entire school board in Groveland<\/a>, a town in Tuolumne County, after the board fired a popular math teacher. Kind of a wild story, give it a read.<\/p>\n \u2022 And finally, thanks to John Cole<\/a> for the shout-out to Calitics, and in particular Dave. Welcome Balloon Juice readers! Send us your pet pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As if there wasn’t enough happening today…<\/p>\n \u2022 Jonathan Singer has a good interview<\/a> with Gavin Newsom. In general, Newsom is a very confident, positive guy, but he lets his slip show here:<\/p>\n But the caveat is that unless we have the structural changes, I don’t care who your personality is, it’s going to be very difficult to navigate out of this. So that’s the big difference between Washington, DC and Sacramento. We’re going to have to, as well, at the same time address the structural questions, not just promote a different personality as Governor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not personality but process<\/a>, as we said here back in February.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jerrol LeBaron, a guy from Tujunga, put into circulation The Honor In Politics Act<\/a>, a ballot initiative requiring lawmakers, under penalty of perjury, to swear in an affadavit that they had read a bill before voting for it. If they want to vote against it, all bets are off, I guess.<\/p>\n This initiative ought to be the ballot statement for the initiative ending all initiatives.<\/p>\n \u2022 Good to see that some things never change: Dana Rohrabacher is still as crazy as can be<\/a>. Ah, the stability of instability.<\/p>\n \u2022 We’re up to 53% of Southern California home sales<\/a> coming from foreclosures. So again, sales are up, but prices are way down. And the foreclosures aren’t stopping, so property values continue to plummet with every sale.<\/p>\n \u2022 This is either a symbol of voter anger, or a reminder of the importance of teachers to the community, or a lashing out against school cuts, or just a fake controversy pushed by residents who wanted to get into political office, or something, but voters fired the entire school board in Groveland<\/a>, a town in Tuolumne County, after the board fired a popular math teacher. Kind of a wild story, give it a read.<\/p>\n