The CA High Speed Rail Commission is on the hunt for a PR firm. And why not choose the firm that has Arnold’s political cronies?<\/p>\n
California’s high speed rail commission, dominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees, is set to award a $9-million contract today to a company led by the governor’s top political advisor and his former campaign manager.<\/p>\n
The three commission staff members charged with recommending a public relations firm have advised the board to give the contract to Mercury Public Affairs at its meeting today. Schwarzenegger strategist Adam Mendelsohn is a partner at Mercury, as is Steve Schmidt, who managed the governor’s 2006 reelection effort. (LA Times 9\/3\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Also of note, former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nu\u00f1ez is also a partner at the firm. Now, it can very well be argued that Mercury offered the best value proposition, but it could also just gives that whiff of a payback.<\/p>\n
The deal still must be confirmed by the whole commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The CA High Speed Rail Commission is on the hunt for a PR firm. And why not choose the firm that has Arnold’s political cronies?<\/p>\n
California’s high speed rail commission, dominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees, is set to award a $9-million contract today to a company led by the governor’s top political advisor and his former campaign manager.<\/p>\n
The three commission staff members charged with recommending a public relations firm have advised the board to give the contract to Mercury Public Affairs at its meeting today. Schwarzenegger strategist Adam Mendelsohn is a partner at Mercury, as is Steve Schmidt, who managed the governor’s 2006 reelection effort. (LA Times 9\/3\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Also of note, former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nu\u00f1ez is also a partner at the firm. Now, it can very well be argued that Mercury offered the best value proposition, but it could also just gives that whiff of a payback.<\/p>\n
The deal still must be confirmed by the whole commission.<\/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":[32],"tags":[4736],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","tag-4736"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2B6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}