Matt Lauer Involved in Another CA Governor’s Race
Of course, Jerry Brown would take the deal offered by Matt
Lauer to pull his "negative ads." Brown benefits from such a deal.
Today Show host
Matt Lauer, conducting an interview session with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
and governor hopefuls Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman at the Women’s Conference, brought
a rather sedate session to life by proposing the two candidates pull "negative"
campaign ads.
Reforming California Measure by Measure
As President Obama and lame duck Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have
learned the hard way, complete overhauls or transformations are rare in
American politics. Incrementalism is the general rule even here in California
despite our reputation for exporting revolutionary
ideas. California has been in
acute crisis mode for the better part of the last two decades as made stark in
two new books, Remaking
California and California
Crackup. That’s a
generation-load of opportunity gone to waste. Pundits Mark Paul and Joe Mathews close their
reform-blueprint book, California Crackup, with a reminder of the scroll on
display in the state capitol: "Bring Me Men to Match My Mountains!" It is call to arms for all reformers.
Final Report on Targeted State Assembly Races
In November 2008, Barack Obama outpolled John McCain in 12
of 29 assembly seats that are currently held by a Republican.
At the early beginning of this election cycle – with Obama’s
popularity in this state above 60 percent – I predicted that the Democratic
Assembly leadership would make a serious effort to increase their numbers and
maybe be able to pick up the three seats needed for a super two-thirds
majority.
November 2010, I predicted, was going to be one of the most
competitive election cycles in the battle for assembly seats than this state
has seen in more than a decade.
L.A.’s Pension for Payouts
In case you haven’t noticed, cities and other governments across California are in competition to see which ones can bankrupt themselves first by heaping ungodly cash on ex-bureaucrats. And it’s a pretty exciting race. https:>
Now, pension payouts never used to be a big whoop when it came to budget expenses of governments. No more. Your creative government-elected officials have sure seen to that.