California Blog Round Up, 5/1/06

by: jsw

Mon May 01, 2006 at 17:30:36 PM PDT

OK, here's the California blog roundup for today. There's no immigration in it; I'm going to save all of the immigration posts (and there are lots) for tomorrow, and combine them with those that people write in the evening. Teasers: Lots of California Democratic Party Convention, 15% Doolittle, CA-04, Paid-For Pombo, CA-11, Republican corruption, this & that.

CDP Convention

• Frank Russo has a list of every candidate endorsed at the convention.


• Scott Shields at MyDD doesn't have a dog in the Democratic gubernatorial fight, but thinks that either Westly or Angelides could win. The folks in the comments do have a dog in the fight, though. As an aside, having sat through both candidates' speeches and their press appearance, I found genuinely puzzling Shields' reporting that insiders think Westly has "more charisma".


• Julia Rosen thinks that the endorsement is a good thing, but is not a huge thing. Also, a reasoned argument against negative campaigning, and an interesting take on the primary.


• Greg Dewar has a series of posts up about his experience at the convention: one, two, three, four. I think number four may be most interesting, analyzing the spin on the endorsement of Angelides.


• Here's Julia Rosen's liveblogging of the Convention. And the sequel.


• Frank Russo is stoked about the energy and the young folks. Frank's semi-wrap-up is here.


• For reasons that I can't quite identify, I prefer Marc Cooper's brand of cynicism to certain other pundits.


• Bill Bradley tees up the attacks on Angelides for "hyper-partisanship", even while he discounts the support Angelides receives from Democratic partisans. Okey-dokey.


• Randy Bayne writes about his experience as a volunteer.

15% Doolittle / CA-04

• From Words Have Power, 15% Doolittle pretends that the public doesn't care how corrupt he is.


• Apparently, 15% Doolittle is convinced that his trouble is all the fault of the Sacramento Bee. Reality does have a liberal bias. BTW, I clicked through to read the Op-Ed itself, and it's a fascinating piece of work. 15% Doolittle made his wife part of his campaign apparatus and complains that she should be off-limits. He also repeats the lie that the commission on funds raised is a common practice. Dang.


• And if you're not down with that, Dump Doolittle points you to some collateral you can use if you're in 15% Doolittle's district.

Paid-For Pombo / CA-11

• Down With Tyranny meditates, ferociously, on the CDP's endorsement of Jerry McNerney in CA-11.


• Pombo badness from Progressive 11th. Of note, Pombo's continued imperviousness to facts.


• Pombo Watch reports yet another Pombo no-show at a Republican candidates' forum. This guy really doesn't give a damn.

The Rest

• Words Have Power reminds us that two sitting US Representatives were very very friendly with Duke Cunningham and his pimp, Brent Wilkes. Reps. Duncan Hunder (CA-52) and Jerry Lewis (CA-41) have a lot of explaining to do, and not just to their families.


• Dunner's Stunners on porn, zoning, easter, and the First Amendment.


• More Mendocino shots from Tom Hilton.


• Terry Preston smacks down Daniel Weintraub's simplistic attack on Bill Lockyer.


• Jon Fleischman really wants Schwarzenegger to fire Susan Kennedy. I agree -- she's pretty much the only "bipartisan" prop that Schwarzenegger's got left.


• The Mad Professah endorses Ron Oden for AD-80.