| • AD-10: Alyson Huber gets some earned media for her paid media in a "Ad Watch" column.
• There are tons of stories today about increases in voter registration. San Bernadino County, Santa Clara County, and Sacramento County. These are numbers we've been expecting. Much of this registration is Democratic heavy. In fact, San Bernadino County now reports 10,000 more Dems than Republicans on the voter rolls.
• One of Arnold's vetoes could quite literally kill people. He vetoed a bill to increase the size of the medically uninsurable risk pool, against the advice of his own appointees on the board that oversees the pool. Arnold's reasoning: we can't do anything if we don't do everything.
The governor said "the only solution for our healthcare crisis" is a complete overhaul of the state's healthcare system along the lines of his $14.9-billion plan that the Legislature rejected last January as too expensive.
"We supported wholesale health reform, but this is a population that has nowhere else to go, and he's leaving them high and dry," said Elizabeth Landsberg, legislative advocate for the Western Center on Law & Poverty, a Los Angeles nonprofit. (LA Times 10/28)
Disgusting.
• A fascinating legal case is going to trial in San Francisco. A group of Nigerian villagers are suing Chevron over a protest on one an oil rig in the Niger Delta. The plaintiffs accuse Chevron of drastic human rights violations. Oh, and Chevron is now the #3 oil company in the world. |
