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My 2nd Donation

Brian Leubitz — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:13:37 GMT

It won't win any elections, but props out to Gary for running this race. Good Luck!!

Well, we beat this subject to death...

gjones — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:10:37 GMT

... a couple of months ago. See here: http://www.calitics.com/showDi...

As opposed to...

BruinKid — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:29 GMT

the California Amateur Firefighters? :-)

So... has she been an environmental leader or not? Just got a mailer from Lloyd Levine calling out Pavley for saying she's the "grassroots" candidate, and pointing out she's gotten $$$ from big corporations. I dunno, been getting mailers from both campaigns.

State Senate Strategery, or Lack Thereof

ortcutt — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:50:08 GMT

The really sad thing to my mind is that we've got a D on the ballot in SD-33 (a district where Republicans outnumber Democrats by about 115,000 registrants), but no Democrat filed to run in SD-15 (where there are 17,000 more Democrats than Republicans). How screwed up is that? What is wrong with the CDP that that was allowed to happen?

For the most part a good solid speech...

A.Citizen — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:14:35 GMT

I did not like this:

The laptops on our desk should remind all of us that the California visionaries who founded Silicon Valley in a garage, have changed the way the world lives, learns and leads.

As the image undercuts what actually happened. This is better:

And it's no coincidence the biotech industry was founded here when more than 50 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University of California.

...but still ignores the effect the two Governor Browns had sinking billions into the UC and community college system so the 'garage geniuses' would have an intellectual infrastructure upon which to build their amazing growth industries. A missed opportunity to educate the people about the reality of our society's dependence on education and how spending money on it is in the words of the 'conservative' moron wing of government an 'investment in the future.' not as they are so fond of bloviating, 'A waste of taxpayer money. A word about the effect strong publicinstitutions of higher learning have on the state they are located in. Only a million words written on this but here....(((((((((crickets)))))))))

Nails it here:

Most importantly, we have to ask the question of whether a tax structure that was established in the 1930s is sufficient to meet the needs of Californians in 2008.
And, frankly, members I think we need an answer to that question that is developed outside the day-to-day give-and-take here in the legislature.

Wow! Just right and gives the ratfuck ReThugs a hole to retreat through which is good tactics.

Whoops....same old Dem story, a good idea, and then:

I have asked 2 former Governor's - Governor Pete Wilson and Governor Grey Davis to assist the legislature...

Neither of these guys can find their asses with with either hand unless there are thirty lobbyists on hand to guide the tissue home. Just awful. Just pathetically 'bi-partisan'.

C- mainly for including the last two CA pols on the planet you want inside your tent. Wilson and David are far more apt to piss on Rep. Bass than find the flap to the outside.

Really goes off the road and into the ditch with that very dumb move. Better to have said, 'Eminent so and so's to be appointed later.

Nobody outside Sacramento ever wants to hear those two idiots names again. Much less in conjunction with taxes.

Very, very dumb.

Not EdVoice

petercharles — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:16:44 GMT

The disclaimer on the piece says it was paid for by the California Professional Firefighters

Indeed!

cali_girl_in_texas — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:49:52 GMT

First in the House (and held by one of our own), and now in our Assembly! :D