FLASHREPORT

Abel Maldonado is certainly consistent.  He likes to sign commitments and then break them.  We've written plenty about his signature on the Americans for Tax Reform No New Taxes pledge -- the one he signed voluntarily with no one holding a gun to his head.  Maldonado then rather infamously was a key vote in February to hit Californians with the largest tax increase in the history of any state -- increasing the car, sales and income taxes for a projected tax increase of over $16 billion.  Nice.

Well, apparently Maldonado signed something else besides the ATR pledge -- he signed an endorsement card for the Lt. Governor campaign of his colleague, Jeff Denham!  As a matter of fact, Maldonado, who has now announced that whether he is confirmed or not by the legislature he is going to seek the Republican nomination for the LG position, still has his name listed as an endorser of Denham's -- check it out here (if it is hard to find it, that's because Denham has been the Energizer Bunny of endorsement collection, and there are like 50,000 endorsements listed).

There is a pattern here, don't you think?