Governor Schwarzenegger’s came into Fresno yesterday and outlined his aggressive support of vocational education. He laid out a comprehensive policy agenda which you can read here.
That said, it was his trip over to the editorial board at the Fresno Bee that has been burning up the blogosphere. While meeting with the Bee folks, when the subject of Rob Reiner came up, for the first time, the Governor was not silent. He said that he has no plans to appoint a new Chairman to the Children and Families First Commission and thus ‘retire’ Reiner. You can read more about this on the main page. Rob Reiner is one of the few people engaged in politics on the left who literally makes me ill. His ideology and view of the proper role of government is so expansive that unnerves me to no end that he continues to play any kind of public-policy role anywhere. This doesn’t even take into account all of the recent revelations about his allegedly directing the use of public funds to promote his centralized pre-school bureaucracy tax increase plan. Reiner is being no friend to the Governor on this, and I write about that on the FR weblog.
FR’s Capitol Correspondent Dan Schnur has penned a fine piece that suggests to the Governor that he should strongly consider eminent domain reform as an election-year strategy towards re-election. FR’s Central Valley Correspondent Mike Der Manouel has his own 10 cents to add on the Governor’s re-election, written like only Mike can write it – very blunt and direct. Both pieces are featured on the main page.
There is a lot of news going on today: Will websites like this one soon be regulated by the Federal Elections Commission? Who will buy Duke Cunningham’s ill-gotten gains, which are about to be auctioned off? The Sheriff’s race in Stanislaus County has become quite a crazy thing.
The most interesting story going on right now is an attempt by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Umberg to have his primary challenger, Democratic County Supervisor Lou Correa removed from the ballot. At issue is that there is a cap on the number of signatures of registered voters you can turn in to qualify. Apparently Correa exceeded this limit substantially. Umberg’s people are trying to say if you look at the first people on his list, up to the limit, there were not enough registered voters to qualify him for the ballot. Seems like a bizarre and uphill case, but interesting nevertheless…
Have a great day!
Jon
PS: Brad Mitzelfelt posted early this morning on Assemblywoman Sharon Runner’s quixotic primary challenger…check it out on the FR Weblog!
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