• According to the latest Field poll released today, the race for Governor is all tied up.  So much for Jerry Brown’s lead after having no primary challenge.  Proves that vibrant primaries ultimately are helpful, at least in my mind.
• As we go into the November elections, nothing presents a more illuminating difference between candidates than ones that have signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge, and those who have not.  By the way, “I don’t sign pledges” is code for “I want to be able to keep tax increases on the table.”
• Have you signed up for the FlashReport Twitter feed?  I very much dislike being chained to Twitter.  That said, I push a lot of information out that way that doesn’t make the FlashReport’s website.  It’s also where we break news first!
• Does anyone out there really think that you should get full-time benefits for part-time work?  Every City Councilmember, School Board member and Water Board member out there (with the exception of big cities with full-time Councilmembers) who take health care benefits (or payment in lieu of) should be ashamed.
• If the legislature isn’t willing to strip the billions of dollars of non-essential spending in the so-called “water bond” – they let’s just leave it on the November ballot, and let the voters crush it like they did Proposition 1A last year.  It represents the product of a bipartisan legislative spending orgy.
• Torey Van Oot’s been really in her groove at the Sacramento Bee.  Who was there before her?  Goldstein?  Goldberg?  Goldmachine?  Oh, who can remember these things?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.