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11 days and who cares
To continue the politics theme for one more item, the California presidential primary is less than two weeks away. But as Kevin Drum at Calpundit points out today, nobody's really talking about it. Contrast this quietude to the way everybody was buzzing about the recall less than five months ago.
Vanessa Kerry, the Democrat's medical student daughter, will try to create some excitement in Southern California this weekend. She's at Claremont McKenna College and USC tomorrow and at Pepperdine and UCLA on Monday. On Sunday at 2 p.m. she will help open the Kerry headquarters at Pico and Fairfax.
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It'd be nice if Howard Kaloogian gets nominated for the Senate.
The Yes on 56 ads talk about "special interests" funding the No side. Then they spend half the ad's time listing a benign-sounding set of supporters of their side.
The facts appear to be as follows:
No on 56: less than $5 million from oil, tobacco, alcohol, and insurance companies.
Yes on 56: more than $9 million dollars from the SEIU and various teacher's unions.
Somehow I think the SEIU and the teacher's unions are about as much of a "special interest" as you can get, and I don't want to be on the same side as them on just about any issue.
Consider also this from 7/03:
Unbeknown to them, a group of Assembly Democrats' private gab session about the state budget impasse -- including the political implications of accepting a Republican-driven spending plan without tax hikes -- was broadcast across the Capitol on Monday...
The lawmakers also discussed how the budget impasse would affect a planned ballot initiative that some Democrats are pressing. The initiative would ask voters to reduce the required threshold to approve a budget to 55 percent of the Legislature instead of the current two-thirds requirement. At least one legislator said that a longer delay would help the case for lowering the threshold.
Posted by: Lonewacko at February 21, 2004 01:08 PM"Since this is going to be a crisis, the crisis could be this year. No one's running, and maybe you end up better off than you would have, and maybe you don't. But what you do is you show people that you can't get to this without a 55 percent vote," said Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles...