Former California Governor Gray Davis, right, speaks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as former Governor Pete Wilson, left, looks on, during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.
The California budget stalemate ended this week but all is not well with the state budget.
It is ironic that Governor Schwarzenegger is being touched above by former California Governor Gray Davis who was recalled (and replaced by Arnold) partly because of his huge budget deficits.
Tom McClintock, Flap’s California State Senator sees stormy economic clouds on the horizon.
Flap sees tax increases or bonds to raise state revenue because the Governor cannot control spending. If the economy goes south, the Governator may be in the same predicament as his predecessor, Gray Davis.
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Alicia Unger, a reporter for the Spanish-language network Azteca America, has filed a claim against the City of Los Angeles for her rough treatment by the Los Angeles Port Police on August 3rd.
As the reader recalls she was running to obtain comment from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa regarding his affair with Telemundo political reporter Mirthala Salinas.
She seeks damages and the City has 45 days to either accept or reject the claim.
Any bets on a settlement in this one?
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Graphic Courtesy of California Majority Report
Although he added he wasn’t versed in details of the ballot proposal and stressed he wasn’t taking a definitive position his lack of enthusiasm may damper fundraising efforts.
Also, there is another electoral college reform initiative pending in the Attorney General’s office. And this initiative is created by governor’s former attorney Thomas Hiltachk and ex-advisor Marty Wilson.
The “Presidential Election Reform Act” is here.
Is the Governor remaining non-committal because he favors the “OTHER” initiative or using both as bargaining chips over the Democrat controlled Legislature for redistricting reform?
In any case, the Democrats are not sitting still and have submitted a counter-initiative, “National Popular Vote” counter-initiative, which would have the state’s electoral votes go to whoever wins the national popular vote.
If you are afraid you cannot defeat a measure directly at the polls, why not create confusion where both measures go down to defeat – a long-time used tactic in California Initiative politics. This is the apparent strategy here.
The Presidential Election Reform Act is due to be reported out of the Attorney General’s office on September 5th and begin circulation for signatures.
Stay tuned…….
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Remember California Democrat Congressman Robert Filner who was charged with Assault and Battery in an altercation last week at Dulles International Airport.
Filner is in Iraq now but will be returning to speak before the American Legion next week. Democrat Filner is the Chairman, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives.
In the meantime, Fox News is reporting that this altercation at Dulles is not the ONLY brush-up Filner has had with the law.
Now the Copley News Service is reporting that Filner tried to bully his way into a California immigration detention facility four years ago and officers there called local police for assistance. A Justice Department incident report says Filner tried to push his way past immigration officers after being denied immediate access to a detainee. A supervisor quotes Filner as challenging detention officers by saying, “Are you going to stop me, big man? Are you going to shoot me? Are you going to arrest me?”
The supervisor adds that Filner also said, “I am a congressman and can do whatever I want.”
Is the incident at Dulles yet another Cynthia McKinney moment for Representative Filner?
Apparently so.
Flap looks forward to his explanation when he returns from Iraq.
Representative Robert Filner D-California
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