Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaces tonight on Bill Moyers’ PBS show.
** SCHWARZENEGGER OPPOSES PROP 98 EMINENT DOMAIN INITIATIVE ON CALIFORNIA’S JUNE BALLOT. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has just announced his opposition to the Prop 98 eminent domain initiative on the June ballot.
“Eminent domain is an issue worth addressing,” said Schwarzenegger in his statement. “However Proposition 98 would undermine California’s ability to improve our infrastructure, including our water delivery and storage. California voters strongly support rebuilding our transportation, housing, education and water infrastructure, so it would be irresponsible to support a measure that would prevent the state from accomplishing our goals.”
The measure, championed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and other conservative groups, is opposed by a host of groups, from liberal organizations angry about its stealthy preemption of of renters rights and local rent control laws to the California Chamber of Commerce and former Republican Governor Pete Wilson. It was already lagging in recent polling.
** BEGALA SEES OBAMA VICTORY. Longtime top Clinton advisor Paul Begala, speaking at a luncheon held in New York by my old pal Patricia Duff’s group, The Common Good, said that he is “all but certain” that Barack Obama will win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Begala, a longtime fixture as a CNN analyst, is also the longtime compadre of James Carville. Who, with tensions running high, so vociferously attacked New Mexico Governor (and former Clinton Cabinet member) Bill Richardson as “Judas” for his endorsement of the freshman Illinois senator.
** RASMUSSEN NATIONAL POLL: NO PENNSYLVANIA BOUNCE. The Rasmussen national tracking poll shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton, 49% to 42%.
Those numbers are unchanged from the night before and, so far, there is absolutely no indication that Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania has changed the overall dynamic of the race. These results are based upon a four-day rolling average and include two full nights of polling following the Pennsylvania Primary. These results and other data suggest that there is no “momentum” in this Primary Season. Typically, momentum results as voters learn more about a candidate who is doing well. This cycle, Hillary Clinton began the campaign as one of the best known people in the world. Democrats uneasy with her quickly settled on Obama as the chief challenger who has now become the frontrunner. As the candidates have become known, each has developed a solid core of supportive constituencies. For Obama, these included African-Americans, younger voters, more liberal Democrats, and upper-income voters. For Clinton, strength comes from White Women, older voters, more moderate Democrats, and lower-to-middle income workers.
** HERE IS THE NAVY STATEMENT ON A PERSIAN GULF INCIDENT. Released by the 5th Fleet in Bahrain regarding the incident that helped cause an upward move in oil prices. While transiting north in international waters in the Central Arabian Gulf April 24 at approximately 8 a.m. local time, Motor Vessel Westward Venture was approached by two unidentified small boats.
Following proper procedure, Westward Venture issued standard queries to the small boats via bridge-to-bridge radio, but received no response. Westward Venture then activated a flare, which also did not receive a response.
The small boats continued toward Westward Venture and the ship’s embarked security team fired warning shots. The small boats left the area. A short time later, Westward Venture received a query from a unit identifying itself as Iranian Coast Guard. It is not clear if this was one of the small boats or a separate boat. The query was routine and correct.
Westward Venture is a U.S. flagged and chartered roll-on/roll-off ship. It is a cargo ship approximately 1,000 feet long and owned by Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc.
** NEW OIL PRICE RECORD. Crude oil just broke through the $120 per barrel barrier. The renewed upward drive in the oil price is due to the continuing weakness of the dollar against the euro, OPEC’s refusal to increase production levels, an incident in which a US cargo ship (non-military) fired warning shots at some Iranian boats, attacks by Nigerian guerillas against oil pipelines, and a big risk premium built into the price by various geopolitical crises, mostly around the Middle East.
** BIG MOVES AROUND OBAMA. Let’s see. There is the risky re-emergence of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, seen in the clip above from tonight’s PBS appearance, who speaks to the National Press Club next week.
There is an agreement between the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee to form a joint fundraising project, in which contributors to Obama also give to the DNC.
There is the launch of a 50-state voter registration drive by the Obama campaign.
The Wright Stuff is very risky indeed. The man whose outrageous comments seriously upset the Democratic frontrunner’s momentum and raised major questions about his fortunes in the general election is more than a little radioactive.
So Bill and Hillary Clinton might be pleased. Until they consider this. House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, an uncommitted superdelegate, charges them with playing the race card heavily and predicts that black voters who once revered the former president will never trust him again.
And he goes further, to say what an increasing number of observers have been saying privately. Or not so privately.
“The Clintons know she can’t win this,” says Clyburn. “But they’re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win.”
Wright appears on liberal broadcaster Bill Moyers’ show. There’s an interesting connection between the two, which I suspect will be brought out at some point.
Moyers was press secretary for then President Lyndon Johnson. Wright is a former Marine and Navy corpsman who won a commendation for attending to Johnson when he was ill. How does this square with Wright’s angry condemnations of America?
** INDIANA POLLS: STATISTICAL DEAD HEAT FOR DEMS, BUT OBAMA LEADS MCCAIN. A new poll for the Indianapolis Star finds a close race in the Hoosier State. It’s Barack Obama 41%, Hillary Clinton 38%. However, Obama leads John McCain by nine points, while Clinton is tied with the Republican. And by a 49% to 35% margin, Obama is seen as the best general election canddiate.
Another Indiana poll, for the South Bend Tribune (home of Notre Dame University), also finds a dead heat. It’s Obama 48%, Clinton 47%.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama is in Indianapolis and Kokomo, Indiana.
Hillary Clinton is in Bloomington, Gary, and East Chicago, Indiana.
Bill Clinton is in North Bend, Oregon.
John McCain is at Arkansas Baptist College and Oklahoma City.
** SCHWARZENEGGER LIVE WEBCAST THIS MORNING. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joins U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this morning in Los Angeles to announce federal funding for a major congestion reduction program. I suspect Schwarzenegger will have a few choice words off-camera for Peters about the administration’s back-door attempt to preempt California’s climate change laws.
The event will be webcast live at 9:30 AM.
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Last night on The Tonight Show, while discussing climate change and the environment with his friend, host Jay Leno, the former action superstar noted that “Everybody deserves a little Hummer.”
By which he meant, presumably, a smaller and more carbon-friendly version of the Hummer SUV.
** SCHWARZENEGGER LEADS STATES IN COUNTERATTACK AGAINST BACK-DOOR PREEMPTION ATTEMPT ON GREENHOUSE GASES. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and company are mighty unhappy with the Bush White House these days after learning of language buried in a 400-plus page document about fuel efficiency standards that could preempt California’s landmark climate change laws. Former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown was first off the mark on this early this week, with California’s U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer not far behind. Now Schwarzenegger has written to President Bush expressing his displeasure, rounding up the governors of 11 other states to join him in the process.
On Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) used a proposed rulemaking on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in an attempt to preempt our states and others across the nation that are working to control greenhouse gas emissions. States must take this action because the federal government has not adequately responded to this urgent threat.
NHTSA has no authority to preempt states from regulating greenhouse gases. Congress and two federal district courts have rejected NHTSA’s claim to such authority. Furthermore, this attack completely undermines the cooperative federalism principles embodied in the Clean Air Act, and is an end run around 40 years of precedent under that law.
Our states intend to comment on the proposed rulemaking and, if necessary, will sue NHTSA, just as California and other states have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to ensure that states retain the right to reduce global climate change emissions. We hope that you will reconsider this rulemaking on CAFE in light of the crucial efforts undertaken by states to address greenhouse gas emissions.
The eleven other governors joining Schwarzenegger are the governors of Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel.
You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND U.S. ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Crude oil is trading again in record territory in the $119 to $120 per barrel range.
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Jonas Blane:Wright said bad things but he doesn’t seem like a bad guy.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:03 am Capitol Boy:Clyburn is absolutely right on target about what the Clintons are trying to pull. It’s an outrage.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:19 am Capitol Boy:The polls look good.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:22 am Hap Hazard:I am going to be pinning my hopes on Indiana dems recognizing they can have a huge impact on the party’s end game by getting behind Obama in a big way as a native son from just a few miles away.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:30 am Ann:lol
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Last night on The Tonight Show, while discussing climate change and the environment with his friend, host Jay Leno, the former action superstar noted that “Everybody deserves a little Hummer.”
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:32 am Ann:By which he meant, presumably, a smaller and more carbon-friendly version of the Hummer SUV.
Where is Schwazeneger? Stuck in traffic?
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:34 am Ann:There he is.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:36 am Brasky:Like a lot of superdelegates, James Clyburn isn’t uncommitted, he’s “uncommitted,” just like Pres Carter, Pelosi, etc.
They know and we know they’re all backing Obama. Time to stop the games and end this thing. If they don’t end this thing on May 6, the Hell with them.
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:39 am Ann:What happened? Schwarzeneger said it’s always good to try something new and the webcast stopped!
Apr 25, 2008 - 9:59 am Brasky:that was the EPA preemption cutting-in…
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:07 am Bill Bradley:Very nice.
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:18 am Bill Bradley:Technical glitch, they say. The webcast was going well till that point.
>Ann :
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:19 am Bill Bradley:What happened? Schwarzeneger said it’s always good to try something new and the webcast stopped!
Apr 25, 2008 09:59 AM
When the superdelegates finally break, which may not be till June, as many want to avoid the great unpleasantness the Clintons have been known to visit upon people, it will not go as Hillary hopes.
Unless that anvil drops on Obama, of course.
>Brasky :
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:20 am Bill Bradley:Like a lot of superdelegates, James Clyburn isn’t uncommitted, he’s “uncommitted,” just like Pres Carter, Pelosi, etc.
They know and we know they’re all backing Obama. Time to stop the games and end this thing. If they don’t end this thing on May 6, the Hell with them.
Apr 25, 2008 09:39 AM
Indeed.
>Ann :
lol
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Last night on The Tonight Show, while discussing climate change and the environment with his friend, host Jay Leno, the former action superstar noted that “Everybody deserves a little Hummer.”
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:21 am Bill Bradley:By which he meant, presumably, a smaller and more carbon-friendly version of the Hummer SUV.
Apr 25, 2008 09:32 AM
It’s not unusual for the trailing candidate to win a number of late primaries.
Think Jerry Brown over Jimmy Carter in 1976. Ted Kennedy over Jimmy Carter in 1980. Etc.
>Hap Hazard :
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:23 am Bill Bradley:I am going to be pinning my hopes on Indiana dems recognizing they can have a huge impact on the party’s end game by getting behind Obama in a big way as a native son from just a few miles away.
Apr 25, 2008 09:30 AM
I think a lot of people privately agree with what Clyburn said.
>Capitol Boy :
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:24 am Bill Bradley:Clyburn is absolutely right on target about what the Clintons are trying to pull. It’s an outrage.
Apr 25, 2008 09:19 AM
Well, that is their hope, in a nutshell.
>Jonas Blane :
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:25 am Chris M:Wright said bad things but he doesn’t seem like a bad guy.
Apr 25, 2008 09:03 AM
Obama up nine points versus McCain in the general?! Nine?!?!?!
In Indiana?!?!?!
In a state that hasn’t gone for the Dems since 1964?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Now we know why Obama is a game-changer :-).
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:27 am Len:Let’s talk about flag pins and black preachers.
BB: ** NEW OIL PRICE RECORD. Crude oil just broke through the $120 per barrel barrier. The renewed upward drive in the oil price is due to the continuing weakness of the dollar against the euro, OPEC’s refusal to increase production levels, attacks by Nigerian guerillas against oil pipelines, and a big risk premium built into the price by various geopolitical crises, mostly around the Middle East.
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:39 am Ann:lol
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:46 am Brasky:Flag pins are cheaper than a gallon of gas. Amazon has them in the $2 - $3.50 range. Some still made in the USA…
Remember when gas was $2 - $3.50 a gallon? Wow, those were the days…
Anyone want to start a US Gas/Flag Pin Index?
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:58 am Chris M:Here’s why, among other reasons, Obama WILL be the nominee:
http://thepage.time.com/obama-dnc-fundraising-deal/
A joint fundraising and 50-state voter registration campaign with the DNC!
Obama is the one who can bring in the dough and new voters for the Party. Even if he were to lose the general– and I don’t think he will– his campaign will have had enormously positive and long-lasting benefits for the Party.
The Clintons don’t (and never did) have that sort of effect.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:10 am Pat Skipper:…and today McCain visits with all those forgotten Arkansas Baptists, then off to Oklahoma to pay his respects to the forgotten oil men.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:13 am Bill Bradley:Actually, Arkansas Baptist is a black school …
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:29 am Brasky:“HERE IS THE NAVY STATEMENT ON A PERSIAN GULF INCIDENT”
Sounds like another day in Persian Gulf waters. Is Bush looking to turn this into another Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:30 am Bill Bradley:It doesn’t look like it. The Navy statement is pretty noncommittal.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:34 am Bill Bradley:Obama has already registered hundreds of thousands of voters on the fly during the primaries.
>Chris M :
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:36 am Bill Bradley:Here’s why, among other reasons, Obama WILL be the nominee:
[thepage.time.com/obama-dnc-fundr…]
A joint fundraising and 50-state voter registration campaign with the DNC!
Obama is the one who can bring in the dough and new voters for the Party. Even if he were to lose the general– and I don’t think he will– his campaign will have had enormously positive and long-lasting benefits for the Party.
The Clintons don’t (and never did) have that sort of effect.
Apr 25, 2008 11:10 AM
Well, my flag pins cost more than that. Then there are the Ferragamo flag cufflinks given to me by the galpal. Those cost more, too.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:38 am Pat Skipper:>Brasky :
Flag pins are cheaper than a gallon of gas. Amazon has them in the $2 - $3.50 range. Some still made in the USA…
Remember when gas was $2 - $3.50 a gallon? Wow, those were the days…
Anyone want to start a US Gas/Flag Pin Index?
Apr 25, 2008 10:58 AM
Bill Bradley :
Actually, Arkansas Baptist is a black school …
I guess I forgot that.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:39 am Brasky:“The Navy statement is pretty noncommittal.”
That’s the way I read it. During the Cold War, lots of Navy and Air Force guys had lots of these sorts of incidents, if you can call them that. Prior to the 24-hour news grind, we just never heard about it.
Now, lots of Marines are forced into similar situations every day at check points in Iraq and 99% of the time, things happen pretty similarly. I think most grunts would say it sounds like any other Friday – is this thing on the news?
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:48 am Bill Bradley:Sure is on the news. It spooked the oil markets.
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:58 am Bill Bradley:It’s not the week for playing the stereotypical conservative.
>Pat Skipper :
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:59 am Brasky:Bill Bradley :
Actually, Arkansas Baptist is a black school …
I guess I forgot that.
Apr 25, 2008 11:39 AM
“It spooked the oil markets.”
WTF. Someone get these guys a nightlight and a teddy bear for God sakes.
Apr 25, 2008 - 12:11 pm marcos leon:There is no change in the race, like you predicted.
Apr 25, 2008 - 12:29 pm Capitol Boy:At least Paul Begala hasn’t gone crazy.
Apr 25, 2008 - 1:21 pm Brasky:“BEGALA SEES OBAMA VICTORY”
It’s almost like the Democratic Party is undergoing their Reformation.
Apr 25, 2008 - 1:53 pm marcus waldron:I like Begala. I can’t stand Carville. He needs a rabies shot.
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:23 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Mr. Wright’s resurrection will be most interesting. I expect by the end more will have an understanding of the black church that reaches beyond the stereotypes.
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:53 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Mr. Wright’s resurrection will be most interesting. I expect by the end more will have an understanding of the black church that reaches beyond the stereotypes.
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:54 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Sorry for the double- posting.
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:55 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Sorry for the double- posting.
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:56 pm Bill Bradley:No problem.
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:05 pm Bill Bradley:I just saw a daily newspaper blog saying Wright is obviously out to destroy Obama now …
>Jonathan Hemlock :
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:11 pm Bill Bradley:Mr. Wright’s resurrection will be most interesting. I expect by the end more will have an understanding of the black church that reaches beyond the stereotypes.
Apr 25, 2008 02:54 PM
I suspect that party is going to look significantly different in mid-June.
>Brasky :
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:12 pm Brasky:“BEGALA SEES OBAMA VICTORY”
It’s almost like the Democratic Party is undergoing their Reformation.
Apr 25, 2008 01:53 PM
“I suspect that party is going to look significantly different in mid-June.”
I certainly hope so.
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:18 pm Bill Bradley:I actually thought there might be some dip for Obama after Pennsylvania.
>marcos leon :
There is no change in the race, like you predicted.
Apr 25, 2008 12:29 PM
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:21 pm marcus:Is that the way you meant to say that? heh
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:36 pm Bill Bradley:Very nice!
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:41 pm Bill Bradley:Dean keeps saying he, Pelosi, and Reid all agree it has to be done by the end of June.
There are more than enough superdelegates in Congress to push it to Obama, given how close he’ll likely be the night of June 3rd.
>Brasky :
“I suspect that party is going to look significantly different in mid-June.”
I certainly hope so.
Apr 25, 2008 03:18 PM
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:42 pm Capitol Boy:Good for Schwarzenegger coming out No on 98. That is a bad, dishonest initiative.
Apr 25, 2008 - 3:59 pm Brasky:Arnold just killed 98. About time too.
Apr 25, 2008 - 4:05 pm Bill Bradley:Terminated.
Apr 25, 2008 - 4:10 pm Ann:lol
Apr 25, 2008 - 4:15 pm Johnnie Rico:Kill ‘em all.
Apr 25, 2008 - 4:24 pm Hap Hazard:Glad that Arnold came out against 98, which is really bad on eminent domain and dishonest in trying to slip in a rent control provision [which i still wonder how, considering we have a single subject rule]. But I hope he also goes after 99, which is even worse. I am afraid it will be supported by most opinion leaders because it preserves the government’s right to take private real property for sometimes questionable reasons. Which is of course why it is sponsored by League of Cities types.
Apr 25, 2008 - 5:09 pm Jack Aubrey:I’m glad your old pal Patricia Duff gave Paul Begala the forum to get real about Obama and Clinton.
Apr 25, 2008 - 5:14 pm Brasky:Hap - if 99 passes, you can thank Jarvis. The only reason it made the ballot was to counter the horrible 98. Another case of the California Right shooting themselves in the foot again?
Apr 25, 2008 - 5:23 pm Brasky:“Crude oil just broke through the $120 per barrel barrier.”
Just for the record: Oil prices are up 400% since Bush took office.
That’s the ad I drop in Western states at the end of the summer driving season and in the fall when folks in places like Ohio, Penn and Indiana are having fuel-oil delivered.
The best part is, prices are still going up and he’s got another 7 months on the job. Maybe he could get up $150 or so.
Apr 25, 2008 - 5:46 pm Jonas Blane:This is crazy. I thought Bush and Cheney said we’d invade Iraq, get control of their oil, finance the war with the oil revenues and keep our prices down. What happened to that?
Apr 25, 2008 - 5:53 pm Bill Bradley:Ummm …
>Jonas Blane :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:14 pm Bill Bradley:This is crazy. I thought Bush and Cheney said we’d invade Iraq, get control of their oil, finance the war with the oil revenues and keep our prices down. What happened to that?
Apr 25, 2008 05:53 PM
I don’t think it will go that high.
>Brasky :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:15 pm Bill Bradley:“Crude oil just broke through the $120 per barrel barrier.”
Just for the record: Oil prices are up 400% since Bush took office.
That’s the ad I drop in Western states at the end of the summer driving season and in the fall when folks in places like Ohio, Penn and Indiana are having fuel-oil delivered.
The best part is, prices are still going up and he’s got another 7 months on the job. Maybe he could get up $150 or so.
Apr 25, 2008 05:46 PM
That’s right. Prop 99, like many a competing California ballot measure, was designed to help scuttle Prop 98.
>Brasky :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:16 pm Bill Bradley:Hap - if 99 passes, you can thank Jarvis. The only reason it made the ballot was to counter the horrible 98. Another case of the California Right shooting themselves in the foot again?
Apr 25, 2008 05:23 PM
She’s a very thoughtful lady.
>Jack Aubrey :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:18 pm Bill Bradley:I’m glad your old pal Patricia Duff gave Paul Begala the forum to get real about Obama and Clinton.
Apr 25, 2008 05:14 PM
We’ll see.
>Hap Hazard :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:18 pm Bill Bradley:Glad that Arnold came out against 98, which is really bad on eminent domain and dishonest in trying to slip in a rent control provision [which i still wonder how, considering we have a single subject rule]. But I hope he also goes after 99, which is even worse. I am afraid it will be supported by most opinion leaders because it preserves the government’s right to take private real property for sometimes questionable reasons. Which is of course why it is sponsored by League of Cities types.
Apr 25, 2008 05:09 PM
Uh, thanks.
>Johnnie Rico :
Apr 25, 2008 - 6:19 pm Hap Hazard:Kill ‘em all.
Apr 25, 2008 04:24 PM
That’s right. Prop 99, like many a competing California ballot measure, was designed to help scuttle Prop 98. — I am thinking of a great initiative to ban initiatives once I am appointed ruler of California.
Apr 25, 2008 - 7:44 pm Sacramento Solon:Folks,
Far be it for the idiot to venture into the arguement, but had we perhaps confused Proposition 98 with Proposition 13???
Prop 13 was Property Tax…Prop 98 was Education.
Given that, how was Prop 98, a seemingly liberal measure, a case of the Right shooting themselves in the foot?
Have I missed something? Should I continue sipping wine? Should I have myself committed to a home for the mentally feeble? What??? Please help!!! Please!!!
Oh, well, back to the wine..
Before I leave…me beloved Governor thinks we all deserve a little hummer??? Good idea…where can I submit my choice of make and model???
Apr 25, 2008 - 8:56 pm Wilbur:It’s a green thing, Solon. they’re recycling the numbers….
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:02 pm Sacramento Solon:Wilbur,
Thanks. Think I shall go to sleep.
Apr 25, 2008 - 10:15 pm Jonas Blane:What video today?
Apr 26, 2008 - 6:22 am Bill Bradley:It’s the Weekend Edition, so no political video.
Apr 26, 2008 - 8:07 am Bill Bradley:Good call.
>Sacramento Solon :
Apr 25, 2008 10:15 PM
Apr 26, 2008 - 8:08 am Bill Bradley:Wilbur,
Thanks. Think I shall go to sleep.
Ah.
>Hap Hazard :
Apr 26, 2008 - 8:09 am Sacramento Solon:That’s right. Prop 99, like many a competing California ballot measure, was designed to help scuttle Prop 98. — I am thinking of a great initiative to ban initiatives once I am appointed ruler of California.
Apr 25, 2008 07:44 PM
Morning,
Please accept my humble apologies for my stupid post of last evening. Should have read more before I put me fingers, and not my mind, to work. Will do so in the future.
Once again, sorry to have gone brain dead.
Apr 26, 2008 - 9:52 am Bill Bradley:I was fairly certain you were kidding around.
Apr 26, 2008 - 10:57 am