Just two weeks after the revelation that Meg Whitman, the anointed GOP candidate for governor, did not register to vote until she was 46 years old, a new poll finds her tied with former Rep. Tom Campbell, who had been trailing against Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.

You probably heard that Mike Duvall, the married GOP pol with a 100% anti-gay marriage, pro-family rating, was caught on tape bragging about spanking one of his two mistresses, but some of his comments were a lot more, um, vivid.

For all her histrionics about not accepting stimulus money, guess whose state got the most, per capita? According to a fascinating resource, Alaska is receiving $1,024.28 for each of its 686,293 Alaskans.
California is (obviously) getting the largest total amount: a whopping $15,719,496,704 to be exact. But that only breaks down to $427.66 for each [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s pollling may be at an all-time low, but he is lucky it is as high as it is considering what a wretched job he did during the budget negotiations:
In a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, only 28 percent of respondents were happy with Schwarzenegger’s performance, the worst rating of [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger, left, and Speaker Bass
Things are bad here in California. Yes, we have the world’s fifth largest economy — we’d be a member of the G-8, if we were a sovereign nation. But the sky is falling for real this time. The state is $26 billion in the hole.
“He broke it. He should [...]

I’m not a parade-goer by nature, but the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade — with its marching bands, loudspeakers and thumpa-thumpa disco trucks — passes so close to our house in West Hollywood that our large spotted cat Zig hides under the bed for the duration.
MORE PHOTOSYesterday, I posted photos from the parade of [...]

At the same time that California has become the poster child for states with budget deficits, the Los Angeles City Council is moving to shut down one of the bright spots in the local economy — medical marijuana dispensaries.
The issue is NIMBY, not morality or a drug warrior mentality, per se.
In 2004, there were just [...]

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi:
“How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq, so that we have those people available here to help us?”
“I’ve got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here. How many times did he go to New York or to New Orleans and still made promises but hasn’t delivered. [...]

One of the central issues in Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, was a phony claim that Davis wanted to raise the California “car tax.” In reality:
Raising fees on driving is a dead certain way to tick off Californians of every political stripe.
[The Vehicle License Fee had [...]

Republicans know they can never win California on the merits so they are trying a Tom Delay-esque rigging of the vote next year that would give the GOP presidential candidate one electoral college vote for each of the state’s 55 House districts he wins. Had the system been in place in 2004, Bush-Cheney would have [...]