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Earlier this month we reported that California was in a bit of a quandary. They were bound and determined to have a single payer health plan for their citizens no matter what the Republicans wanted to do on the national level. And by golly, they got a plan put together in the state legislature and moved it out of committee, despite the fact that it was going to cost more than the total GDP of the state. Then it made it out onto the floor of the Assembly. As Leslie Eastman of Legal Insurrection tells us, the cold light of...

Sacramento -- Democrat Steve Westly, who officially jumps into the 2006 race for governor today, said in an interview Friday that his high-tech background and problem-solving skills as state controller make him most qualified to take on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Everybody understands that we have to prepare for California's future," he said. "We have to create more jobs and reform the schools. I have a track record in the high-tech world, as a classroom teacher, and as controller innovated ways to bring new money into the system." But before Westly can take on Schwarzenegger, he must convince Democrats that he...