Posted on 06/19/2007 8:01:07 AM PDT by SmithL
The California Senate soon will show whether it is a wholly owned subsidiary of the prison guards' union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). The union, which is in the midst of contentious negotiations over a new contract with the state, opposes confirmation of the state's chief labor negotiator, Dave Gilb.
The Senate Rules Committee must vote on Gilb's nomination this week or next to meet a July 1 deadline.
The union is displeased that the state asked for negotiations to be submitted to mediation. Where Gilb believes mediation is the "best path to get to an agreement," a CCPOA spokesman told The Bee last month that the mediation process is "idiotic" and "stupid," and unlikely to move negotiations forward.
If the Senate Rules Committee fails to confirm Gilb's nomination, it will be a sign that senators are siding with the union before real contract negotiations get under way, a bad precedent.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
FYI
Totally off topic... I signed up for a free two week trial to the SacBee’s “Capitol Alert”. I have no intention of signing up ($499 per year). BUt they email you all day long with the latest scoop. Pretty good stuff, actually. I suspect that the normal Sac Bee will now be void of all meaningful content and they’ll lose subscribers.
Anyway, since you (SmithL) seem to be a pretty consistent Chron reader, I thought I’d share this one from about a few hours ago:
“The Capitol bureau of the San Francisco Chronicle is dramatically shrinking because of cost-saving cuts. Two more veteran reporters, Greg Lucas and Mark Martin, announced they will be leaving the paper this week. The Chronicle has announced plans to lay off 100 editorial positions — nearly a quarter of its staff.”
Other tidbit: Dan Weintraub is writing a book on Schwarzenegger.
And... a couple new reports on the dismal budget situation:
http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FINBULL/2007_FB/June/Jun07.asp
Forgot you again. Darn it! (Ping)
What about that thing I just saw there about Snortzenegger and Davis kissin an makin up an lettin by bones be whatever...
Didja find the Shortsnicker and Davis lovefest yet?
This one? another good one.
http://www.sacbee.com/770/story/230562.html
Schwarzenegger, Davis put past behind
By Kevin Yamamura - Capitol Alert
Published 12:53 pm PDT Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appeared to be the best of political friends, nearly four years after the recall that ousted Davis from office.
The former Democratic governor introduced Schwarzenegger Tuesday at the “Ceasefire!” conference in Los Angeles to promote bipartisanship, and he couldn’t stop saying nice things about the current governor, which was the point of event. Never mind the fact that Schwarzenegger helped remove Davis from office in 2003, from the one job that Davis said he had worked toward his entire life.
Davis called Schwarzenegger “my successor and my friend,” though he didn’t mention how the circumstances that led to that situation.
“I want to thank and salute Gov. Schwarzenegger for bucking his own party and embracing the need for stem-cell research and the need for reduction in carbon emissions,” Davis said.
Davis finished by clenching both fists and imploring the crowd to “give it up for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger!”
In his keynote address, Schwarzenegger discussed his “post-partisanship” efforts, calling on Washington to do what California already has done in terms of political cooperation. He said Congress has shown how divided it is by not finding a compromise on a bill that would overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
I'm sorta sorry... I meant "by gones" but my finger slipped on my beegees!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=17753
Governor’s post-partisanship pitch snags Davis, too
Former Gov. Gray Davis was looking tanned, rested and ready for some politics — talking up the virtues of bipartisanship as he prepared to introduce Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today at the inaugural conference of the USC Annenberg School Center on Communication Leadership in Los Angeles.
“I’m into it,” said Davis of the new push for reaching across the political divide for an action, action, action political agenda. “I was always into working across party lines.’’
(snip)
Davis doesn’t appear to have any hard feelings. “I think Arnold is doing a great job ... and bipartisanship has been the key to his success,’’ Davis said. “He was onto this before he came up for a name for it.’’
Davis marveled that Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has taken up some issues that were the Democratic governor’s priorities as well: global warming and enviroment, improving education and aiming to get more federal funding to help pay California’s costs for immigration related issues.
In these guy's case, I think that should be changed to bisexual if not metrosexual!!!
I dunno about Sacramento, but in Sanctuary Francisco, it’s “bi-bones”
I’m not sure what ya call it—other than liberalism!
Neither would win a manly-man contest!
We had a guy on our county board of stuporvisors named Center and we told Moonbeam he needed to git up here an paddle Center!!!
Given who Arnie chose as his staff, I think it fits Sacramento, too.
(hope ya don’t mind me kinda hijacking your thread—it looked lonely) :-)
Oh reeeeeeeeeeeally? Is that how they "make their bones," down there? They're just such silly savages, ya know...
Yeah, but the Trojan Horses in the CA GOP have made dumbed down electorate believe that if you paddle enough on the left that sooner or later you will make a full circle and then start making those “incremental” “tiny steps” toward conservatism. Does not compute! LOL.
Well, I don’t mean to try to sound too much like Rush, but with all the “chickification” of not only the news, but everything political ever since the Finestein/Boxer “Year Of The Woman” stuff evertime they run... wull hay!!!
Have you freeped Tom McClintock’s poll for preferred Presidential Candidate?
http://www.carepublic.com/index.html
>>“chickification”
ROFL! I’ve never heard that one. Classic!
I’d heard pussification—also appropriate.
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