Posted on 01/21/2011 8:15:18 AM PST by SmithL
California politics can be a cross between a wrestling smackdown, a demolition derby and the juiciest reality show -- so no wonder a crowd of academics, reporters and political junkies will try to sort it all out starting Friday at a much-anticipated conference to dissect the 2010 election.
But -- as the Calbuzz crew so bitingly put it this week -- there's plenty of drama in the two-day UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies confab.
For one, as we've reported, GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's team isn't showing up -- a first for a leading campaign team in the long history of this conferenece. Whitman, in her first interview since the election, told us Friday that she wants to move forward, didn't want to "rehash" the campaign -- and believes that's the right decision.
But Calbuzz's Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine this week also reported the absence of the man who ran former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign -- longtime Democratic strategist Garry South. He's not only been an IGS conference fixture, but he makes news as the famously quotable campaign operative best known for his take-no-prisoners approach to the game.
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just testing
IMO, Liberal California politicians (all RAT politicians in CA are flaming Liberals), e.g., Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Moonbeam, Newsome et al. are like the Keystone Cops only worse! They live in an alternate universe or a Liberal utopia in la la land. In my opinion, these politicians are a prime example to the world of patients running their Psych ward while off their meds.
When someone said they were spending 600 million or something like that a year on anchor babies alone; that tells me the politicians and whoever else are stealing money.
And our kids' and grandkids', etc. future...
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