Posted on 06/29/2012 8:34:34 AM PDT by leftofright
n the current recession, the ranks of the unemployed in California have swelled by nearly 1.2 million.
Still, one industry seems to be thriving in America’s nation-state: the California “reform industry.”
The key organizations in the Golden State’s world of reform are California Forward and Think Long, each with high-profile board members (including Hoover’s George Shultz and Condoleezza Rice, former California Gov. Gray Davis and ex-Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg, as well as leaders from business and labor organizations), a cadre of political and policy consultants, and enthusiastic funders.
I’m unaffiliated with either group. My perspective on state government was honed over the past two decades as a campaign consultant for Pete Wilson’s and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful gubernatorial runs; as Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff to Wilson; as a Schwarzenegger appointee to California’s Little Hoover Commission; and as a political strategist on more than 50 state and local ballot initiative efforts (including Proposition 14, which abolished partisan primary elections and replaced them with a “top-two” system that made its maiden voyage this June).
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Pognosis?
San Diego, LA and the freaking Bay Area make me want to throw up
Ben Jr. used to collect Pogs.
“We have met the enemy, and he is us”.
Or maybe that’s a “Pogonosis”.
Tells me all I need to know. He's a RINO scum-bucket.
I have looked at some of these group’s material and they seem to follow a lot of the globalist agenda (agenda 21 etc.) Looked like a stealth attempt to sound more conservative, but appeared to be pretty progressive underneath.
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