The language and paragraph construction used by the article's author, Weintraub, is designed precisely to get under the skin of worried conservatives such as yourself. He characterizes her appointment as "eye-popping" even though Reiss has been a Swarzenegger friend for a quarter-century and worked on his campaign for governor. Weintraub discusses her appointment first, in a heated way. Then, in the rest of the article, he all but glosses over much more conservative appointments, describing them in cool, matter-of-fact, colorless language.
His article was bait for people of your generally anti-Arnold position, and you fell for it.
Your whole post was an excellent analysis. I clicked on the "View Replies" link under your post but there were none.
Yep and I fell for the appointment of Willie Brown, too.