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Well, I was assuming the CPR hearings are most certainly pre-legislative as they are more far-reaching, supposedly, than the SNC... Dan Walters in SacBee.com was quite critical of CPR over the weekend, but I didn't post it due to criticism of the SN&R article as "nothing but a Schwarzenegger smear."

Plus, I don't agree with Walter's criticism as he tries to champion stuff that FDR championed, like more regional governments to dismiss county governments as obsolete, etc."

Thomas Jefferson stated: "States shall be further divided into Counties, each to govern what lies within it's bounds!" We already have a State Agency usurping local land-use control by people's elected county representatives through LAFCO, a "Regional" GovernMental Agency of the State as Counties already are!!!

Dan Walters in SacBee.com was quite critical of CPR over the weekend

Yep. Weintraub was also critical; he did a piece on the Education recommendations. Other papers had many less than enthusiastic comments.

Walters: Schwarzenegger's reforms fall far short

Weintraub: Education in state requires makeover - not manicure

Schrag Schwarzenegger's reform plan gets too much respect

Press-Enterprise: Fix-it report not a fix-all

For his top-to-bottom review of state government, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he wanted not just to think outside the box, but to "blow up the boxes."
I think the California Performance Review analysts took him too literally.
They blew up the boxes, let the pieces fall back to earth, gathered them up and stuck them in different boxes.
Thank heaven one commissioner - state Sen. Jim Brulte, R-Rancho Cucamonga - asked for assurances that the alleged cost savings aren't just taking the costs out of one box and putting them in another.