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  • CA: How Wannabe Govs Stand on State Constitution Do-Over

    05/21/2009 2:50:19 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 691+ views
    CalBuzz ^ | 5/21 | Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine
    Meg Whitman embraced the call for a constitutional convention by an influential business group Wednesday, while Republican gubernatorial rival Steve Poizner scoffed at the idea as “one more excuse” for Sacramento politicians. ... One day after California voters (well, about a quarter of them who bothered to participate) delivered a deafening roar of disapproval to Capitol electeds by overwhelmingly rejecting a propositional package of alleged budget reforms, the political atmosphere crackled with the lexicon of political change, as vows to “overhaul” and “restructure” a “failed system” and a “broken government” echoed throughout the state. In Sacramento, the corporate good government...
  • Bay Area business group inducts HP's Dunn into Hall of Fame (Oh, the irony of it all)

    09/20/2006 11:37:58 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 279+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 9/20/06 | Paul Elias - ap
    SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard Co.'s beleaguered chairwoman Patricia Dunn was in decidedly friendly territory Wednesday night as she made her first public appearance since landing at the center of a corporate investigation gone awry. Dunn was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Bay Area Council, a politically influential business group. "All I will say about the maelstrom is that I look forward eagerly, in the near future, to setting the record straight and going back to leading my life as discreetly as possible," Dunn said during her acceptance speech. "And in the meantime, it wouldn't hurt if the Pope...