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State Moves Forward on Implementing Landmark Global Warming Law Market Advisory Committee Members Chosen, Early Action Workshop Scheduled SACRAMENTO – Today, Linda Adams, Secretary for Environmental Protection, announced a 14-member Market Advisory Committee to support the implementation of the state’s first-in-the-nation comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction program. The Committee was formed according to the Governor’s Executive Order S-20-06. The Committee will make recommendations by June 30, 2007, to the state Air Resources Board on the design of a market-based compliance program. “California is showing tremendous leadership on climate change. In my talks with national and international climate leaders, the progress we’re...

<p>Bob White, who was Republican Pete Wilson's chief of staff as governor, mayor and Assembly member, is now compiling an impressive stable of Democrats in his California Strategies public affairs and strategic consulting firm.</p> <p>Ever-quotable Democratic sage Garry South, a senior advisor to the gubernatorial campaign of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the architect of Gray Davis' gubernatorial victory in 1998, is going to work as a principal for White's firm.</p>

Richard Gephardt, the former congressional leader and two-time presidential candidate, recently dropped by California's Capitol to chat with a fellow Democrat, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata. The subject was not politics but private toll roads, according to people familiar with the meeting. Gephardt works for Goldman Sachs, the investment bank that is making millions advising Chicago and Indiana on how to sell toll roads to private companies. That idea, largely resisted in California, is now back on center stage here as part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $222-billion proposal to revamp roads, levees and schools across the state. His plan...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is benefiting from millions of dollars raised by a network of tax-exempt groups without revealing that the money comes from major corporations with business before his office. The groups are run by Schwarzenegger's closest political allies, who also represent some of California's biggest interest groups. Unlike the governor's many campaign funds, the nonprofits are not required to disclose their contributors and can accept unlimited amounts. One group controlled by a powerful corporate consultant pays the $6,000-a-month rent on a Sacramento hotel suite used by the governor, who is a multimillionaire. Others have funded media events...

SACRAMENTO - California's capital is packed with more than 1,000 lobbyists, but when people want to make something happen in Sacramento, they often turn instead to Bob White, a genial Republican maestro who helped elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. White has an advantage lobbyists don't. While registered influence peddlers must reveal whom they work for, White calls himself a strategist who doesn't directly push for changes in state policy. That legal distinction allows White to conceal who his corporate clients are, even though he and members of his consulting firm, California Strategies, go to bat for them by exploiting a loophole...

SACRAMENTO - Two top campaign consultants who helped Arnold Schwarzenegger become governor by casting him as a political reformer are taking new steps to profit from their ties to the administration. One year after the Republican governor sought to create a firewall between his administration and his political team, Schwarzenegger advisers George Gorton and Bob White have launched new Sacramento lobbying operations designed to influence state policy. The moves have critics calling on Schwarzenegger, who vowed to set a high ethical standard in Sacramento, to distance himself from anyone who offers him private political advice and then tries to sway...

x - close Recent Stories By Daniel Weintraub Arnold Schwarzenegger has demonstrated a flair for the political game. It's almost as if he'd been playing it all his life. Sacramento Bee/John Decker Daniel Weintraub: Here's the real uniter, not divider Gov. Schwarzenegger's first six months: A report card By Daniel Weintraub -- Bee ColumnistPublished 2:15 am PDT Sunday, May 16, 2004Two days after last year's recall election, having just vanquished Gray Davis by pledging to clean house in Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the capital city for the first time as governor-elect. The man who had campaigned as the ultimate...

<p>He was former Gov. Pete Wilson's closest aide for 28 years and helped steady Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign after it got off to a faltering start.</p> <p>Bob White, 61, who served as the campaign's chief of staff, is now playing a vital role in shaping Schwarzenegger's administration. If White's name doesn't register with the public, it's by design.</p>

E-mail Author Author ArchiveSend to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version October 01, 2003, 9:36 a.m. Quitting in a HuffThe final dynamics. By Arnold Steinberg LOS ANGELES — Arianna Huffington has quit the California recall race. Instead of voiting Arianna, she urges three "No" votes and one "Yes" from her supporters next Tuesday. "No" on: the recall, Schwarzenegger, and Ward Connerly's Proposition 54. "Yes "on Arianna's future initiative for taxpayer-funded campaigns. Huffington's withdrawal makes the race more partisan, and could wind up helping Davis. But defeating the recall will be tough. With each passing day, more pro-recall...