Local Boy Does Good

As Smelt mentioned below, and as linked to in today's Roundup, an apparently calm and orderly transition of power in the Senate from Don "Indictment Coming Soon" Perata to Darrell "Hometown Super Star" Steinberg will take place later this summer. Apparently, it took just a cordial lunch with Angeleno Alex "Still Hot" Padilla to get him to back off his potential challenge. Thus, the Senate will stay NorCal and the Assembly will probably remain SoCal.

I love Darrell. He won the "Minnie" multiple times, back when we still had a political journal that gave out awards. He was routinely sited as a reason to extend term limits. He's known for his integrity, intelligence, dedication to sound policy, and all around nice-guy-itude that can be sorely lacking 'round the dome these days. Talk about changing it up.

Like Smelt says - who will win in the green room, though? Will the Wesson Legacy continue through Nunez to Karen Bass? Or will Hector prevail?

Tune in next week to "As the Leadership Turns . . . . "

New Senate Leader

Now that The Don is going to be termed out (awww), Sacramento's own Darrell Steinberg will lead the Senate.

It seems like quite an improvement to me, even if he was the only candidate for the job.

And who's going to replace Nunez??

Unrelated to the election

The County remains unable to build a 7-mile bike path from Davis to Woodland.

But don't worry, so far it's only cost $2 million.

I'll tell you what, you give me $2 million and I'll drive the bikers from Davis to Woodland.

The Day After

So here's how it went down, in case you haven't seen the election results yet.

Clinton and McCain won California. Absolutely nothing is decided on the Democratic side. Proposition 91 got 41% of the vote despite the fact that it's authors abandoned it and it had no campaign. And I give up trying to understand California.

In case you're wondering how the actual 'delegates' are breaking down, check here.

But what does it all mean?

Chris Matthews just made an interesting point on the Reep races: McCain is winning states that Republicans don't usually win in the general. Huckabee is winning in states where Republicans always win in the general. So does that mean the Reeps could end up electing an unelectable candidate? Hmmm. Not that it would be a problem with me . . . .

Gov. Richardson Supports the Writers

At least, that's the only explanation I can come up with for his recent facial hair growth. Conan did it, so can you!

Maybe it's just his "I'm not longer running for President so this is my prize" beard. Who knows.

I can't help but think again how much it sucks to be him. He was a golden guy not so long ago. Once, we could've imagined this as his night. Not so, anymore. Poor guy. Sorry man.

Term Limits, Naw

Since it looks like 93 isn't going to pass (that's the one on term limits people), the local races to fill those seats left vacant are still on.

This means come Wednesday West Sac Mayor Christopher Cabaldon and County Supervisor Mariko Yamada will start campaigning for 'real'.

I dunno, though, I heard a rumor she wants to move to San Diego. Hmm..