August 22, 2007 Blog Roundup

by jsw [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• California Progress Report: Senate Republicans Held the
  California State Budget Hostage for 52
  Days and Appear to Have Gotten Precious Little Ransom in Return
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/senate_republic_2.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/senate_republic_2.html
• California Progress Report: Concern from Advocates for
  Disabled, Seniors, and Others About More
  Cuts As California State Budget Bill Heads To Governor Schwarzenegger
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/concern_from_ad.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/concern_from_ad.html
• Sierra Club California Blog Spot: California Budget Finally
  Approved – Environmental Law (Mostly) Dodges a Bullet
  
  href="http://sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2007/08/california-budget-finally-approved.html">http://sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2007/08/california-budget-finally-approved.html
• The California Majority Report // Torres Bashes GOP on
  Budget
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2199">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2199
• California Progress Report: Perata Proposes Establishing
  California Budget Reform Panel
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_proposes.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_proposes.html
• California Progress Report: Perata Unchained on the
  California Budget
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_unchaine.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_unchaine.html

Electoral College

• D-Day: A Competing Initiative With The Right-Wing Electoral
  College Power Grab
  
  href="http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/competing-initiative-with-right-wing.html">http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/competing-initiative-with-right-wing.html
• Daily Kos: California Democrats file for national popular
  vote
  
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/21/204710/075
• The California Majority Report // NY Times Editorial Calls
  on Schwarzenegger to Speak Out Against Electoral College Power Grab
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2200">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2200
• Joe Scott: Abolish the Electoral College?
  
  href="http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/abolish_the_electoral_college/">http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/abolish_the_electoral_college/
• Wilshire & Washington: Ballot Bamboozle
  
  href="http://www.wilshireandwashington.com/2007/08/ballot-bamboozl.html">http://www.wilshireandwashington.com/2007/08/ballot-bamboozl.html
• MyDD :: NY Times: California Republicans Up To Their Dirty
  Tricks
  
  http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/22/14129/0444

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry...

• The Progressive Connection:: Relief Turns To Indigestion
  
  href="http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=124">http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=124
• Firedoglake - Shifting With The Winds?
  
  href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/22/shifting-with-the-winds/">http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/22/shifting-with-the-winds/
• CA 11: One step forward, ten steps back
  
  href="http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/08/one-step-forward-ten-steps-back.html">http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/08/one-step-forward-ten-steps-back.html
• k / o: Congressman McNerney and Iraq
  
  href="http://kidoaklandblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/congressman-mcnerney-and-iraq.html">http://kidoaklandblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/congressman-mcnerney-and-iraq.html
• Firedoglake - The Education of Jerry McNerny
  
  href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/22/babaloomcnerny-draft/">http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/22/babaloomcnerny-draft/
• The Progressive Connection:: Tug Of War
  
  href="http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=125">http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=125

Health Care

• Working Californians: Polling Shows Increasing Public
  Dissatisfaction With Health Care
  
  href="http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/08/22/polling_shows_increasing_public_dissatisfaction_with_health_care">http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/08/22/polling_shows_increasing_public_dissatisfaction_with_health_care
• California Progress Report: Comments and Fact Checks on
  Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Veto Threat
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/comments_and_fa.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/comments_and_fa.html
• California Progress Report: Dramatic New Field Poll Shows
  Increasing Dissatisfaction with Current
  Health Insurance System Behind Increasing California Support for Single
  Payor Reform
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/dramatic_new_fi.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/dramatic_new_fi.html

Local Motion

• The N-Judah Chronicles: A Record Scratch WTF Moment In
  Today's Chronicle With Mayor Newsom
  
  href="http://www.njudahchronicles.com/2007/08/a_record_scratch_wtf_moment_in.html">http://www.njudahchronicles.com/2007/08/a_record_scratch_wtf_moment_in.html href="http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/food_for_thought_ojais_locally.shtml">
• The People's Vanguard of Davis: Commentary: Lack of Solano
  Candidates in Assembly Race a bit Vexing
  
  href="http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/commentary-lack-of-solano-candidates-in.html">http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/commentary-lack-of-solano-candidates-in.html
• The Ojai Post: Food For Thought Ojai's Locally Grown
  Concert Goes Green!
  
  href="http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/food_for_thought_ojais_locally.shtml">http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/food_for_thought_ojais_locally.shtml

All the Rest

• The Mad Professah Lectures: Summer 2007 Road Trip: Day 1
  
  href="http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-1.html">http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-1.html
• The Mad Professah Lectures: Summer 2007 Road Trip: Day 2
  
  href="http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-2.html">http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-2.html
• The Mad Professah Lectures: Summer 2007 Road Trip: Day 3
  
  href="http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-3.html">http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-2007-road-trip-day-3.html
• California Progress Report: Larger Questions for the
  University of California in the Wake of Dynes' Departure
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/schrag_larger_q.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/schrag_larger_q.html
• The California Majority Report // McClintock/Denham 2010?
  Bring it on!
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2198">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2198
• The Mad Professah Lectures: CA-37: Laura Richardson Elected
  To Congress
  
  href="http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/ca-37-laura-richardson-elected-to.html">http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/ca-37-laura-richardson-elected-to.html
• The Bayne of Blog's: Candidate and campaign worker training
  coming to Sacramento
  
  href="http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/candidate-and-campaign-worker-trainging.html">http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/candidate-and-campaign-worker-trainging.html
• I'm Not One to Blog, But...: Drink to Me Only with Thine
  Beer and Wines
  
  href="http://imnotonetoblogbut.blogspot.com/2007/08/drink-to-me-only-with-thine-beer-and.html">http://imnotonetoblogbut.blogspot.com/2007/08/drink-to-me-only-with-thine-beer-and.html
• snicholsblog: The Evils of Having an "Agenda"
  
  href="http://snicholsblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/evils-of-having-agenda.html">http://snicholsblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/evils-of-having-agenda.html