Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

George Skelton at the LA Times comes down hard against the Republican electoral college rigging scheme, but sees a potential hidden benefit for Dems: "Whatever this is, it's brazen -- a strategy based on the assumption of a low voter turnout that leans Republican while the electoral college measure slips under the Democratic radar," Skelton writes. "But I can envision just the opposite. I can see this initiative drawing a lot of media attention that awakens Democratic voters."

On the California Progress Report, former Assemblymember Hannah Beth Jackson provides an update on the status of some of the more significant initiatives on tap for the 2008 election.

Just in time for Labor Day, CPR also hosts a piece by Sam Gold, an injured work, that provides a crash course on recent Capitol activity impacting workers compensation.

And while Labor Day isn't typically a day Big Labor stands shoulder-to-shoulder in solidarity with the Chamber of Commerce, an editorial in today's Orange County Register joins both in opposition to a forthcoming crackdown on undocumented workers that would destabilize industries important to California. Says the Register: "The construction industry, already shaky in the wake of the mortgage meltdown, is likely to be hit hard."

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Photo courtesy San Jose Mercury News.