The Confessions of a Women’s Conference Escort — Part 2

A former Bank of America that opened in 1906, L’Opera, the 101 Pine Ave. Long Beach restaurant where Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has dinner the night before First Lady Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference, is swamped by conference attendees.

Nevertheless, the hostess accommodates both O’Connor and her team of marshals.

Dinner conversation is varied.    Read more »

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“What Were the Voters Thinking?”

This is the name of a poll released November 3 by Cheryl Boudreau and Scott MacKenie through the University of California at Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs. It examines how much influence policy considerations and the position of a voter’s political party influence decision-making.

As to the title, the political scientists pose an excellent question.    Read more »

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One Presumes They Wouldn’t Be Anything Else…

(An e-mail from Tom Angell, media director for the “Yes on Proposition 19” campaign, regarding voter turnout. Proposition 19 would allow localities to legalize and tax marijuana:)

“I’m told by organizers on the ground that youth turnout is so high that the polling location at San Diego State University has completely run out of provisional ballots.     Read more »

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Not Exactly The Most Sought After of Fortune Cookies…

“If you tempt a squirrel with a nut, be prepared to be bitten.”

(A rung or two up the ladder from “You will lead a short — but happy — life.”)    Read more »

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The Campaign Mailbag Runneth Over – Not for Long, Though

During the last two days of the last week of October another 37 pieces of campaign mail arrive.

Being residents of the 3rd Assembly District, which Democrats hope to wrest from Republicans, there is another flurry of missives condemning or praising Democrat Richard Pan, a pediatrician, and Andy Pugno, who claims to be a “proven and trusted local leader.”    Read more »

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