Brown or Whitman

Hey Owl, way too early for this post. Summers not even over. But I'll take Hairy Jerry--I always prefer the old stoner to the uptight CEO when given the choice.

Yeah, you're right. Way too soon. Maybe when something interesting happens in September.

@NightOwlnOrinda - Ya know at first I was a Meg fan, b/c I thought if she can run a company she should be able to run the budget and the city, but then I saw how old she was, and well, now I need to do a bit more research.

Although, Brown is ancient too. I mean he was governor after Reagan. Of the two Republicans running for Governor/Senator, I find Whitman the more attractive (I mean politically, not in terms of looks). But I worry about how what Whitman might do with environmental regulations and about education. She has softened her right-leaning rhetoric on the environment, but I am afraid she will cut social programs for the poor to try to get the budget back in line.

I find the one running for Senator (Carli Fiorenina?) much more scary--way too right for me. I also fear how they might play the immigration question. I fear that if the economy doesn't recover soon, we may start to catch the anti-immigrant feeling they got in Arizona right now. All of those issues worry me. (I mostly agree with Boxer's politics, though I find her manner of conducting herself kind of irritating and I think I'm not the only one--I'm not sure if saying that is sexist.)

Whoever wins the governorship is going to have problems though. Sacramento is such a mess I don't know if anyone can really straighten it out.