John Myers is the State Capitol Correspondent for KQED public broadcasting in northern California. Myers operates his own blog, Capitol Notes. Myers produces the Capitol Report for his radio station, and often has interesting items on his site (you can always check it via my Blog Roll above).
Today, Myers has a post concerning Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s calendar, which the Governor started making available to public scrutiny last year. Myers takes not that despite the making public of the calendar, there are a surprisingly high number of meetings that are marked ‘private’ with no details about them. Myers goes on to note:
Most of the other entries can be categorized as media events (85), news interviews (106), public relations/entertainment media (135), politics and political fundraisers (94), ceremonial duties (114), and staff meetings (135).
The post goes on to talk about more specifics, and is a fun read. If you go check it out, scroll down to his previous entry to read about how the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Business Roundtable have officially put their tail between their legs, and pledged to no longer actively support any efforts to free public employee union members from having their wages garnished for union political activities. Then again, can you blame these guys?