A "NO" VOTE IS CALLED FOR ON ACA 8
The League of Cities and the pro-eminent domain redevelopment industry have been lobbying very hard for the passage of Democrat Assemblyman Hector De LaTorre’s proposed constitutional amendment (ACA 8) that would put a faux (fake) eminent domain reform measure on the ballot. Their bill would NOT COME CLOSE to offering ALL private property owners the protections that they deserve against governments coming in and TAKING their property for economic gain (we’re not 
talking about a ‘taking’ to widen a highway, but the idea that some city planner sees a different use for the land with more economic benefit to the city, and just taking it…). ACA 8 will NEVER be amended to pass muster — because there are two diametrically opposed interests here. Property rights advocates want and demand legislation to END the proactive of governments being able to forcibly take someone’s private property from them (except in cases of true public need, such as the highway expansion example), and frankly this puts the lucrative redevelopment industry out of business. Anyways, as a constitutional amendment, ACA 8 would ultimately take a two-third vote of both houses. So far, in committee, every Republican has voted NO on this bill. This morning, the bill goes before the powerful Appropriations Committee. It is critical that once again, if this bill moves forward, it does so on a party-line vote, with all Republicans voting no.
There is more on this in my full commentary (link below…)
SUSAN KENNEDY – GO WORK FOR HILLARY
A couple of days ago, a rumor was swirling around that Governor Schwarzenegger’s Chief of Staff, Susan Kennedy, was going to be exiting "stage left" to go take a senior position with the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. It turns out that this rumor was not true — and was put to 
bed with an official statement from Aaron McLear, the Governor’s Press Secretary. I am sure that McLear, a Republican and former political staffer for the Republican National Committee, must have enjoyed explaining THIS distinction… Apparently the rumor came about because Kennedy was with a group of people and pronounced that the only two people in politics she WOULD work for are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hillary Clinton. Frankly, when I heard this, it made my blood boil all over again.
The Republican Party worked hard to elect and re-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger. Our Republican Governor having a Chief of Staff who isn’t repulsed by what Hillary Clinton stands for is problematic, let alone the opposite — admiration for her. We’ve picked up a lot of new readers lately who weren’t around when I spent quite a bit of time being critical of the Governor’s hire of Ms. Kennedy (the Gov. called me before he made the announcement, and I made the case that there are millions of Republicans in California, and that he should confine his search for a new Chief of Staff to one of them — ahh, to no avail.) Kennedy’s qualifications were so far from what we needed that it boggled the mind that she would be in consideration…
There is more on this in my full commentary (link below…)
**There is more – click the link**
August 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Susan Kennedy is a Hillary supporter? I would have never guessed that.