If you turn to page 15 of the Governor’s recommendations coming from his California Performance Review that he undertook after winning the recall election in 2003 with a mandate to “blow up the boxes,” you will see that one of the Commissions that the Governor had slated for elimination was the Integrated Waste Management Board.

These days, the California Performance Review and the Governor’s proposed revisions to state government that were part of its roll-out are just growing electronic dust, occasionally linked-to by an online columnist like myself.  Never mind the fact that had the Governor achieved the revisions he sought, as opposed to a wholesale abandonment of the whole project, our budget deficit issues would be significantly mitigated.

Well, we’ve certainly come a long was in just five short years.  There is nothing left of the Governor (1.0) who was swept into office after a recall of former Governor Gray Davis was successfully qualified after Davis outrageously hiked the state car tax.  In fact, rather infamously, the Governor has said that if the legislature were to place a car tax on his desk as part of a “solution” to the budget shortfall (which we have said about a hundred times is specifically due to over-spending, not under-taxing), he would sign it!  Good grief.

Anyways, I am not quite sure what to say about the Governor’s appointment, yesterday, of ultra-left wing ex-State Senator Carol Migden to the Integrated Waste Management Board, one of these non-essential, plum appointments that come with a huge six figure salary and very little work-load.  Migden, a Democrat who represented San Francisco for many years in the State Legislature (she was defeated for re-election last June) is so liberal that it is beyond me how the Governor could appoint her to anything at all.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.