According to today’s Santa Barbara News-Press, Republican State Senator Sam Blakeslee lead a press conference on the Central Coast yesterday where he said from the podium he believes that a lawsuit filed by the liberal League of California Cities and the more liberal California Redevelopment Association to set aside the recent reform of California’s scam-ridden redevelopment agencies is “a valiant and heroic effort”. Blakeslee added at the press conference, “a team of us state senators worked really hard to save redevelopment agencies” but “each and every one of those overtures…were rejected and rejected categorically”.