[dd74]

Eric - FYI - Laguna Beach is the liberal alcove of Orange County.

Tabster: Vegas is no different now than L.A. in the 60s-80s. Back then the entire coastal commission was in bed with the developers. That's why there are wall-to-wall ocean-front homes in Malibu, that renders the beach "off-limits" to anyone but the owners. Also, Zev Yaroslavsky, the famed career councilman-turned-LA County supervisor was humping developers so that every corner in West L.A. would be turned into strip malls. Where you are is no great epiphany when it comes to pud-pulling between politicians and developers. Hello from CA: been there, done that...

The debate tonight is going to be very interesting - we'll see what Arnold's made of. Most wise thinking people in CA. see him as a mediocre actor w/political aspirations and no experience - and believe me, if they weren't around to see that crap once before with Reagan, surely such history has been passed down to them by their elders, for better and worse. Nonetheless, I hope A.S. studied his questions beforehand, because he's going against two career politicians (McClintock and Bustamante), who might just hand him his ass.

By the way, very few are impressed with Arnold's cabinet. Californians are too poor to care about Warren Buffet and Schultz. Arnold has set up his staff with a Polyanna wet dream comprised of rich old farts who are less in tune with CA's real issues than the Sultan of Brunei (sp?).

Of course I speak of the intelligent Californians - few of which exist any longer. Republican and Democrat alike, they'll have little choice as once again, they'll be polarized toward the far left Bustamante or far right McClintock. That is if they don't buy into the bling-bling of Schwarzenneger.