California: Dan Weintraub

I'm not the only one disappointed and surprised by Dan Weintraub's coverage of Prop. 1A. Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine of CalBuzzer delivered this zinger: The political perspective of the props has far more to do with inside-the-cul-de-Sac tactics and...

Dan Weintraub's column today about what he thinks is the perversity of Republican/fiscal conservative opposition to 1A -- "Anti-tax activists miss the point of Prop. 1A" -- is infinitely better than George Skelton's version of this argument, with its tortured...

A generous sampling from around the state...

• Newt Gingrich, who for some reason the media finds still relevant, has discovered the Twitter thing that all "the kids" are using.  On it, he blatantly lied that there has been no oil spills off the coast of Santa Barbara since 1969, and was called on it by Media Matters and Keith Olbermann.  He didn't like that much, so he called upon his pals at the American Enterprise Institute to bail him out.  Needless to say, they lied too.

• This conversation between Greg Lucas of California's Capitol and Bill Lockyer is well worth reading.  His main point is that hijackings like Abel Maldonado throwing Constitutional amendments into the budget process are just going to embolden obstructionists in the Yacht Party in the future.

Dan Smith reports on sacbee.com that the four legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have struck a tentative budget pact. A vote is scheduled for Friday.

Jim Sanders, Jon Ortiz and Kevin Yamamura had the outline of the agreement in today's Bee.

Dan Walters, in his column today, reports on a corporate tax change that is a sweetener for Republicans. Dan Weintraub looks at the spending cap part of the proposal.