California: Gavin Newsom

Calbuzz has a great post up about the folly of treating all polls as equals. The Calbuzzers were incited by a misleading poll suggesting a tightening of the Dem gov's race between Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. Among other...

Could Jackie beat the old pseudo-idealist or the young reckless womanizer? Maybe. Last month, I opined that Antonio Villaraigosa's exit from the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial price created an opening for another big-name Dem, given Jerry Brown's and Gavin Newsom's...

On Monday, I called Jerry Brown's and Gavin Newsom's campaign staffs to ask how the gubernatorial candidates felt about the possibility of using the proposed state constitutional convention to eliminate the rule that taxes can only be raised on...

As if there wasn't enough happening today...

? Jonathan Singer has a good interview with Gavin Newsom.  In general, Newsom is a very confident, positive guy, but he lets his slip show here:

But the caveat is that unless we have the structural changes, I don't care who your personality is, it's going to be very difficult to navigate out of this. So that's the big difference between Washington, DC and Sacramento. We're going to have to, as well, at the same time address the structural questions, not just promote a different personality as Governor.

Not personality but process, as we said here back in February.