Here are the winners and losers from today's Boren/McEwen political podcast:
Winners: Bill chooses Fresno mayoral candidate Ashley Swearengin for being the fund-raising leader against opponent Henry T. Perea. My pick is Steve Samuelian, former Assembly member and now lobbyist for the Fresno County Council of Governments, for getting a 20% raise for his COG lobbying. Fresno government agencies must have plenty of money to be handing out a 20% raise to their lobbyists.
Losers: Bill picked Assemblyman Mike Villines, Mayor Alan Autry and others who complain about activist federal judges putting fish before people. The law is clear. If they don't like the rulings, change the law. My losers this week are Assembly Speaker Karen Bass; Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill and Villines for partying at the Chukchansi casino hotel expansion event instead of staying in Sacramento and solving the budget problem. Do your job, then you can party.
What part of stupid does His Holiness Pope AndyI, and all others at City Hall not get? There is not a bucket of cash to give away. Right daft to give a raise to someone in these hard economic times.
Ms. Swearengin will not get my cash or my vote, me thinks she is wasting a lot of cash to sell a message that is so much smoke and mirrors.
As to Sacramento crowd hanging out at the casino, maybe they feel like the poor, some one just might hit the jackpot on the fruit machine. Sorry, still not enough dash to pay all of the bills. Talk about 'Eat, Drink and be Merry'.
I guess fresno admires qualities in a lobbyist that it abhors in a politicians. Steve Samuelian is a creep through and through.
Jim