Opinion: Election Edition: Get Out the Dredge, Marge, It’s Sludge Season
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| When sludge collides: This is what democracy looks like |
Last-minute dispatches from a primary-campaign race Times reporters say nobody seems to be watching (Click here to get the Times editorial pages’ printable picks for tomorrow):
Mark Z. Barabak posed the big question facing tuned-out, turned-off voters: ‘Do I bother?’ Despite a nail-biter between Democrats Phil Angelides and Steve Westly for the governor spot, ‘the state is in a sour mood.’ ...
Michael Finnegan popped the big question facing the Democratic gubernatorial candidate: ‘Would a liberal or a moderate stand the best chance in the fall?’ ...
Eric Bailey said the top-cop race is bringing out the tough in Jerry Brown and Rocky Delgadillo: ‘The Democratic attorney general wannabes are performing like so many political peers hefting a full set of X and Y chromosomes, strutting their tough-guy stuff on the campaign trail.’ ...
Robert Salladay and Seema Metha covered ‘Democrat-on-Democrat clashes’ over a Westly ad that dredged up Tahoe sludge-dumping allegations ...
Columnist George Skelton dredged up DiFi recall-race regrets (‘If Feinstein had run for governor three years ago in the Gray Davis recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger would not have dared. That’s my guess.’) ...
Columnist Steve Lopez surveyed the sludgy scene in a column about the ‘clean money initiative’ campaign (‘California’s Democratic primary for governor ... is an affair so sleazy and vicious it would inspire revolt, except that no one is paying attention.’) Last week Lopez deliciously baited recall loser Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, now shedding pounds in his quest to become the Democratic candidate for insurance commissioner.