Opinion: Come out and defend California from the L.A. Times!

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Come out to cheer, come out to heckle, come out to laugh and cry...just come out and see a murderers’ row of L.A. Times columnists and editorial writers bat around California’s political future. Not since Louis B. Mayer promised more stars than there are in heaven has the City of the Angels seen a cast this pan-galactic...

Zócalo at Caltech

Thursday, April 19, 7pm at the California Institute of Technology

Zócalo and the Los Angeles Times Editorial Pages
Present

Is California Ready for its Close-up?
Moderated by David Hiller, Publisher of the Los Angeles Times

Next year, California will play a starring role in the wide-open, upcoming presidential campaign. Thanks to Sacramento’s self-serving move (involving term limits for state pols), California will catapult its presidential primary from June to early February. Times op-ed columnists Ron Brownstein, Rosa Brooks and Jonah Goldberg join Times editorial writer Rob Greene to discuss how an early California primary is likely to alter the substance and dynamic of the race. Will it make it impossible for lesser-known candidates to succeed? Will they have to talk differently about Iraq, immigration or the environment when addressing voters here in the Golden State? Are we Californians ready for our close-up?

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