Meg Whitman continues to rewrite how to win votes and influence Jerry Brown by staging a presser in Jerry Brown's Oakland and then refusing to answer the predictably snarky and gossipy questions by the San Francisco media, such as, "How do you feel about . . .?" The strangeness of California politics is that a billionaire is running for a job that guarantees frustration and inadequacy -- and she describes herself as the "Un-Schwarzenegger." The Sacramento legislature makes the Bolsheviks in Petersburg 1918 look decorous and rational. Meg Whitman, now tossing aside the game Steve Poizner, takes on the deeply ironic and unconvincing Jerry "Pull-Up" Brown. The GOP has the edge in the argument, as Brown represents the antique Democratic Party of 1980, and Meg Whitman may very well blunder into the job. What is worth watching from now on is how she treats the media. This may set a trend. Who is less popular -- the media or the pols or the Bolshies or . . . ?
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See here, my good man, my governator's name is spelled 'Schwarzenegger', or at least I think it is, not that it matters because no one seems capable of pronouncing it. No matter how it is spelled, the local media can only pronounce it as 'shorts'n'egger'. Arnold eventually took pity and told them to pronounce it 'Awrnoldt', which didn't help a great deal. The media are definitely ready for a name like Whitman.