Sunday morning coming down in Sacramento
Jesse knew a lot about the cleanest dirty shirt.
Money is the mother’s milk of politics.
Jesse Unruh, most powerful assembly speaker in California history
Money, the kind that pays for increasingly expensive California legislative campaigns, is what gives Sacramento lobbyists power when ideas and ideals run out of steam. Voters remember the big and simple issues – say, whether to raise taxes or give hybrid cars a free pass in diamond lanes – but it’s lobbyists who meticulously track every vote on the small and complex bills that comprise the daily toil at the state capitol.… More
