Strickland Chooses Tabling at Borders Over Educator Meeting?

Interesting piece over at the Ventura County Star blog that accuses Sen. Tony Strickland of choosing tabling at Borders in Goleta over a meeting with educators in Ventura. Democratic activists had sent out an email about Strickland's tabling that morning as if it was October and the 19th Senate District was at stake. It left me wondering if we will ever get a break from that contentious campaign.

A post a few days prior shows Pedro Nava and his wife Susan Jordan promoting her recently announced campaign for the State Assembly. Jordan, who is director of the California Coastal Protection Network, is already campaigning hard while Nava is talking up a run for Attorney General. It's two years from now but I guess you have to start somewhere -- especially if you might run against someone more well known. I'm guessing there will be a battle royale between Jordan and someone like First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal who has been quietly raising and saving money for several years.

Welcome to the permanent campaign.

Mock Tombstone Protest on 154

This in from KSBY-TV -- here's the video of the report.(Unfortunately it requires Win-Doze or Flip4Mac)

Up until around 3:30 p.m. Monday, a protest sign was sitting on Highway 154 just east of of the 246.

We can tell you before it was removed, it had been knocked over.

You can tell because the flowers that were part of the demonstration have been pushed aside.

At some point this weekend, a mock tombstone went up at the side of the 154.

It reads, "rest in peace, community voice."

It comes in opposition to the passage of an assembly resolution to rename the 32-mile road as "Chumash Highway."

Community activists have been complaining to Assemblyman Pedro Nava's office about his failure to inform his district the renaming.

But his office says the resolution was written by a Bay Area lawmaker.

And it did go through public comment in Sacramento.

I like Pedro but I have to wonder whether he and even State Senator McClintock dropped the ball on this one -- the "Bay Area lawmaker" likely informed Nava and McClintock of the resolution as a courtesy, no? Ignorance on their constituents' part is no excuse for a resolution going through public comment without a word from our representatives.