The Democrats are having trouble keeping a State Senate majority because a bunch of their Senators are facing criminal proceedings.
The Governor is running a budget using imaginary numbers and the Secretary of State is too depressed to come in to work.
You would be depressed too if you had to be the Secretary of State of California.
It’s just another year in Governor Moonbeam’s utopian paradise of California.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen, whose long absences from her office have prompted criticism from at least one candidate to replace her in November, revealed to the Los Angeles Times on Friday that she suffers from severe and “debilitating” depression. Bowen won support for her honesty, as well as empathy for her illness, but also prompted calls that she should step down for the remaining four months of her term if she cannot do her job.
Republican Pete Peterson, who has criticized Bowen’s inattention to her duties, told the Times that he is not sure whether Bowen should resign, but that he was certain she could not do her job properly from home.
“That’s an office where you have to be physically present,” Peterson told the Times. He has made the poor performance of the Democrat incumbent a key issue in his campaign against rival State Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima).
Bowen, who cannot run again due to term limits, insists that she can perform the job while working from home, and her staff seem to agree.
She can probably do it better from home. Or from Aruba. For that matter the same goes for Jerry Brown.
If only there was some way to convince the rest of the California Democratic establishment to start working from home, California might be able to turn things around.






















