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Hey, Big Daddy I hear rumors all the time about legislative staffers having affairs with lawmakers, especially the women with their male bosses. Big Daddy, you know women. What makes legislators so enticing? –Baffled in Sacramento.

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Hey Big Daddy, You and Ronald Reagan cut the deal on UC tuition nearly 40 years ago, and now look where we are – I’m referring to the Regents’ meeting at UCLA. Are you ashamed?

–Saddened in San

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Hey Big Daddy, Did you read about Jerry Brown recording all those reporters’ conversations? Seems pretty Nixonian to me. Could this keep him out of the governor’s office?

Hoping in Hermes

Hey Hoping, This is perhaps my

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Dear Big Daddy, You were pretty harsh on Tom Ammiano the other week. Any chance you’ll change your tune now that our Guv has once again made our state a national laughingstock with his coded veto message?

–F-bomber

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Dear Big Daddy, So Danny Gilmore spends years running for the Assembly—then decides in a few months he doesn’t like it and wants to quit? What gives?

–Confounded in Kingsburg

Dear Muddled Meatball, As Barbie might put

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Dear Big Daddy, I never bought this idea the media was trying to sell us that the Jerry Brown-for-governor train was unstoppable. Do you think his old liberal radio show rants are going to keep him from getting elected?

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Dear Big Daddy, First Dems talk about the “end of the era of civility” when Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at Obama. Then Tom Amianno does the same to the Governor—then adds a “kiss my gay ass”—and the Dems

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Dear Big Daddy,

I’m shocked, shocked that the governor would reject hundreds of bills in order to get his water plan through the Legislature. How about you?

–Aghast in Artesia

Hey Aghast,

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Hey Big Daddy,

I just finished reading the entire report from the Commission on the 21st Century Economy, and I’m pumped. Could we really be on the verge of eliminating the corporations tax, flattening the income tax

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Hey Big Daddy, So, now I’m reading that after all of the bills the legislature passed, the governor is going to reject them all unless he gets his way on water? Is the governor really going to veto all

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