Dear Big Daddy,
I’m a Dem who voted for both Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now Newsom’s dating a restaurant hostess half his age, acting drunk in public and getting busted for sleeping with his campaign manager’s wife. Arnold keeps making dumb comments on tape and getting them posted on the Web. I’m so annoyed
Advice from the grave, from the dearly departed Jesse Unruh.
Big Daddy takes on Sally Leiber’s spanking bill.
Dear Big Daddy, As a longtime labor lobbyist, I was dismayed when some of the biggest headlines of the early session went to Sally Lieber's spanking bill. We're finally tackling health care and prisons, but here come my fellow Democrats with more culture-war fodder. This follows the fine traditional of dog tethering and taxing yard
Dear Big Daddy,
As a Republican, I was very worried when I heard that Governor Schwarzenegger had broken his leg. It’s not like he does great things for us, but his veto pen keeps a lot of bad things from happening. And then there’s how he broke his leg. Breaking his femur by falling
The world is full of pitfalls, both political and personal. Capitol Weekly has summoned the spectre of Jesse “Big Daddy” Unruh to answer your questions.
Dear Big Daddy,
I’m a young Republican staffer. I’ve started my second legislative session, but I can barely tell it from the first. A lot of the faces are different, but everything else seems the same. Gay marriage? Didn’t we decide that? Universal health care? Oh look, here comes all the same bad liberal ideas on prisons! It’s like that movie Groundhog Day, except I’m better looking than Bill Murray.
–Deja Veto
Dear Big Daddy,
I’m a Capitol staffer in my 20s, and I want to know one thing: Just who are you? The older workers in our office know about Jesse Unruh, but the younger ones don’t have a clue. So what makes Big Daddy the big expert, and why is he called ‘Big Daddy,’ anyway?”
–Young and Ignorant
Dear Big Daddy,
What’s the deal with all these dissatisfied members in the Republican caucuses? If you were in charge, how would you punish some of these members who step out of line?
–Wondering in Watsonville
Dear Loyal Readers,Well, the Legislature is back in session, even if it was only for one day this week, and it looks like people are beating the holiday mail rush by getting their questions in early. Good move–I’d hate to have someone’s cry for help get log-jammed behind a few dozen fruitcakes looking for a