Parsky Watch #72
GERRY PARSKY FOR GOVERNOR?
We’re not making this up. You’ve probably heard it already,
and once you stop laughing uncontrollably, click this link http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12549872p-13405141c.html and read March 12 Sacramento Bee article that broke the story (registration
required), or read this excerpted version here:
PARSKY EXPLORES GUBERNATORIAL BID
Regents chair hints he'll run, but only if the governor doesn't.
By Amy Chance -- Bee Political Editor
Published 2:15 am PST Saturday, March 12, 2005
Gerry Parsky, chairman of the University of California Board of
Regents and President Bush's political point man in California,
is quietly exploring the possibility of running for governor next
year if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opts to bow out.
( Read more... )
Parsky Watch #71
A BAD POLITICAL COLD WE JUST CAN'T SHAKE
Testifying yesterday before the Assembly Committee on the Public Sector
AGAINST Schwarzenegger’s pension reform, Gerry Parsky answered
the question posed by PW 70 with a loud and disappointing “No!”
Parsky was appearing in his capacity as Chairman of the UC Board
of Regents, and once again displayed his peculiar talent for undermining
Republican policy and political initiatives. The hearing topic,
of course, is the Governors plan to stave off ultimate bankruptcy
for the state pension system by having new state employees pay into
defined-contribution, 401K-style retirement plans like us schleps
in the private sector.
( Read more... )
Parsky Watch #70
ARE WE FINALLY DONE WITH GERRY PARSKY?
That is the question pinging around our minds as we ponder the
events of the recent California Republican Party convention in Sacramento,
where there was an alarming outbreak of Parsky Disease in the form
of two of the malady’s most potent host organisms: Mario Rodriguez
and Dora Kingsley.
Mario Rodriguez’s rise to CRP Vice Chair was as inexplicable
as it was meteoric – and ended as inexplicably as it began.
For any reader who doesn’t know, the CRP has a peculiar tradition
when it comes to electing the state party Chairman. Candidates don’t
run directly for Chairman (generally speaking). Instead, they run
for Vice Chairman, and are more or less automatically voted in as
Chairman at the end of their two-year term.
( Read more... )
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