Armed Liberal

SkyBox Davis makes a brilliant hire as he brings on ex-Senator Steve Peace as his director of finance.

Peace is famous for two things: he’s fabulously temperamental, and as far as I know, not widely loved in the Legislature (I’ll go to Ann Salisbury for confirmation), but even better, he was the main water-carrier for the corporate energy interests that demolished the budget with their ill-planned (from the state, utility, and consumer’s point of view) deregulation of the energy markets.

If there’s a state political figure who ought to be at Tassajara Zen monastery, cutting wood and thinking about humility, it’s Peace.

Instead the Gov. is tossing him into what will be one of the bloodiest and highest-stakes political battles we’ve seen here in CA in this decade.

Thanks, Gray!!