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I was just talking with coworkers yesterday and hypothesizing that Newsom will have to postpone his run for the Governorship now. Had Prop 8 failed, he might have had a small chance. But this is bad for him. The only thing most people in California know about him is that he’s the gay marriage mayor. I’m guessing he’ll be appointed to the next Governor’s team (if it’s a Democrat). If not, then who knows. But I think his dreams of a state-wide elected position are probably on hold for now.

Fog City Journal seems to agree.

This blog post does a great job of telling it like it is:

So Controller John Chiang says the state has enough money to pay its bills until September. Capitol insiders are saying that a June revenue spike has given the state some breathing room. Yet here’s what the governor had to say with a straight face today when he announced his intention to temporarily cut the pay for 200,000 state workers to federal minimum wage:

QUESTION: Do you think that your action today will force the legislature, the added pressure, to come up with a budget solution faster?

GOVERNOR: This is not meant to do that. … the fact is that we are running out of cash and this is an action that we have to take.

In Jim Bouton’s wonderful baseball book, “Ball Four,” here’s how players liked to respond to preposterous assertions: Yeah, surrrre.

QUESTION: Do you think that your action today will force the legislature, the added pressure, to come up with a budget solution faster?

GOVERNOR: This is not meant to do that.

ALL OF CALIFORNIA AS ONE: Yeah, surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

(Keep reading for more of the author’s commentary)

Dude, Gavin Newsom for Governor!

Yeah, who didn’t see this one coming?