Running with Scissors: Tony Strickland Emerges as Sacramento Shifts from Dysfunction to Madness
Written by VCDCC Admin on February 20th, 2009In the frantic, closing days of Tony Strickland’s bitter battle against Hannah-Beth Jackson for the 19th District state senate seat, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a big endorsement to the Republican candidate. “Tony’s strength as a leader is admirable,” the governator said, in one of the rare legislative endorsements he made last fall. “We need independent thinkers like Tony Strickland in Sacramento.” Indeed.
As California teetered on the brink of bankruptcy and the Capitol descended into Hieronymus Bosch nightmare scenes of full-blown, running-with-scissors madness, Santa Barbara’s rookie state senator emerged as a high-profile player who was, to be sure, both a leader and an independent thinker. Just not quite in the way Arnold would have wished.
By Jerry Roberts
In the frantic, closing days of Tony Strickland’s bitter battle against Hannah-Beth Jackson for the 19th District state senate seat, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a big endorsement to the Republican candidate. “Tony’s strength as a leader is admirable,” the governator said, in one of the rare legislative endorsements he made last fall. “We need independent thinkers like Tony Strickland in Sacramento.” Indeed.
As California teetered on the brink of bankruptcy and the Capitol descended into Hieronymus Bosch nightmare scenes of full-blown, running-with-scissors madness, Santa Barbara’s rookie state senator emerged as a high-profile player who was, to be sure, both a leader and an independent thinker. Just not quite in the way Arnold would have wished.
To read the entire article please visit the Santa Barbara Indenpendent’s website at: http://www.independent.com/news/2009/feb/19/running-scissors/
