Oscar Sunday has arrived, and while the celebrities are preening for their 30-seconds on screen, we thought at F&H we should put out Oscars for California political performances so far this year.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Best Actor: Neel Kashkari, on the streets of Fresno (albeit a performance that the locals didn’t vote for)
Best Subtle Performance: Jerry Brown at his budget press conference assuring reporters Prop 30 taxes are temporary … or are they? See Joel’s column here and Dan Walters here both picking up the same thing, maybe there is some flexibility in the word “temporary.”
Best Imitation of Hamlet: Antonio Villaraigosa – Will he or won’t he run for the U.S. Senate?
Best Special Effects: Kevin de Leon’s swearing in as Pro Tem
Best Original Song: Kim Alexander and California Voter Foundation 2014 Proposition Song
Best Director: Ace Smith, making all the political actors move as he wishes
Best Editing: Nathan Fletcher, turning his war hero Republican movie into an independent film, then a mainstream Democratic one
Best Adapted Screenplay: Prop. 2, with spare parts from previous rainy day fund attempts
Best Supporting Actor: Sutter Brown
Best Costume (to Prove this is Not 1980 California): Proposed ballot measures to reverse English Only, require condoms in porn films, and legalize marijuana
Surprise Newcomer of the Year: Assemblywoman Patty Lopez
Most Surprising Performance: Leland Yee, really was there any doubt?
Originally published by Fox and Hounds Daily
Joel Fox is Editor of Fox & Hounds and President of the Small Business Action Committee. Joe Mathews is Connecting California Columnist and Editor at Zócalo Public Square, and Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University.
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