SAG is Getting Desperate ...

Apparently SAG is so desperate for anything resembling good news for their floundering campaign that they have resorted to outright, verifiable lying.

It's sad. While we disagree with their strategies and their haphazard rush, we do sympathize with and support the idea that all citizens should be proactively engaged in improving our community and its government.

“Support is growing for the Mayor’s new consenus plan. Read The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board’s latest endorsement” SAG claimed in an email to supporters yesterday afternoon. Feel free to click that link and see if you can figure out how they interpret that Editorial as an endorsement.

Couldn't figure it out? No, neither could we. What's more, neither could The Sacramento Bee's Editorial Board.

Nice try, mayor.

As we stated in an editorial Thursday, the mayor is "getting closer to getting it right on his strong-mayor plan." But we are not in favor of a rush to the ballot.

If that is what constitutes an endorsement these days, well, Boss Mayor agrees. The compromise Kevin Johnson struck with himself seems less bad than his original plan. Any change, short of disbanding the Senate and declaring himself Emperor would have been an improvement. (We will leave the reader to guess whether we at Boss Mayor just watched Star Wars or HBO's Rome.)

We say seems, because, despite all of the press, the plan does not actually exist yet. All we know are a few basic bullet points -- and as the original Boss Mayor Initiative proved, the devil is very much in the details.

Our work would not be complete if we did not point out that this desperate gamble was all exposed by Sacramento New and Review's Cosmo Garvin.

Bee endorses strong mayor lite? Bullshit.

Well, give KJ credit for trying. I’m sure a lot of His followers believed this afternoon’s email blast from Sacramentans for Accountable Government group, claiming that the Sacramento Bee had embraced His strong mayor lite proposal yesterday.

Come out to City Hall Tuesday at 6 pm to tell the City Council that you agree with the Bee that rushing a proposal onto the June ballot is irresponsible and that the City should be focusing on more important priorities.