Today on PolitiCal: Chief justice calls it quits; Brown says Schwarzenegger 'failed'

Here are some of the stories we're following today on PolitiCal:

California Chief Justice Ronald George announced today that he will not seek reelection in November, creating a vacancy for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill.

Jerry Brown said Schwarzenegger has "failed" as governor.

Schwarzenegger's poll numbers are now just as bad as Gray Davis' were shortly before Davis was recalled.

Labor unions launched a new anti-Meg Whitman online game.

Get the latest on these stories and all the latest from California politics on PolitiCal.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento

Comments

[James Jackson]

There's more to California than Big Business versus Labor. Schwarzenegger has done a good job serving all Californians. Look at our gubernatorial choices coming up: Selfish Big Business versus selfish Labor. Most voters belong to neither camp, and neither party has expressed an interest in the concerns of ordinary citizens. This can't go on forever. California is slowly breaking down.

[Mary Carter]

Arnold didn't do too much as governor. He liked photo ops and smoking his giant cigars and calling himself governor of the largest state but he didn't really accomplish very much in the way of tangible goals. California is not "slowly breaking down", it has already broken down. I left and a lot more people will do the same soon. Every time I look at CA news websites it's the same story: murder, drugs, overdevelopment, hatred. I'm glad not to be living there any more.