Keep It In The House

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Last week Bill Mundell, chairman for the Californians for Fair Redistricting, sent out a press release challenging Attorney General Bill Lockyer to a public debate on the language discrepancies recently revealed in Proposition 77.

Mundell’s attempt to grandstand on the issue is ironic given the Sacramento Bee’s latest discovery on the measure. Over the weekend, the Bee reported that the Governor’s taxpayer-funded legal affairs secretary, Peter Siggins, and a campaign attorney for Prop. 77, Daniel Kolkey, “talked with each other” and knew about the measure’s legal problems, but hid them until after Secretary of State McPherson certified the measure.

Maybe Bill Mundell (did we mention that he wants to run for U.S. Senate?) should stop trying to burnish his statewide credentials and just come clean with voters.

Mundell and his cohorts, Ted Costa, Kolkey and the rest of the band that couldn’t shoot straight (otherwise known as the Citizens to Save California) should do the right thing and release all of the documents relating to the drafting of this initiative and the related cover-up.