Wage Law

This is way off topic, and for employee side wage and hour lawyers, the news of a victory by an extremely conservative politician is usually nothing to celebrate, but we offer our sincerest congratulations to former Assemblyman Tony Strickland, who won the Republican nomination for Controller, notwithstanding early data, published in the morning newspapers, that had him trailing.

In the general election, Tony will battle John Chiang, who won a close contest against Joe Dunn (one of our favorite legislators) in the Democratic primary. We've known Tony for more than a decade, dating back to when he and Mark Walsh played basketball for the Whittier College Poets. We wish him luck.

We do not wish the same, however, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who won the Republican primary for governor in an 89.9% landslide. We find it interesting, however, that almost ten percent of Republicans voted against Arnold and selected one of three practically unknown candidates. With the exception of the friends and family vote, most of those votes probably represent a Republican who will be casting a ballot for Phil Angelides in November.