I subscribe to the Capitol Alert through the "Sacramento Bee" website. An interesting article about a Democrat being punished for voting against the budget was in the e-mail that I received. Click here to read the article which was in the Sacramento Bee.

I remember when Todd Spitzer was sent into the "broom closet" after he angered Fabian Nunez who I jokingly refer to as Fabio. Fabio used the power of holding the majority to punish one of Orange Counties finest. This is not that shocking though as tension does exist beteen Republican and Democratic legislators.

It does surprise me though that the Democrats would turn on their own. Kicking Democrat Nicole Parra out of her office and across the street sounds crazy. Do they expect her to just decide that the nasty people who kicked her out of her office can be trusted. I think this will hurt the chances of the Democrats to earn the vote of Parra who is likely to be slightly perturbed by the actions of her party. After all you do win more flies with sugar.

As far as strategy is concerned this is not a bad thing for Republicans. Sun Tzu in "The Art Of War" (One of my favorite books) talks of the strategy divide and conquer. In California it could be difficult to conquer the majority party but the idea of dividing seems to be occurring on its own.