George Skelton

Maybe.

George Skelton came out against it.

No, he came out for it.

Did he? He came in for it.

Sherry, our gift today is Bob Stern, who is a veteran observer, not observer, scholar of California politics and of something that's occupying our thoughts in the next last couple of weeks, the initiative process.

Bob, who was a colleague of mine, When I was fortunate enough to work for the Center for Governmental Studies, which was a pioneering group that really dug up the dirt on California politics and what was going on, I worked with him there.

Bob is a teacher at Santa Monica College Emeritus Group Teaching, and he teaches at UCLA also.

A well-rounded person, a man of wide experience, and a person with very strong ideas on what's happening in this world.

Are you talking about Prop 9,

Bob? I'm talking about Prop 9 in 1974, the Political Reform Act of 1974.

Unfortunately, though, that night that it was passing by 70%, I turned to my colleague and I said, Dad, I'm 30 years old.

Is this the highlight of my professional career? And he said, I don't know.