Countdown to Sacramento . . .

This time next week, we will winding the SLO Chamber Legislative trip to Sacramento down. Between now and them, the chamber staff will be in Washington, D.C. on a lobbying trip relative to the card check legislation, and helping to run a board training session in Atascadero for chamber board members across the area. So, it's going to be an intense few days for the staff.

I am off to science camp with the 5th graders, so I am not sure which of us will be more tired by Monday.

In Sacramento, we will be meeting with Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee (now Minority Leader), Senator Abel Maldonado, State Parks Director Ruth Coleman, Insurance Commissioner and 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, State Controller John Chiang and others. So, it looks like Ermina Karim, Director of Governmental Affairs, has a terrific lineup of folks for us to talk to, and at a time when our state is in the midst of some historic issues.

It should be a good trip. We leave at 5:45 a.m. on Monday, June 8, 2009 . . .