Fabian Hearts Hillary
On Monday, I interviewed Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez in his Capitol office about the amendments to his health care reform bill. And at more than one point, Nunez seemed to gush about the lessons he says he learned from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on the issue (mainly, what not to do, after the 1994 failure of her effort on the national stage). It wasn't the first time he had heaped praise on the now-Democratic candidate for president.
And it wasn't the last.
Speaker Nunez has now endorsed of the junior senator from New York in her quest for the Oval Office. Political circles started buzzing about the decision yesterday, and it was made official this morning in a conference call with reporters.
"If you look at her [experience], the day she gets elected president she's going to be able to hit the ground running," Nunez said this morning. That's just what Clinton's campaign hopes to focus on, as she's challenged by relative newcomers like Sen. Barack Obama.
And Sen. Clinton did her part in the mutual lovefest, pointing out the Nunez "gets things done in a bipartisan way." She also described his work on the global warming law, AB 32, as "pioneering."
Nunez has agreed to sign on as a national co-chair. And with the state Democratic party convention coming up this weekend in San Diego, the endorsement race appears to be on.
