Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Booze and bull
In the category of lobbying standouts, there’s both Sempra Energy’s Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, who purportedly mixed it up with ex–GOP assemblyman Mike Duvall this summer (they both later denied the hanky-panky), and Jim Cassie of Capitol Strategies Group, a contract-lobbying outfit that works for Sempra. Cassie just won first place for “best storyteller,” awarded by Sacramento’s Capitol Weekly, which asked all 120 California legislators to rate the legislature’s 1100 lobbyists in 13 categories. “Some lawmakers demurred from filling out our survey, citing a lack of time, interest or knowledge about the entire lobbying corps,” CW said. “But most members and chiefs of staff we spoke to were eager to participate.”
In the first nine months of this year, Sempra paid Capitol Strategies $96,000. Before going to work for the lobbying firm, SDSU grad Cassie retired in 2000 after 30 years at Sempra and its predecessor, San Diego Gas & Electric. Sempra became famous for its role in the 1996 passage of the controversial utility deregulation bill authored by Democrat Steve Peace that resulted in the infamous Enron rate manipulation scandal.
Well-known for his appreciation of fine food and drink, Cassie announced this September that he was starting a one-week “internship” at Sacramento’s Tuli Bistro, according to California’s Capitol, a political website. “Lobbying has been a great job, but there are other things I want to do with my life. And I’ve always been interested in the cooking part of the restaurant business,” he said. “Barry Broad writes books, Bob Giroux raises Shetland ponies and I’m interested in food preparation.”
Here's something you might be interested in.
Booze and bull
Booze and bull
In the category of lobbying standouts, there’s both Sempra Energy’s Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, who purportedly mixed it up with ex–GOP assemblyman Mike Duvall this summer (they both later denied the hanky-panky), and Jim Cassie of Capitol Strategies Group, a contract-lobbying outfit that works for Sempra. Cassie just won first place for “best storyteller,” awarded by Sacramento’s Capitol Weekly, which asked all 120 California legislators to rate the legislature’s 1100 lobbyists in 13 categories. “Some lawmakers demurred from filling out our survey, citing a lack of time, interest or knowledge about the entire lobbying corps,” CW said. “But most members and chiefs of staff we spoke to were eager to participate.”
In the first nine months of this year, Sempra paid Capitol Strategies $96,000. Before going to work for the lobbying firm, SDSU grad Cassie retired in 2000 after 30 years at Sempra and its predecessor, San Diego Gas & Electric. Sempra became famous for its role in the 1996 passage of the controversial utility deregulation bill authored by Democrat Steve Peace that resulted in the infamous Enron rate manipulation scandal.
Well-known for his appreciation of fine food and drink, Cassie announced this September that he was starting a one-week “internship” at Sacramento’s Tuli Bistro, according to California’s Capitol, a political website. “Lobbying has been a great job, but there are other things I want to do with my life. And I’ve always been interested in the cooking part of the restaurant business,” he said. “Barry Broad writes books, Bob Giroux raises Shetland ponies and I’m interested in food preparation.”
Comments