#13 Nahncee: Dirty little secret of California politics: we have sectional political factions, because the state is so big. People from San Francisco and the upper half of the state tend to despise Southern California. The last time San Francisco had a real mayoral election, the *conservative* candidate (who won) is a liberal Democrat…his opposition was a Green party candidate even further to the left of him. They oppose grubby money-making projects, especially ones that have appeal to mass culture, like Hollywood (whether this movie does that or not).
Given what I just told you (California has sectional politics), will you be surprised to discover that Feinstein (former mayor of San Francisco), Boxer (former Representative from Marin Co., to the north of S.F.) and Pelosi (Representative from S.F. itself), are all probably supremely indifferent to any travails involving the movie industry. Quite frankly, Los Angeles and the movie industry (not the actors, who are shallow idiots for the most part, I mean the guys who construct sets, sew costumes, and actually shoot the scenes) doesn’t really have much representation in Congress right now at all. Witness the attempts over the last decade or so to ship productions to Canada or other states in the Union. Nobody in Southern California politics is taken seriously, and so it hasn’t happened (so far) because so much of the infrastructure is already here, and people simply don’t want to move it somewhere else.
