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Which do you want first, the bad news or the badder news?

Depressingly accurate lede from The Los Angeles Times:
Californians have never known more about a new governor. We’ve seen him naked on screen. We know about the Nazi father, the celebrity journalist wife, the bodybuilding titles and the crude behavior toward women. We have seen him in theaters, fallen asleep to his voice on television and imitated his accent.
Californians have never known less about a new governor. We’ve never seen him hold office. We don’t know what programs he’ll cut, how he’ll balance the budget, how he’ll negotiate with recalcitrant legislators or how he’ll manage the state’s bureaucracy.

THE NEW GOVERNOR: So Familiar Yet So Unknown, by Joe Matthews (requires registration)