I suppose this is an outstanding story.

It's because Californians are always driving like they are being chased by the cops. Oregonians are worse though, but they don't get pulled over much because everyone in Washington hates Californians, especially after the energy deregulation that let Enron fuck you guys. The power companies in Washington had to run at full capacity to lessen your brownouts and got fucked out of millions in the process. Fuck California!

Yeah, sorry about Gray Davis, we recalled his ass if you recall.

I would also agree that they police are fucked up.

So why did you get pulled over this time?

I think he found it suspicious when I turned onto a road that few people turn on. He had been following me for about a mile beforehand and it was the first turn I could make to get him off my tail. I was going to this guys house to help him with computer problems, he lived down that road. As soon as I turned he put his lights on, got up on my ass, and hit me with his spotlight.
It's possibly related to the night before when he saw me at work, I work later than most people and was coming out of an area that's pretty out of the way and has a lot of expensive stuff in it. Everyone else had left for the day. He happened to be walking by for some reason and paused to look at me. I waved, he waved back and kept walking but was very obviously paying attention to me for awhile after that. We were walking in the same direction with me behind him, at least until he ducked around a corner. In theory, because he was in the same area last night and saw me get into my car he figured he'd follow me and see what happened. Considering how he got behind me in the parking lot in such a blatant way it seems like a pretty logical conclusion, he probably thought I turned because he had spooked me.

Thats called good police work. See something sketchy/odd -> look into it. I'd rather police think that people are up to something and wait to be disprove than the other way round.

California has one of the worst ratios of money sent - money received from federal governemnt. As in we send them a dollar, we get back much less. Say what you will, but California is not being selfish, rather we're getting F*d taking care of a lot of other states.

"California has been what public policy analysts call a "net donor" state for more than 20 years. Not since President Ronald Reagan's defense buildup of the 1980s has the state received from Washington more than it sends"-from a news article.

Yea, the recall campaign was jacked up. Go figure the suits controlling the false inflation of electrical prices were the same suits backing up the recall campaign.
I'd disagree however that Arnie has done a bad job. He's done a decent job, and frankly better than I would expect with the amount of special interest groups and pathetically partisan state senate he's dealing with. And that goes both sides of the aisle.