George Skelton on Civil Discourse and Campaigns and the Turkeys Who Run Them
FBLA confesses to being a less-than-stellar Bear State citizen. We don’t pay enough attention to Sacramento and those who cover it. George Skelton, the LA Times’ veteran reporter, writes in his Capitol Journal column today about how close politicians and reporters used to be.
While covering Ronald Reagan’s running against Pat Brown for governor, 40 years ago, Skelton and others rode with the candidates in their plane. He writes:
Reagan’s aircraft was especially colorful: a bucking, WW II-vintage, twin-engine DC-3 lent by a San Joaquin Valley turkey farmer who used it for hauling his birds.
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