California Nightmare

Previously we talked to California's preeminent historian, Kevin Starr about the '50s and the golden age of abundance in California.  Today we have a state whose economy is in shambles, and still people want to be the Governor of California.  It's a little like asking to captain of the Titanic?  New York Times Washington Correspondent Mark Leibovich, in his NY Times Magazine cover story last week, looks at Newsom, Brown, Campbell, Whitman and Poizner and their quest to replace Arnold.   Here is my conversation with Mark Leibovich: