A little more "inside info" for you Californians from Weintraub. I hope Riordan is up to the job. I hear he is getting a little tired.
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California Insider
A Weblog by
Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub
November 02, 2003
Arduin in at finance; Riordan to be ed secretary
Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce two major appointments Monday, naming Florida budget chief Donna Arduin as his finance director and former Los Angeles Mayor Dick Riordan his secretary for child development and education. Arduin, who worked in the budget offices of Michigan and New York before taking the top budget job in Florida, has been conducting the independent audit Schwarzenegger promised during the campaign. No results of that investigation have yet been made public, but Arduin apparently has impressed the new boss enough to win the post. Riordan, who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 until 2001, made education one of his top priorities in that job even though the mayor had no direct powers over the schools. He led a movement to elect a reform-minded majority to the city school board in opposition to a slate supported by the teachers union, though what exactly resulted from his commitment to the schools remains unclear. Riordan, 73, ran for governor last year and considered running again in the recall race until Schwarzenegger, a longtime friend, jumped in. Education Secretary would seem to be a step down for him. But he wanted the job, and campaigned for it. Look for him to use the position as a bully pulpit to advocate for local control and a reduction in the state education bureaucracy.
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