May 5, 2008

Roundup: TV ads, WiFi and Mexico

• Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, along with a small bipartisan delegation of lawmakers, is heading to Mexico later this week to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderón.

Going along for the trip will be Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San Jose, Assemblyman Kevin DeLeón, D-Los Angeles, and Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria.

The speaker's office reports "the visit is a result of Calderón’s invitation to visit Mexico City after the Mexican president spoke before a joint session of the legislature on February 13, 2008."

• Senate candidate Joe Nation unveiled his first television ad of the campaign. In it, Nation, a former assemblyman, stakes out the environment as his top issue.

• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the creation of the first Capitol wireless Internet "hot spot" -- in room 1190, the press conference room. They are currently working on turning the Capitol basement cafeteria into another publicly accessible Wi-Fi hot spot.

He also announced "five other Wi-Fi access points are in the pilot phase." They are:

Secretary of State
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Wi-Fi access in the 2nd floor cafeteria

The California Museum for History, Women & the Arts
1020 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Wi-Fi access in the lobby

Library and Courts II
900 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Wi-Fi access in the garden and the Braille library

Department of General Services
707 3rd Street
West Sacramento, CA 95605
Wi-Fi access in the lobby

Office of State Publishing
344 North 7th Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
Wi-Fi access in the lobby

Posted by Shane Goldmacher on May 5, 2008 2:18 PM