Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, and Chuck DeVore, California Assemblymember, 70th Assembly District

Chuck DeVore is the California State Assemblymember from the 70th Assembly District, which includes Irvine, in Orange County, California.

Assemblymember DeVore was a formerly an Irvine City Commissioner, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, and a Senior Assistant to California Congressmember Chris Cox.

Assemblymember DeVore is also an Assembly co-author of SCA6, a Senate Constitutional Amendment now pending in the California legislature that would remove the phrase "absent from the state" from the state constitution as a reason for tranferring gubernatorial authority from the sitting governor to the lieutenant governor, who now becomes the Acting Governor whenever the incumbent Governor leaves the physical confines of the State of California.

Assemblymember DeVore spoke exclusively this afternoon from Irvine with California Politics Today about SCA6.

Assemblymember DeVore indicated that if it proves impossible to put SCA6--the "always-on governor" amendment--on the statewide California ballot due to opposition from Democratic Party partisans eager to preserve a means of harassing Governor Schwarzenegger through the antics of Lieutenent Governor Cruz Bustamante while he's serving as Acting Governor in lieu of Governor (and former actor) Schwarzenegger when he is outside the state promoting its interests, then proponents of this change in the California Constitution might launch an initiative campaign to put it on the ballot anyway.

He said that might depend on whether or not SCA6 opponents are able to marshall sound arguments against it, rather than just opposing it on grounds of political convenience and expediency.

You can listen to Assemblymember Chuck Devore's views on the subject of SCA6 by clicking here.