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After suffering an overwhelming defeat of all four of his "year of reform" measures in the November 8 special election, California's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, decided he had to shake up his cabinet. His appointment of Susan Kennedy as his new chief of staff registered a 9.9 on the political Richter scale and may have started a tsunami that will have enormous impact on Golden State politics. The "Governator" would have been hard pressed to find any candidate more certain to inflame and alienate the people who elected him to office.
What's so significant about Susan Kennedy? Here are a few clues:
* She's a militant lesbian activist who "married" her partner, Vicki Marti, in Hawaii in 1999.
* She's not just a radical Democrat, but a former executive director of the California Democratic Party and the number two cabinet official to former Democrat Governor Gray Davis, whom Schwarzenegger unseated in the 2003 recall election.
* She was one of the key activists/lobbyists who ...