George Skelton writes about state politics for the Los Angeles Times. For anyone concerned with the statehouse, the Governor, proposition battles, elections and the like, he's a must-read. Skelton and the Sacramento Bee's Dan Morain are my favorite opinion writers in California; the great Sactown Magazine did a lovely piece on Skelton in the December-January issue I recommend picking up somewhere. (I really enjoy having a subscription to Sactown. It's the magazine our city has long deserved.) And thus concludes this episode of Ziller on Political Journalism in California.

Anyway, Skelton wrote about Kevin Johnson's fight to keep the Kings in Sacramento for Sunday's paper. It's as good as you'd expect, given the writer. But there's also one helluva anecdote at the end of the column.

(No, Skelton's not a big guy.)

For a set of owners devoted completely to customer service, this must have been quite embarrassing. Right.

There's one more item to flag. It's a quote from Darius Anderson, the lobbyist who connected KJ and Ron Burkle back in 2011.

And now I am officially ready to run through a brick wall. Let's do this.