Responding to my call for California to move to nonpartisan election administration at the state level, Barry Keene offers his own model to achieve the goals of neutrality and accountability. Meanwhile, Dan Walters reports: “Legislative leaders are virtually begging Schwarzenegger to appoint a caretaker who wouldn’t seek election to a new term in 2006, but he’s planning to name a Republican – perhaps a Latino – who would, in fact, run in 2006 and begin rebuilding the otherwise nonexistent bench of statewide GOP political figures.”