• Send a message: “From the e-mail I get, they want to blow this place up. They want to hang all the legislators, kick them out of office, everything.” — Los Angeles Times journalist George Skelton.

Numbers

• 30: Percentage of Public Policy Institute of California poll respondents who approve of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

• 21: Percentage of poll respondents who approve of the state Legislature.

• 23: Percentage of respondents who favor a ballot initiative that would create a part-time Legislature.

• 70: Percentage of respondents who favor a “blanket primary,” which would pair the top-two primary election vote-getters in a general election, regardless of their party affiliation.