More interesting was Assembly Speaker Democrat Karen Bass, dismissing Democrat Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, from her office to a cubbyhole across the street for not voting for the Democrat stalemate budget. “Now that’s news!” Paul Harvey Jr. would crow. And it’s news that does not bode well for the voters in the Diablo Valley who have to wonder who’s interests Joan Buchanan will represent if she defeats Abram Wilson, the district’s or Karen Bass? Ask them both when Karen Bass headlines a Buchanan fundraiser, September 10.