For more than two years, Bill Berryhill of Ceres has been wanting to serve in the state Assembly.
You thought the election was behind us, but oh, no. Even as the ballots are still being counted for 2008, a number of candidates for 2010 are warming up.
Not everything connected to politics is controversial, costly or suspicious. Some of the 800-plus bills passed by the Legislature this year were simply intended to achieve a worthwhile end. Assemblyman Tom Berryhill, R-Modesto, carried one of those -- Assembly Concurrent Resolution 156, to name a stretch of Highway 120 near Groveland in honor of firefighter Eva Marie Schicke, who was killed four years ago this weekend.