“Wouldn’t do that again,” she said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Talked immediately to my colleagues from Florida and realized that that was something that just shouldn’t have been said.” Bass said she had made a mistake calling Castro “Comandante en Jefe,” a description widely detested by Cuban exiles. Here she was, a liberal Democrat and the first Black woman to lead a statehouse in the nation’s history, one of the three most powerful elected leaders of California in a moment of fiscal peril, and a wholly different kind of player navigating among men in a thick haze of cigar smoke. “‘I guess you probably don’t want to be doing business here,’” the governor told her, as Ms. Bass felt apart from that club the moment she stepped through the canvas flaps at the invitation of Mr. Newly elected as the speaker of the State Assembly, Ms. Schwarzenegger, his aides and California’s most influential players - mostly white men - went there to smoke expensive cigars and talk politics and legislative deals. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an invitation-only retreat with folding chairs, a fake grass floor and ashtrays. It was set up in the courtyard outside the office of Gov. LOS ANGELES - In 2008, as California confronted its most severe fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, the center of power in the state capital was a tent.
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