Reiner rebuked

Rob Reiner's California Children and Families Commission, also known as the First 5 Commission, is the target of a stinging state audit. The commission "failed to properly award millions of dollars and did not adequately justify many of its payments," the Times' Dan Morain reports on the web. The audit grows out of Proposition 82, Reiner's universal child care initiative that failed to pass on the June ballot, and legislators' questions about whether the commission's state funds were used to promote it. The audit concludes that the commission, which Reiner headed, "violated no laws when it aired television commercials last winter touting the benefits of preschool at the same time Reiner began [his] campaign."