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(\"Just a short drive south of Pelosiville,\" according to KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gaHJz7qz4s&w=480&h=274]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/02/26/california-republicans-try-balancing-act-again/\">Myers' take on Gingrich's speech\u003c/a>: It's a good example of the GOP's California dilemma...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Throw the party's base supporters some choice red meat... and risk that persuadable voters who tune into the media coverage recoil. But tamp down the fiery rhetoric in hopes of projecting a \"kinder, gentler\" image... and risk leaving the party faithful full of accusations that moderates are trying to water down the GOP brand...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a dilemma that has frankly been playing itself out for several years running at the semi-annual (yes, two of them every year) state GOP confabs. This weekend's gathering... seemed to find California Republicans trying to do both things, though with a decided tilt to the red meat base strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was best seen by having Newt Gingrich, the opinionated and often bombastic former House speaker, as their featured attraction. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/25/MNFV1NCFCL.DTL&tsp=1\">45-minute lecture like oratory\u003c/a>, the Georgia politician not only excoriated President Barack Obama on foreign and energy policy, he also seemed to wade into issues that certainly wouldn't seem to produce headlines that would leave middle-of-the-road voters clamoring to vote Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, his strong endorsement of offshore oil drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"85% of the offshore acreage is not available,\" said Gingrich in a critique of the President's recent comments about offshore drilling options. \"I think you'd find, if we opened up offshore, it would be amazing how fast things would be developed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gingrich went on to say that states should control their own coasts, he boasted that even California pols would change their tune under a Gingrich administration. \"Sacramento would start thinking seriously about development\" under his proposal to allow states to keep 50% of offshore oil drilling royalties, he said. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/02/26/california-republicans-try-balancing-act-again/\">Full post here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the way, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/23/4284648/field-poll-obama-resurgent-in.html\">latest Field Poll shows Obama beating Gingrich\u003c/a> in a general section matchup 56 percent to 33 percent, roughly the same margin by which the president would defeat Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, according to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398475432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":395},"headData":{"title":"Analysis: Gingrich Speech to State GOP Example of Party's California Dilemma | KQED","description":"For those who just can't get enough Newt -- here's his entire 45-minute speech on Saturday at the California Republican convention in Burlingame. ("Just a short drive south of Pelosiville," according to KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers.) Myers' take on Gingrich's speech: It's a good example of the GOP's California dilemma... 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(\"Just a short drive south of Pelosiville,\" according to KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7gaHJz7qz4s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7gaHJz7qz4s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/02/26/california-republicans-try-balancing-act-again/\">Myers' take on Gingrich's speech\u003c/a>: It's a good example of the GOP's California dilemma...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Throw the party's base supporters some choice red meat... and risk that persuadable voters who tune into the media coverage recoil. But tamp down the fiery rhetoric in hopes of projecting a \"kinder, gentler\" image... and risk leaving the party faithful full of accusations that moderates are trying to water down the GOP brand...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a dilemma that has frankly been playing itself out for several years running at the semi-annual (yes, two of them every year) state GOP confabs. This weekend's gathering... seemed to find California Republicans trying to do both things, though with a decided tilt to the red meat base strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was best seen by having Newt Gingrich, the opinionated and often bombastic former House speaker, as their featured attraction. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/25/MNFV1NCFCL.DTL&tsp=1\">45-minute lecture like oratory\u003c/a>, the Georgia politician not only excoriated President Barack Obama on foreign and energy policy, he also seemed to wade into issues that certainly wouldn't seem to produce headlines that would leave middle-of-the-road voters clamoring to vote Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, his strong endorsement of offshore oil drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"85% of the offshore acreage is not available,\" said Gingrich in a critique of the President's recent comments about offshore drilling options. \"I think you'd find, if we opened up offshore, it would be amazing how fast things would be developed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gingrich went on to say that states should control their own coasts, he boasted that even California pols would change their tune under a Gingrich administration. \"Sacramento would start thinking seriously about development\" under his proposal to allow states to keep 50% of offshore oil drilling royalties, he said. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2012/02/26/california-republicans-try-balancing-act-again/\">Full post here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the way, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/23/4284648/field-poll-obama-resurgent-in.html\">latest Field Poll shows Obama beating Gingrich\u003c/a> in a general section matchup 56 percent to 33 percent, roughly the same margin by which the president would defeat Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, according to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/57779/analysis-gingrich-speech-to-california-gop-example-of-partys-california-dilemma","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_13"],"tags":["news_43","news_2157","news_386"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_46266":{"type":"posts","id":"news_46266","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"46266","score":null,"sort":[1320772589000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"government-reformers-eye-november-2012","title":"Reformers Eye November 2012 For Fixing California Governance Crisis","publishDate":1320772589,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Efforts to reform California's system of government -- a system that virtually no one denies is dysfunctional -- have been percolating for the last few years, but have never actually reached the boiling point. Now, reformers hope they can finally turn up the heat in time for the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46268\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46268\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty/David McNew\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do so will take money, a clear and coordinated message, and a way to overcome the opposition of political forces that thrive on the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major proposal was unveiled a few days ago, but others could be coming... and they'll need to do so soon: political experts point out that the jump zone is rapidly approaching for landing on the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tackling the Whole Enchilada\u003c/strong>: The bipartisan fix-government folks at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\">California Forward\u003c/a> have more than one big challenge on their hands with the proposed ballot initiative they filed last week. Not only do they now have to find a constituency for a government reform political campaign -- that is, deep pocketed donors whose motivation is more altruism than personal advancement -- they're also going to have to find some catchy way of explaining their measure, one that tackles just about everything on the dysfunctional government front in California. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Government Performance and Accountability Act\" (\u003ca href=\"http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i1011_11-0068_(government_performance).pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) runs 22 pages and proposes constitutional changes for both state and local government, with much of the proposal focused on budgeting. It includes a new multi-year approach to the state budget (beefier, it seems, than the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?bvid=20110SB1593CHP\">bill signed into law\u003c/a> by Governor Jerry Brown last month); a mandate for performance assessments of state operations (\u003ca href=\"http://sd05.senate.ca.gov/news/2011-10-10-governor-s-veto-performance-based-budgeting-bill-undermines-public-confidence\">\u003c/a>nixed by Brown with a dismissive veto message [\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_14_veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>]); and rules requiring that any tax cuts or new programs also include a way to finance those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_14_veto_Message.pdf\">proposed initiative\u003c/a> also mandates changes in the state-local government relationship. Most unique is its creation of 'Community Strategic Action Plans' starting in 2014, plans crafted with public input and laying out how local government budgets will promote \"a prosperous economy, quality environment, and community equity, as reflected in the following goals: increasing employment, improving education, decreasing poverty, decreasing crime, improving health, and other community priorities.\" Locals (cities, counties, schools) would also be required to set performance goals on these items, and later report back to their citizens about success or failure. The adoption of a strategic plan would trigger a new flexibility for locals in how to spend taxpayer dollars -- including the option of deciding among themselves how to divvy up those dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait, there's more. California Forward's initiative also modifies the general legislative process in Sacramento. Bills would have to be in print for at least three days, ending the time-honored tradition of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/17/3984771/last-minute-gut-and-amend-laws.html\">'gut and amend' lawmaking\u003c/a>; there would be a tighter calendar for bill action in year 2 of a legislative session, with the extra time used for legislative review of programs; and -- a \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-11-26/news/17517150_1_budget-chief-donna-arduin-budget-plan-spending-cap\">long-debated biggie\u003c/a> -- the governor would have new, unilateral powers to cut spending if the Legislature fails to act after the declaration of a fiscal emergency. Those cuts could be undone, but only by a supermajority legislative votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think this has the potential of restoring the public's confidence in government,\" said California Forward's executive director Jim Mayer in a series of email exchanges over the weekend. \"This is a strategic combination of best practices that is completely in sync with what the public thinks needs to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer says the group believes that their initiative, which would make multiple changes in state and local government operations, does not run afoul of California's '\u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Laws_governing_the_initiative_process_in_California#Single-subject_rule\">single subject rule\u003c/a>' for initiatives. \"Every element is focused on government performance and accountability,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer points to polling the group has done suggesting once voters are explained the ideas, they like them. But he concedes that the government reform group now faces the tough task of raising money to gather signatures, and says the next six weeks are crucial in that regard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the irony of ironies,\" he says, \"that an initiative developed through a very public process, based on real world success in public agencies, and which polls in the mid-60s can't reach the ballot without political contributions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money, though, wouldn't seem to be a problem for another would-be reformer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paging Mr. Berggruen\u003c/strong>: One thing California Forward is making clear is that their initiative is not the much-talked about proposal (or proposals) being crafted by a group known as the Think Long Committee, led by -- and presumably eventually financed by -- billionaire investor Nicholas Berggruen. There's some crossover in the groups, but not coordination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berggruen's group of all-star politicos continues to insist that it's on the verge of releasing some kind of reform proposal to place on the November 2012 ballot, one being \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/Think-Long-Committee-Could-Change-California-Governance-Game-130582463.html\">closely watched in reform circles\u003c/a>. Spokesperson Dawn Nakagawa said today that a proposal is indeed coming and will be ready in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berggruen, often dubbed the '\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/19/the-homeless-billionaire/\">homeless billionair\u003c/a>e' for the fact that he lives on his private jet and not in any one locale, was a little coy in an interview conducted for a special edition of KQED-TV's This Week on the state's governance crisis. The program airs this coming Friday night at 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea is to go beyond parties, beyond special interests and try to come up with a compromise,\" said Berggruen in an interview with Spencer Michels. He said his group's efforts will likely include both governance issues like the budget, and electoral issues like the initiative process. And he sees the fight as larger than just the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's I think interesting about California,\" said Berggruen, \"is that if we're able to make reforms here I think it'll be a signal, and California I think is a bellwether.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PuqMsHPzAU&feature=player_embedded\">excerpt\u003c/a> from my KQED TV colleagues, Berggruen is asked why he thinks he can succeed where others have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/_PuqMsHPzAU\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these efforts come on the heels of all the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/09/10/2010-year-of-ca-government-reform/\">buzzed-but-collapsed\u003c/a> efforts in 2010, from California Forward's own efforts to a separate group that sought to convene a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2010/02/10/constitutional-convention-on-the-ropes/\">full-blown California constitutional convention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November 2012 Ticking Clock\u003c/strong>: As everyone points out, it's hard not to notice that reformers really only have one avenue for change: the voters, most likely via an initiative. And it's the initiative process' timetable that's triggering so many proposals to come forward as 2011 winds down, including ones on other hot button issues not related to governance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives must have fiscal and legal vetting before backers can begin gathering signatures, and that (by law) can take up to 40 business days. With the holidays approaching, that means a proposed initiative may not be ready to hit the streets until sometime in early January. Initiatives must qualify for the ballot -- and constitutional proposals, such as these, require more signatures -- at least 131 days before the November 6, 2012 election. That's June 28 of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now backtime the days, and dollars, needed for gathering signatures, submitting them to elections officials, and having those signatures validated, and you can see that the race is on. And, of course, this is all before anyone starts trying to sell the ideas to voters... and fights the inevitable opposition from interest groups who might see their power diminish under the proposed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Update: Longtime political columnist and initiative watcher Peter Schrag ends a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/coming-now-another-big-fix-california\">column published online yesterday\u003c/a> about the California Forward initiative this way: \"It could make things marginally better. Could.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1320773732,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1280},"headData":{"title":"Reformers Eye November 2012 For Fixing California Governance Crisis | KQED","description":"Efforts to reform California's system of government -- a system that virtually no one denies is dysfunctional -- have been percolating for the last few years, but have never actually reached the boiling point. Now, reformers hope they can finally turn up the heat in time for the November 2012 ballot. To do so will","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"46266 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=46266","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/08/government-reformers-eye-november-2012/","disqusTitle":"Reformers Eye November 2012 For Fixing California Governance Crisis","path":"/news/46266/government-reformers-eye-november-2012","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Efforts to reform California's system of government -- a system that virtually no one denies is dysfunctional -- have been percolating for the last few years, but have never actually reached the boiling point. Now, reformers hope they can finally turn up the heat in time for the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_46268\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Polling-Place-generic-Getty-CROP-300x300\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46268\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty/David McNew\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To do so will take money, a clear and coordinated message, and a way to overcome the opposition of political forces that thrive on the status quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major proposal was unveiled a few days ago, but others could be coming... and they'll need to do so soon: political experts point out that the jump zone is rapidly approaching for landing on the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tackling the Whole Enchilada\u003c/strong>: The bipartisan fix-government folks at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\">California Forward\u003c/a> have more than one big challenge on their hands with the proposed ballot initiative they filed last week. Not only do they now have to find a constituency for a government reform political campaign -- that is, deep pocketed donors whose motivation is more altruism than personal advancement -- they're also going to have to find some catchy way of explaining their measure, one that tackles just about everything on the dysfunctional government front in California. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Government Performance and Accountability Act\" (\u003ca href=\"http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i1011_11-0068_(government_performance).pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) runs 22 pages and proposes constitutional changes for both state and local government, with much of the proposal focused on budgeting. It includes a new multi-year approach to the state budget (beefier, it seems, than the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?bvid=20110SB1593CHP\">bill signed into law\u003c/a> by Governor Jerry Brown last month); a mandate for performance assessments of state operations (\u003ca href=\"http://sd05.senate.ca.gov/news/2011-10-10-governor-s-veto-performance-based-budgeting-bill-undermines-public-confidence\">\u003c/a>nixed by Brown with a dismissive veto message [\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_14_veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>]); and rules requiring that any tax cuts or new programs also include a way to finance those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_14_veto_Message.pdf\">proposed initiative\u003c/a> also mandates changes in the state-local government relationship. Most unique is its creation of 'Community Strategic Action Plans' starting in 2014, plans crafted with public input and laying out how local government budgets will promote \"a prosperous economy, quality environment, and community equity, as reflected in the following goals: increasing employment, improving education, decreasing poverty, decreasing crime, improving health, and other community priorities.\" Locals (cities, counties, schools) would also be required to set performance goals on these items, and later report back to their citizens about success or failure. The adoption of a strategic plan would trigger a new flexibility for locals in how to spend taxpayer dollars -- including the option of deciding among themselves how to divvy up those dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait, there's more. California Forward's initiative also modifies the general legislative process in Sacramento. Bills would have to be in print for at least three days, ending the time-honored tradition of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/17/3984771/last-minute-gut-and-amend-laws.html\">'gut and amend' lawmaking\u003c/a>; there would be a tighter calendar for bill action in year 2 of a legislative session, with the extra time used for legislative review of programs; and -- a \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-11-26/news/17517150_1_budget-chief-donna-arduin-budget-plan-spending-cap\">long-debated biggie\u003c/a> -- the governor would have new, unilateral powers to cut spending if the Legislature fails to act after the declaration of a fiscal emergency. Those cuts could be undone, but only by a supermajority legislative votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think this has the potential of restoring the public's confidence in government,\" said California Forward's executive director Jim Mayer in a series of email exchanges over the weekend. \"This is a strategic combination of best practices that is completely in sync with what the public thinks needs to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer says the group believes that their initiative, which would make multiple changes in state and local government operations, does not run afoul of California's '\u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Laws_governing_the_initiative_process_in_California#Single-subject_rule\">single subject rule\u003c/a>' for initiatives. \"Every element is focused on government performance and accountability,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer points to polling the group has done suggesting once voters are explained the ideas, they like them. But he concedes that the government reform group now faces the tough task of raising money to gather signatures, and says the next six weeks are crucial in that regard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the irony of ironies,\" he says, \"that an initiative developed through a very public process, based on real world success in public agencies, and which polls in the mid-60s can't reach the ballot without political contributions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money, though, wouldn't seem to be a problem for another would-be reformer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paging Mr. Berggruen\u003c/strong>: One thing California Forward is making clear is that their initiative is not the much-talked about proposal (or proposals) being crafted by a group known as the Think Long Committee, led by -- and presumably eventually financed by -- billionaire investor Nicholas Berggruen. There's some crossover in the groups, but not coordination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berggruen's group of all-star politicos continues to insist that it's on the verge of releasing some kind of reform proposal to place on the November 2012 ballot, one being \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/Think-Long-Committee-Could-Change-California-Governance-Game-130582463.html\">closely watched in reform circles\u003c/a>. Spokesperson Dawn Nakagawa said today that a proposal is indeed coming and will be ready in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berggruen, often dubbed the '\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/19/the-homeless-billionaire/\">homeless billionair\u003c/a>e' for the fact that he lives on his private jet and not in any one locale, was a little coy in an interview conducted for a special edition of KQED-TV's This Week on the state's governance crisis. The program airs this coming Friday night at 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea is to go beyond parties, beyond special interests and try to come up with a compromise,\" said Berggruen in an interview with Spencer Michels. He said his group's efforts will likely include both governance issues like the budget, and electoral issues like the initiative process. And he sees the fight as larger than just the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's I think interesting about California,\" said Berggruen, \"is that if we're able to make reforms here I think it'll be a signal, and California I think is a bellwether.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PuqMsHPzAU&feature=player_embedded\">excerpt\u003c/a> from my KQED TV colleagues, Berggruen is asked why he thinks he can succeed where others have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/_PuqMsHPzAU\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these efforts come on the heels of all the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/09/10/2010-year-of-ca-government-reform/\">buzzed-but-collapsed\u003c/a> efforts in 2010, from California Forward's own efforts to a separate group that sought to convene a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2010/02/10/constitutional-convention-on-the-ropes/\">full-blown California constitutional convention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November 2012 Ticking Clock\u003c/strong>: As everyone points out, it's hard not to notice that reformers really only have one avenue for change: the voters, most likely via an initiative. And it's the initiative process' timetable that's triggering so many proposals to come forward as 2011 winds down, including ones on other hot button issues not related to governance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives must have fiscal and legal vetting before backers can begin gathering signatures, and that (by law) can take up to 40 business days. With the holidays approaching, that means a proposed initiative may not be ready to hit the streets until sometime in early January. Initiatives must qualify for the ballot -- and constitutional proposals, such as these, require more signatures -- at least 131 days before the November 6, 2012 election. That's June 28 of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now backtime the days, and dollars, needed for gathering signatures, submitting them to elections officials, and having those signatures validated, and you can see that the race is on. And, of course, this is all before anyone starts trying to sell the ideas to voters... and fights the inevitable opposition from interest groups who might see their power diminish under the proposed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Update: Longtime political columnist and initiative watcher Peter Schrag ends a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/coming-now-another-big-fix-california\">column published online yesterday\u003c/a> about the California Forward initiative this way: \"It could make things marginally better. Could.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/46266/government-reformers-eye-november-2012","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_152","news_43","news_71"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_45920":{"type":"posts","id":"news_45920","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"45920","score":null,"sort":[1320357031000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-pension-initiatives-target-current-workers","title":"New Pension Initiatives Target Current Workers","publishDate":1320357031,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There's a temptation to dust off the quote attributed to an infamous bank robber when assessing two new and explosive initiative proposals to rework the pensions of public employees in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do the proposed ballot measures go after the pension system for current workers? Because that's where the money is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45928\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45928\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty/David McNew\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That quote, of course, is credited to the late Willie Sutton (\u003ca href=\"http://www.snopes.com/quotes/sutton.asp\">who apparently didn't actually say it\u003c/a>) when asked why he robbed banks. Its usage here isn't meant to infer nefarious motives on any of the players involved in possible reforms to public worker pensions -- rather, it's an acknowledgement that a major element in the debate is the unfunded costs of pension promises made, but not yet delivered, to tens of thousands of men and women who work in government jobs across California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two proposals unveiled yesterday (\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/71316500/CA-Pension-Reform-Initiatives\">press release\u003c/a>) by a cadre of Republican heavyweights -- former budget guru Mike Genest, pension crusader Dan Pellissier, former state GOP chairman Duf Sundheim, and former assemblymember Roger Niello -- could be called 'pension tough' and 'pension tougher.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 'pension tough,' the trip proposes a system that is modeled on the one unveiled last week by Governor Jerry Brown. His proposal (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/Twelve_Point_Pension_Reform_10.27.11.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) would place future local and state workers into a \"hybrid\" system where a smaller traditional pension would be married to a 401(k) style account. Brown also would require workers to stay on the job longer and would aim to limit their annual pension benefits to about 75% of their former salary. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where the governor simply says current workers will ultimately have to split the annual contributions to their pensions with government -- and make no mistake, that's not a small issue -- the GOP 'pension tough' initiative would force workers, for the foreseeable future, to pick up the majority of the cost of their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it's put in a summary distributed to reporters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Government employers and their employees will equally share the cost of retirement benefits, except while their pension funds are less than 80% funded using federal standards for private sector pension funds, when employees could be required to pay more for their same benefits and for a share of unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note the section about the funding status of the pension funds -- that's the hammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are both CalPERS and CalSTRS currently \u003ca href=\"http://calpensions.com/2010/01/29/calpers-calstrs-funding-levels-plunge/\">projected to be less than 80% fully funded for future retiree payment\u003c/a>s (thus creating the so-called \"unfunded liability\"), but the initiative says the funds will have to be measured by \"private sector\" accounting standards -- and those are significantly more conservative than the projections used by public sector pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not all. The initiative further says that until California'a pension systems are funded at a level above 80%, state and local government payments are capped at a smaller percentage (6%-9%) of a worker's salary. \"Government employees,\" says the handout, \"would have to pick up the remainder of normal cost until their pension fund exceeds 80% funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, government pension payments would go down... worker pension payments would go up... and given how poorly the state's pension funds score on the private sector measurement, that system would be in place for a very long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would allow unhappy current public employees the chance to switch their future retirement packages to the 401(k) hybrid plan -- which would also shrink government costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now for the 'pension tougher' initiative being filed yesterday by the GOP quartet. It offers virtually the same system to existing state and local workers, but its approach for future workers is more intense. The initiative would ban pension funds from having unfunded liabilities... and thus says that a fully \"defined contribution\" pension (that's a 401(k) style plan) would likely be the only option for state and local workers hired after its presumed passage by the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this is all presumed. Some would even say speculative... or highly speculative. The fact that the group (technically known as California Pension Reform) is filing two separate initiatives shows that they've not settled on which, if either, is more politically viable. It also shows that part of yesterday's announcement is to get some news media attention and, perhaps, shake loose some coinage from the kind of big donors needed to actually qualify an initiative for the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also presents a very interesting set of questions about the politics of pension reform over the next 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying that public employee labor unions \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/california-pension-changes-face-opposition-by-brown-labor-allies.html\">disliked Brown's pension proposal last week\u003c/a> is like saying my Duke Blue Devils \u003ca href=\"http://www.diehardthreads.com/products/go-to-hell-carolina-t-shirt\">dislike\u003c/a> the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. They consider it, it seems, a proposal from which to negotiate down to something they think is more fair to their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But placed beside the two initiatives unveiled yesterday, Brown's plan looks downright tame when it comes to current workers -- and that makes organized labor's next chess move hugely important. Already, labor faces the perception that they need to embrace Brown when it comes to pension reform, that as unhappy as they might be with the Guv's initial proposal, he's still largely on their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial attack from the leading labor group on pension issues is on the authors of these initiatives. \"Pot, meet kettle,\" tweeted Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio. \"Schwarzenegger GOPer's Pellissier & Genest, getting $100k+ pensions & airtime, to unveil #capension initiative. #hypocrisy\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line of attack will also likely include jabs at co-author Marcia Fritz, a leading conservative critic of public employee pensions whose own organization has \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/texas-billionaire-funds-california-pension-overhaul-group-12050\">stirred debate over disclosure of some of financial backers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiatives unveiled yesterday may be the big November 2012 conservative shot at pension reform everyone's been assuming would happen. If so, the debate can now begin in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update\u003c/em>: In a conference call with reporters yesterday, backers of the initiatives said they'll make a decision in January about which proposal to push for November 2012, a decision based on polling and the title and summary issued to these measures. They estimate they'll need $3 million to qualify an initiative, and admit that they've not yet lined up enough donors to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said that the increased pension payments for current workers would be phased in at no more than a 3% increase per year -- thus, they argue there would be no sticker shock for a worker who has to ultimately start contributing a lot more out of their paychecks. The group also said it feels confident that system (higher contributions for current workers, a cap on government contributions) can withstand legal challenge... though that's undoubtedly a huge issue, given how some analysts have interpreted the laws regarding promises made to workers already on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday, the leader of a prominent union-led pension committee invoked the Wisconsin union saga in his emailed response to the initiatives. Dave Low said each is \"a sloppy proposal, containing provisions that have already been determined illegal by the Supreme Court. We will continue to work with the Governor and Legislature to craft changes in the state's complex pension system rather than have extremist politically-motivated ballot box measures...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Myers is KQED's Sacaramento Bureau Chief. Follow him on the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/\">Capital Notes blog\u003c/a> or on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1320357537,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1242},"headData":{"title":"New Pension Initiatives Target Current Workers | KQED","description":"There's a temptation to dust off the quote attributed to an infamous bank robber when assessing two new and explosive initiative proposals to rework the pensions of public employees in California. Why do the proposed ballot measures go after the pension system for current workers? Because that's where the money is. That quote, of course,","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"45920 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=45920","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/03/new-pension-initiatives-target-current-workers/","disqusTitle":"New Pension Initiatives Target Current Workers","path":"/news/45920/new-pension-initiatives-target-current-workers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There's a temptation to dust off the quote attributed to an infamous bank robber when assessing two new and explosive initiative proposals to rework the pensions of public employees in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do the proposed ballot measures go after the pension system for current workers? Because that's where the money is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_45928\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45928\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty/David McNew\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That quote, of course, is credited to the late Willie Sutton (\u003ca href=\"http://www.snopes.com/quotes/sutton.asp\">who apparently didn't actually say it\u003c/a>) when asked why he robbed banks. Its usage here isn't meant to infer nefarious motives on any of the players involved in possible reforms to public worker pensions -- rather, it's an acknowledgement that a major element in the debate is the unfunded costs of pension promises made, but not yet delivered, to tens of thousands of men and women who work in government jobs across California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two proposals unveiled yesterday (\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/71316500/CA-Pension-Reform-Initiatives\">press release\u003c/a>) by a cadre of Republican heavyweights -- former budget guru Mike Genest, pension crusader Dan Pellissier, former state GOP chairman Duf Sundheim, and former assemblymember Roger Niello -- could be called 'pension tough' and 'pension tougher.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 'pension tough,' the trip proposes a system that is modeled on the one unveiled last week by Governor Jerry Brown. His proposal (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/Twelve_Point_Pension_Reform_10.27.11.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) would place future local and state workers into a \"hybrid\" system where a smaller traditional pension would be married to a 401(k) style account. Brown also would require workers to stay on the job longer and would aim to limit their annual pension benefits to about 75% of their former salary. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where the governor simply says current workers will ultimately have to split the annual contributions to their pensions with government -- and make no mistake, that's not a small issue -- the GOP 'pension tough' initiative would force workers, for the foreseeable future, to pick up the majority of the cost of their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it's put in a summary distributed to reporters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Government employers and their employees will equally share the cost of retirement benefits, except while their pension funds are less than 80% funded using federal standards for private sector pension funds, when employees could be required to pay more for their same benefits and for a share of unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note the section about the funding status of the pension funds -- that's the hammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are both CalPERS and CalSTRS currently \u003ca href=\"http://calpensions.com/2010/01/29/calpers-calstrs-funding-levels-plunge/\">projected to be less than 80% fully funded for future retiree payment\u003c/a>s (thus creating the so-called \"unfunded liability\"), but the initiative says the funds will have to be measured by \"private sector\" accounting standards -- and those are significantly more conservative than the projections used by public sector pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not all. The initiative further says that until California'a pension systems are funded at a level above 80%, state and local government payments are capped at a smaller percentage (6%-9%) of a worker's salary. \"Government employees,\" says the handout, \"would have to pick up the remainder of normal cost until their pension fund exceeds 80% funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, government pension payments would go down... worker pension payments would go up... and given how poorly the state's pension funds score on the private sector measurement, that system would be in place for a very long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative would allow unhappy current public employees the chance to switch their future retirement packages to the 401(k) hybrid plan -- which would also shrink government costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now for the 'pension tougher' initiative being filed yesterday by the GOP quartet. It offers virtually the same system to existing state and local workers, but its approach for future workers is more intense. The initiative would ban pension funds from having unfunded liabilities... and thus says that a fully \"defined contribution\" pension (that's a 401(k) style plan) would likely be the only option for state and local workers hired after its presumed passage by the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, this is all presumed. Some would even say speculative... or highly speculative. The fact that the group (technically known as California Pension Reform) is filing two separate initiatives shows that they've not settled on which, if either, is more politically viable. It also shows that part of yesterday's announcement is to get some news media attention and, perhaps, shake loose some coinage from the kind of big donors needed to actually qualify an initiative for the November 2012 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also presents a very interesting set of questions about the politics of pension reform over the next 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying that public employee labor unions \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/california-pension-changes-face-opposition-by-brown-labor-allies.html\">disliked Brown's pension proposal last week\u003c/a> is like saying my Duke Blue Devils \u003ca href=\"http://www.diehardthreads.com/products/go-to-hell-carolina-t-shirt\">dislike\u003c/a> the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. They consider it, it seems, a proposal from which to negotiate down to something they think is more fair to their employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But placed beside the two initiatives unveiled yesterday, Brown's plan looks downright tame when it comes to current workers -- and that makes organized labor's next chess move hugely important. Already, labor faces the perception that they need to embrace Brown when it comes to pension reform, that as unhappy as they might be with the Guv's initial proposal, he's still largely on their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial attack from the leading labor group on pension issues is on the authors of these initiatives. \"Pot, meet kettle,\" tweeted Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio. \"Schwarzenegger GOPer's Pellissier & Genest, getting $100k+ pensions & airtime, to unveil #capension initiative. #hypocrisy\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line of attack will also likely include jabs at co-author Marcia Fritz, a leading conservative critic of public employee pensions whose own organization has \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/texas-billionaire-funds-california-pension-overhaul-group-12050\">stirred debate over disclosure of some of financial backers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiatives unveiled yesterday may be the big November 2012 conservative shot at pension reform everyone's been assuming would happen. If so, the debate can now begin in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update\u003c/em>: In a conference call with reporters yesterday, backers of the initiatives said they'll make a decision in January about which proposal to push for November 2012, a decision based on polling and the title and summary issued to these measures. They estimate they'll need $3 million to qualify an initiative, and admit that they've not yet lined up enough donors to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said that the increased pension payments for current workers would be phased in at no more than a 3% increase per year -- thus, they argue there would be no sticker shock for a worker who has to ultimately start contributing a lot more out of their paychecks. The group also said it feels confident that system (higher contributions for current workers, a cap on government contributions) can withstand legal challenge... though that's undoubtedly a huge issue, given how some analysts have interpreted the laws regarding promises made to workers already on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also yesterday, the leader of a prominent union-led pension committee invoked the Wisconsin union saga in his emailed response to the initiatives. Dave Low said each is \"a sloppy proposal, containing provisions that have already been determined illegal by the Supreme Court. We will continue to work with the Governor and Legislature to craft changes in the state's complex pension system rather than have extremist politically-motivated ballot box measures...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Myers is KQED's Sacaramento Bureau Chief. Follow him on the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/\">Capital Notes blog\u003c/a> or on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/45920/new-pension-initiatives-target-current-workers","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_43","news_19904","news_908","news_71"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_42431":{"type":"posts","id":"news_42431","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"42431","score":null,"sort":[1318260397000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"analysis-final-decision-by-guv-on-scores-of-bills-saw-brown-paddling-both-left-and-right","title":"Analysis: Final Decision by Guv on Scores of Bills Saw Brown Paddling Both Left and Right","publishDate":1318260397,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand for Governor Jerry Brown's philosophy of governance and politics. And yet Brown's self-described \"canoe theory\" seems to have stood the test of time, with his paddling skills put to the test this past week navigating Capitol waters thick with hundreds of pieces of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the paddle has been laid down, as has the signing pen, giving the public the chance to gauge whether Brown's path was straight or wildly off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownlatest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Guv's analogy -- that in politics, like in canoeing, one must paddle a little on the left and a little on the right to successfully go in a straight line -- is one he coined early in his second term as chief executive (\u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19790720&id=Hf8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4332,2567580\">writer Richard Reeves noted in 1979 that the Guv made the comment to a YMCA group\u003c/a>). The \"canoe theory\" has followed Jerry Brown through the years -- used derisively at times (as Reeves did in 1979), while in other instances cited as evidence of his finely tuned political sensibilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the final decisions announced late Sunday night on scores of bills, Brown's \"canoe theory\" seems especially useful. The governor finds himself in a statehouse where, more than his previous two terms, powerful political interests are pushing hard on his paddle. Very few of these groups see any value in a course other than the one they've plotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cases on the 2011 bill watch, Governor Brown paddled his way left... then right... on issues that, at a macro level, don't appear all that different. One example: his decision to sign into law a ban on teens under the age of 18 from using tanning beds \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_746_bill_20110906_enrolled.html\"> and his decision to allow some girls in the same age range to get vaccinations for the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) without parental consent\u003c/a>. On one hand, the two laws suggest contradictory standards for teens to control (or not) their own lives; on the other, Brown's logic could be seen as consistent if it's believed the state must step in to help protect the health of some minors. But then that is tough to square with the bill Brown squashed \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/07/browns-veto-messages-simple-philosophical/#more-10066\">last month\u003c/a> requiring helmets for snow skiing kids -- with the governor notably saying in that veto message, \"I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considerable attention has been paid to the fate of bills either loved or hated by organized labor, and rightly so. As the strongest supporter of the Capitol's majority party, the wishes of public employee unions usually carry weight. Brown clearly paddled these last few days both toward... and then away... from his union supporters. Even so, whether those were strokes of equal strength remains up for debate. The governor vetoed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_101_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 101\u003c/a>, a bill that would have allowed in-home child care workers to join the union ranks. His veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_101_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) blamed it on the state's budget woes -- a nod to the reality that state funding of child care programs is easier to cut if it's not under the umbrella of government services protected by labor's political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown elsewhere steered towards his union allies, ostensibly in the name of good government, by signing the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/09/good-government-or-political-power-play/\">politically explosive SB 202\u003c/a>. The bill, easily a candidate for Most Notable Late Night Bloomer in the Legislature's final hours, states that initiative measures (both those in circulation now and those forever more) can only appear on November general election ballots. In his signing message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_0202_Signing_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), the governor praised the bill's effort to get initiatives in front of the most voters possible, as well as the bill's two year delay of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/aca_4_bill_20101013_chaptered.html\">legislative ballot measure\u003c/a> buffing up the state's budget reserve fund (Brown and others said the state can't afford that kind of cash stash right now, while one \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2011/10/08/jerry-brown-let-the-people-decide-sometimes-too-late/\">conservative columnist called the Guv\u003c/a> to task for no longer trusting the voters to make the right call). But political watchers know that SB 202's most short-term practical effect would be the delay of a likely June 2012 initiative to limit union political spending -- a delay that would place the measure onto the November 2012 ballot, where union-friendly Democrats will turn out in large numbers to vote for President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Republicans know this too, which is why a top GOP attorney \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes/status/122462497113505793\">filed a proposed referendum\u003c/a> to overturn SB 202 within hours of Brown's signing of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deep divisions between the labor and business communities were seen in several of Governor Brown's final paddle strokes on Sunday night. He paddled towards big business in vetoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">SB 469\u003c/a>, requiring economic impact reports before big box stores can be built (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">PDF\u003c/a>), and in his veto (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_931_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_931_bill_20110914_enrolled.html\">SB 931\u003c/a>, which would have established new rules for companies that pay workers with \"\u003ca href=\"http://calitics.com/diary/13919/payroll-debit-cards-less-choice-lower-wages\">payroll debit cards\u003c/a>.\" Both were big blows to unions. However, Brown then paddled towards the unions with the signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_22_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 22\u003c/a>, which bans employers in most circumstances from running credit reports on job applicants, and by signing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_183_bill_20110919_enrolled.html\">AB 183\u003c/a>, which bans self-serve kiosks in supermarkets from being used to buy alcohol. Both were strongly opposed by the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More careful paddling through murky waters can be found in Brown's handling of racial politics on college campuses. He signed the much-talked about plan to give \u003ca href=\"http://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17268\">undocumented students full access to financial aid\u003c/a>, but vetoed a Democratic plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_185_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">allow using race, ethnicity, or gender in admissions\u003c/a>. On the latter bill, Brown said (PDF) that he supports the idea but that the courts need to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal immigration was also in the waters Brown paddled through on two bills related to the seizure of vehicles at police checkpoints -- seizures sometimes based on the fact that the driver is unlicensed, which often means an undocumented immigrant. The governor signed into law \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 353\u003c/a>, which bans checkpoints set up for vehicle inspections. But a bill that went further -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 1389\u003c/a>, which would have tightened the rules even for sobriety checkpoints -- was vetoed (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1389_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), although backers of the bill \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">said\u003c/a> it would have addressed pretty much the same issue(s) as AB 353. \"This bill is far too restrictive on local law enforcement,\" said Brown in his veto message of AB 1389.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Brown paddled his way between sticky worker rights issues, signing into law a \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">strengthening of the state's employment leave for the birth of a child\u003c/a>, but vetoing a proposal requiring employers to give a leave of absence for the death of a worker's family member (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when handing a victory to government reform groups with the signing of a law requiring a three year state budget plan, the Guv smacked the same groups for their push to enshrine \"performance based budgeting\" into state law, writing in his veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The politically expedient course would be to sign this bill and bask in the pretense that it is some panacea for our budget woes. But the hard truth is that this bill will mandate thousands of hours of work -- at the cost of tens of millions of dollars -- with little chance of actual improvement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When the governor did paddle one way more decidedly than the other, it was toward the Democratic side of the lake. Brown signed the internationally buzzed about \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">AB 376\u003c/a>, banning most possessions and sale of shark fins. And on Sunday, he signed \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">SB 946\u003c/a>, a bill mandating health insurers cover behavioral treatment for autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Governor Brown signed many more bills than he vetoed in 2011, even though he'd \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">promised to reject \"a lot of bills\"\u003c/a> by the time the dust settled. As of late Sunday night, the governor appeared* to have signed 464 bills, vetoed 88, and allowed at least one to become law without his signature; that's a veto rate of about 16%. By comparison, a look at press releases from 2010 show former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed about 27% of that year's legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his veto rate may have been lower than that of his predecessor (who was, after all, a GOP governor dealing with largely Democratic bills), Brown nonetheless made no secret of his frustration that so many proposals were sent to him on topics that he sees as less than mission critical. \"Not every human problem needs a law,\" the governor groused to reporters in mid September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every ratified legislative proposal does ultimately need an up-or-down vote from the guy in charge, a paddle stroke one way or the other. And Jerry Brown seemed to be showing in these last few weeks of decisions that, now 40+ years into his political odyssey, he still wants to position his canoe somewhere between two river banks filled with warring politicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*The governor's office had not responded to a request for final bill tallies at the time of this posting. I'll update the numbers should they become confirmed. --JM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1318260555,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1526},"headData":{"title":"Analysis: Final Decision by Guv on Scores of Bills Saw Brown Paddling Both Left and Right | KQED","description":"It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand for Governor Jerry Brown's philosophy of governance and politics. And yet Brown's self-described "canoe theory" seems to have stood the test of time, with his paddling skills put to the test this past week navigating Capitol waters thick with hundreds of pieces of legislation. For","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"42431 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=42431","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/10/analysis-final-decision-by-guv-on-scores-of-bills-saw-brown-paddling-both-left-and-right/","disqusTitle":"Analysis: Final Decision by Guv on Scores of Bills Saw Brown Paddling Both Left and Right","path":"/news/42431/analysis-final-decision-by-guv-on-scores-of-bills-saw-brown-paddling-both-left-and-right","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand for Governor Jerry Brown's philosophy of governance and politics. And yet Brown's self-described \"canoe theory\" seems to have stood the test of time, with his paddling skills put to the test this past week navigating Capitol waters thick with hundreds of pieces of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the paddle has been laid down, as has the signing pen, giving the public the chance to gauge whether Brown's path was straight or wildly off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownlatest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Guv's analogy -- that in politics, like in canoeing, one must paddle a little on the left and a little on the right to successfully go in a straight line -- is one he coined early in his second term as chief executive (\u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19790720&id=Hf8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4332,2567580\">writer Richard Reeves noted in 1979 that the Guv made the comment to a YMCA group\u003c/a>). The \"canoe theory\" has followed Jerry Brown through the years -- used derisively at times (as Reeves did in 1979), while in other instances cited as evidence of his finely tuned political sensibilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the final decisions announced late Sunday night on scores of bills, Brown's \"canoe theory\" seems especially useful. The governor finds himself in a statehouse where, more than his previous two terms, powerful political interests are pushing hard on his paddle. Very few of these groups see any value in a course other than the one they've plotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cases on the 2011 bill watch, Governor Brown paddled his way left... then right... on issues that, at a macro level, don't appear all that different. One example: his decision to sign into law a ban on teens under the age of 18 from using tanning beds \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_746_bill_20110906_enrolled.html\"> and his decision to allow some girls in the same age range to get vaccinations for the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) without parental consent\u003c/a>. On one hand, the two laws suggest contradictory standards for teens to control (or not) their own lives; on the other, Brown's logic could be seen as consistent if it's believed the state must step in to help protect the health of some minors. But then that is tough to square with the bill Brown squashed \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/07/browns-veto-messages-simple-philosophical/#more-10066\">last month\u003c/a> requiring helmets for snow skiing kids -- with the governor notably saying in that veto message, \"I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considerable attention has been paid to the fate of bills either loved or hated by organized labor, and rightly so. As the strongest supporter of the Capitol's majority party, the wishes of public employee unions usually carry weight. Brown clearly paddled these last few days both toward... and then away... from his union supporters. Even so, whether those were strokes of equal strength remains up for debate. The governor vetoed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_101_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 101\u003c/a>, a bill that would have allowed in-home child care workers to join the union ranks. His veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_101_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) blamed it on the state's budget woes -- a nod to the reality that state funding of child care programs is easier to cut if it's not under the umbrella of government services protected by labor's political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown elsewhere steered towards his union allies, ostensibly in the name of good government, by signing the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/09/good-government-or-political-power-play/\">politically explosive SB 202\u003c/a>. The bill, easily a candidate for Most Notable Late Night Bloomer in the Legislature's final hours, states that initiative measures (both those in circulation now and those forever more) can only appear on November general election ballots. In his signing message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_0202_Signing_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), the governor praised the bill's effort to get initiatives in front of the most voters possible, as well as the bill's two year delay of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/aca_4_bill_20101013_chaptered.html\">legislative ballot measure\u003c/a> buffing up the state's budget reserve fund (Brown and others said the state can't afford that kind of cash stash right now, while one \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2011/10/08/jerry-brown-let-the-people-decide-sometimes-too-late/\">conservative columnist called the Guv\u003c/a> to task for no longer trusting the voters to make the right call). But political watchers know that SB 202's most short-term practical effect would be the delay of a likely June 2012 initiative to limit union political spending -- a delay that would place the measure onto the November 2012 ballot, where union-friendly Democrats will turn out in large numbers to vote for President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Republicans know this too, which is why a top GOP attorney \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes/status/122462497113505793\">filed a proposed referendum\u003c/a> to overturn SB 202 within hours of Brown's signing of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deep divisions between the labor and business communities were seen in several of Governor Brown's final paddle strokes on Sunday night. He paddled towards big business in vetoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">SB 469\u003c/a>, requiring economic impact reports before big box stores can be built (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">PDF\u003c/a>), and in his veto (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_931_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_931_bill_20110914_enrolled.html\">SB 931\u003c/a>, which would have established new rules for companies that pay workers with \"\u003ca href=\"http://calitics.com/diary/13919/payroll-debit-cards-less-choice-lower-wages\">payroll debit cards\u003c/a>.\" Both were big blows to unions. However, Brown then paddled towards the unions with the signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_22_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 22\u003c/a>, which bans employers in most circumstances from running credit reports on job applicants, and by signing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_183_bill_20110919_enrolled.html\">AB 183\u003c/a>, which bans self-serve kiosks in supermarkets from being used to buy alcohol. Both were strongly opposed by the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More careful paddling through murky waters can be found in Brown's handling of racial politics on college campuses. He signed the much-talked about plan to give \u003ca href=\"http://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17268\">undocumented students full access to financial aid\u003c/a>, but vetoed a Democratic plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_185_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">allow using race, ethnicity, or gender in admissions\u003c/a>. On the latter bill, Brown said (PDF) that he supports the idea but that the courts need to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal immigration was also in the waters Brown paddled through on two bills related to the seizure of vehicles at police checkpoints -- seizures sometimes based on the fact that the driver is unlicensed, which often means an undocumented immigrant. The governor signed into law \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 353\u003c/a>, which bans checkpoints set up for vehicle inspections. But a bill that went further -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 1389\u003c/a>, which would have tightened the rules even for sobriety checkpoints -- was vetoed (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1389_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), although backers of the bill \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">said\u003c/a> it would have addressed pretty much the same issue(s) as AB 353. \"This bill is far too restrictive on local law enforcement,\" said Brown in his veto message of AB 1389.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Brown paddled his way between sticky worker rights issues, signing into law a \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">strengthening of the state's employment leave for the birth of a child\u003c/a>, but vetoing a proposal requiring employers to give a leave of absence for the death of a worker's family member (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when handing a victory to government reform groups with the signing of a law requiring a three year state budget plan, the Guv smacked the same groups for their push to enshrine \"performance based budgeting\" into state law, writing in his veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The politically expedient course would be to sign this bill and bask in the pretense that it is some panacea for our budget woes. But the hard truth is that this bill will mandate thousands of hours of work -- at the cost of tens of millions of dollars -- with little chance of actual improvement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When the governor did paddle one way more decidedly than the other, it was toward the Democratic side of the lake. Brown signed the internationally buzzed about \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">AB 376\u003c/a>, banning most possessions and sale of shark fins. And on Sunday, he signed \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">SB 946\u003c/a>, a bill mandating health insurers cover behavioral treatment for autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Governor Brown signed many more bills than he vetoed in 2011, even though he'd \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">promised to reject \"a lot of bills\"\u003c/a> by the time the dust settled. As of late Sunday night, the governor appeared* to have signed 464 bills, vetoed 88, and allowed at least one to become law without his signature; that's a veto rate of about 16%. By comparison, a look at press releases from 2010 show former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed about 27% of that year's legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his veto rate may have been lower than that of his predecessor (who was, after all, a GOP governor dealing with largely Democratic bills), Brown nonetheless made no secret of his frustration that so many proposals were sent to him on topics that he sees as less than mission critical. \"Not every human problem needs a law,\" the governor groused to reporters in mid September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every ratified legislative proposal does ultimately need an up-or-down vote from the guy in charge, a paddle stroke one way or the other. And Jerry Brown seemed to be showing in these last few weeks of decisions that, now 40+ years into his political odyssey, he still wants to position his canoe somewhere between two river banks filled with warring politicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*The governor's office had not responded to a request for final bill tallies at the time of this posting. I'll update the numbers should they become confirmed. --JM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/42431/analysis-final-decision-by-guv-on-scores-of-bills-saw-brown-paddling-both-left-and-right","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_152","news_30","news_43","news_71"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_39809":{"type":"posts","id":"news_39809","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"39809","score":null,"sort":[1315860195000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"reporters-notebook-bill-o-rama","title":"Reporter's Notebook: Bill-o-Rama!","publishDate":1315860195,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California's state legislators have gone home, leaving in their wake hundreds of bills either ratified or rejected. They have also, for the time being, shut down their interparty warfare operations... which gives us a moment to open up a raft of questions about why things played out the way they did these last few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which begs a cleaning out of the Reporter's Notebook for the 2011 legislative session, and the bills that drove much of the narrative of the final days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown's Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>: No one ever thought that Governor \u003cstrong>Jerry Brown's\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17201\">jobs/tax credits proposal\u003c/a> was going to sail easily through the Legislature, including Brown. Passage, if it happened, was going to be by the slimmest of margins, and the governor's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/08/brown-touts-almost-deal-on-jobs/\">eleventh hour news conference\u003c/a>, announcing a half deal, was proof that he was trying every tactic... from public prodding to private cajoling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just minutes before the end of session, the Senate failed to line up behind the underpinning of the governor's plan, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/SB_116/20112012/\">$1 billion tightening of a corporate business tax break\u003c/a>. And while \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_116_vote_20110910_1257AM_sen_floor.html\">the vote tally\u003c/a> makes clear the dearth of Republican support -- as in zero in the upper house -- so, too, was the softness of support among Democratic senators. Even several who supported the governor lamented in floor speeches the last minute nature of the plan (both the tightening of this tax break and the opening of new tax breaks for small businesses and certain taxpayers). Two Dems abstained from voting -- state Sens. \u003cstrong>Ron Calderon\u003c/strong> (D-Montebello) and \u003cstrong>Rod Wright\u003c/strong> (D-Inglewood). And one, state Sen. \u003cstrong>Lou Correa\u003c/strong> (D-Santa Ana), actually voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may help explain why \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17206\">Brown's accusatory statement issued after the vote\u003c/a> failed to draw a partisan line. But clearly, Republican legislators and their stance on taxes have vexed the governor since he took office in January. Even when he tried to divide and conquer on the tax issue -- aligning small business owners with him and ostensibly opposed to the interests of big business -- Brown could not break through. In fact, perhaps the most interesting item reported in the wake of Friday's votes comes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-cap-taxes-20110912,0,1830445.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GeorgeSkelton+%28L.A.+Times+-+George+Skelton%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">Monday's column by Los Angeles Times George Skelton\u003c/a>, with word that Brown's failure to win over anti-tax advocate \u003cstrong>Jon Coupal\u003c/strong> may have bolstered GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupal is a veteran Capitol insider. And the quote that stands out, it seemed, is the one that offers a stark lesson in how politics works: Coupal says \"there was no relief \u003cem>for our taxpayers\u003c/em>.\" (Emphasis is mine.) His organization is all about homeowners, and Coupal didn't see any help for them. Fair to say, of course, that other taxpayers -- millions, in fact -- who do not own homes might have indeed seen relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"I'm Just A Bill, Sittin' On...\"\u003c/strong> While Brown's tax/jobs package didn't make it out of the Capitol's second floor chambers and down to his corner office, hundreds of other bills did. The governor now has until October 9 to act on those bills. Every Capitol reporter has his or her list of bills to watch; I've taken the step of putting mine in \u003ca href=\"http://kqed03.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/blogs/capitolnotes/2011/CapNotes_BillWatchList.pdf\">an online PDF\u003c/a>. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts, in either the comments section or by email, of ones I should add to the list. This is also the list I've shared with my KQED colleagues, as I may be taking a few extra days off with session now complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these involve particular debates or fights. But clearly a big thing to watch for is how Governor Brown handles bills with a very sharp labor-vs-business drama. The governor famously once said that he subscribes to the \"canoe theory\" of politics: paddle a little left, then paddle a little right, stay somewhere in the middle. But that's easier to do when canoeing in a pond, rather than the river rapids of politics circa 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A \"General Election,\" Generally Speaking\u003c/strong>: One of those bills being watched, which I wrote about in detail Friday night, is the legislation to stop putting initiatives on June statewide ballots. But political calculations aside, the crux of the issue in \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_202_bill_20110908_amended_asm_v97.html\">SB 202\u003c/a> (Hancock) is what was intended by the drafters of Article 2, Section 8(c) of the California Constitution. You don't know that section by heart, you say? Allow me...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Secretary of State shall then submit the [initiative] measure at the next general election held at least 131 days after it qualifies or at any special statewide election held prior to that general election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And therein lies the conundrum: what's a \"general election,\" and what should it be? Republicans noted in their floor debate that no less an expert than (then) Secretary of State Jerry Brown in 1971 and 1972 urged a broad reading of the question, and subsequently pushed a major political reform initiative on the June 1974 ballot en route to winning his first term as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a Friday evening \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_202_cfa_20110909_230915_sen_comm.html\">analysis from the Senate Appropriations Committee\u003c/a> offers a few other fun historical footnotes to this question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most noteworthy is a judicial musing on the legitimacy of June initiative measures by Governor Brown's most famous -- or infamous -- judicial appointment. In 1982, California Supreme Court Chief Justice \u003cstrong>Rose Bird\u003c/strong> wrote (in a \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/brosnahan-v-eu-30652\">case\u003c/a> related to an initiative's right to be on the ballot) the following: \"The constitutionality of submitting an initiative to the voters at a June primary election would appear to be an open question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird's suggestion that the courts have never weighed in may be prophetic should Brown choose to sign SB 202 into law.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1315860195,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":952},"headData":{"title":"Reporter's Notebook: Bill-o-Rama! | KQED","description":"California's state legislators have gone home, leaving in their wake hundreds of bills either ratified or rejected. They have also, for the time being, shut down their interparty warfare operations... which gives us a moment to open up a raft of questions about why things played out the way they did these last few weeks.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"39809 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=39809","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/12/reporters-notebook-bill-o-rama/","disqusTitle":"Reporter's Notebook: Bill-o-Rama!","path":"/news/39809/reporters-notebook-bill-o-rama","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's state legislators have gone home, leaving in their wake hundreds of bills either ratified or rejected. They have also, for the time being, shut down their interparty warfare operations... which gives us a moment to open up a raft of questions about why things played out the way they did these last few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which begs a cleaning out of the Reporter's Notebook for the 2011 legislative session, and the bills that drove much of the narrative of the final days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown's Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>: No one ever thought that Governor \u003cstrong>Jerry Brown's\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17201\">jobs/tax credits proposal\u003c/a> was going to sail easily through the Legislature, including Brown. Passage, if it happened, was going to be by the slimmest of margins, and the governor's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/08/brown-touts-almost-deal-on-jobs/\">eleventh hour news conference\u003c/a>, announcing a half deal, was proof that he was trying every tactic... from public prodding to private cajoling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just minutes before the end of session, the Senate failed to line up behind the underpinning of the governor's plan, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/SB_116/20112012/\">$1 billion tightening of a corporate business tax break\u003c/a>. And while \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_116_vote_20110910_1257AM_sen_floor.html\">the vote tally\u003c/a> makes clear the dearth of Republican support -- as in zero in the upper house -- so, too, was the softness of support among Democratic senators. Even several who supported the governor lamented in floor speeches the last minute nature of the plan (both the tightening of this tax break and the opening of new tax breaks for small businesses and certain taxpayers). Two Dems abstained from voting -- state Sens. \u003cstrong>Ron Calderon\u003c/strong> (D-Montebello) and \u003cstrong>Rod Wright\u003c/strong> (D-Inglewood). And one, state Sen. \u003cstrong>Lou Correa\u003c/strong> (D-Santa Ana), actually voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may help explain why \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17206\">Brown's accusatory statement issued after the vote\u003c/a> failed to draw a partisan line. But clearly, Republican legislators and their stance on taxes have vexed the governor since he took office in January. Even when he tried to divide and conquer on the tax issue -- aligning small business owners with him and ostensibly opposed to the interests of big business -- Brown could not break through. In fact, perhaps the most interesting item reported in the wake of Friday's votes comes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-cap-taxes-20110912,0,1830445.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GeorgeSkelton+%28L.A.+Times+-+George+Skelton%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">Monday's column by Los Angeles Times George Skelton\u003c/a>, with word that Brown's failure to win over anti-tax advocate \u003cstrong>Jon Coupal\u003c/strong> may have bolstered GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupal is a veteran Capitol insider. And the quote that stands out, it seemed, is the one that offers a stark lesson in how politics works: Coupal says \"there was no relief \u003cem>for our taxpayers\u003c/em>.\" (Emphasis is mine.) His organization is all about homeowners, and Coupal didn't see any help for them. Fair to say, of course, that other taxpayers -- millions, in fact -- who do not own homes might have indeed seen relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"I'm Just A Bill, Sittin' On...\"\u003c/strong> While Brown's tax/jobs package didn't make it out of the Capitol's second floor chambers and down to his corner office, hundreds of other bills did. The governor now has until October 9 to act on those bills. Every Capitol reporter has his or her list of bills to watch; I've taken the step of putting mine in \u003ca href=\"http://kqed03.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/blogs/capitolnotes/2011/CapNotes_BillWatchList.pdf\">an online PDF\u003c/a>. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts, in either the comments section or by email, of ones I should add to the list. This is also the list I've shared with my KQED colleagues, as I may be taking a few extra days off with session now complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these involve particular debates or fights. But clearly a big thing to watch for is how Governor Brown handles bills with a very sharp labor-vs-business drama. The governor famously once said that he subscribes to the \"canoe theory\" of politics: paddle a little left, then paddle a little right, stay somewhere in the middle. But that's easier to do when canoeing in a pond, rather than the river rapids of politics circa 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A \"General Election,\" Generally Speaking\u003c/strong>: One of those bills being watched, which I wrote about in detail Friday night, is the legislation to stop putting initiatives on June statewide ballots. But political calculations aside, the crux of the issue in \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_202_bill_20110908_amended_asm_v97.html\">SB 202\u003c/a> (Hancock) is what was intended by the drafters of Article 2, Section 8(c) of the California Constitution. You don't know that section by heart, you say? Allow me...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Secretary of State shall then submit the [initiative] measure at the next general election held at least 131 days after it qualifies or at any special statewide election held prior to that general election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And therein lies the conundrum: what's a \"general election,\" and what should it be? Republicans noted in their floor debate that no less an expert than (then) Secretary of State Jerry Brown in 1971 and 1972 urged a broad reading of the question, and subsequently pushed a major political reform initiative on the June 1974 ballot en route to winning his first term as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a Friday evening \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_202_cfa_20110909_230915_sen_comm.html\">analysis from the Senate Appropriations Committee\u003c/a> offers a few other fun historical footnotes to this question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most noteworthy is a judicial musing on the legitimacy of June initiative measures by Governor Brown's most famous -- or infamous -- judicial appointment. In 1982, California Supreme Court Chief Justice \u003cstrong>Rose Bird\u003c/strong> wrote (in a \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/brosnahan-v-eu-30652\">case\u003c/a> related to an initiative's right to be on the ballot) the following: \"The constitutionality of submitting an initiative to the voters at a June primary election would appear to be an open question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird's suggestion that the courts have never weighed in may be prophetic should Brown choose to sign SB 202 into law.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/39809/reporters-notebook-bill-o-rama","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_43","news_1852","news_95"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_37272":{"type":"posts","id":"news_37272","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"37272","score":null,"sort":[1313534359000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"disappointing-california-revenue-report-could-point-to-more-cuts","title":"Disappointing California Revenue Report Could Point to More Cuts","publishDate":1313534359,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California released its \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/finance_bulletins/2011/august/\">August Finance Report\u003c/a> today, indicating a $541 million shortfall from the revenue forecast for July. Our Sacramento Bureau Chief, John Myers, offers this report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nKeeping tabs on the inflow of tax revenues is not easy in California. Various assessments are based on cash in the bank, cash in the door but not deposited, and cash that arrives at various agencies. And today's news from the state Department of Finance of the July revenue target being missed by $541 million isn't good news...but may be tempered by the fact that not all cash had been counted in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report shows some sluggish economic trends around the state -- not down, but also not up where everyone hoped. And it amplifies growing concern about the budget signed by Governor Brown on June 30, a budget balanced with an expected $4 billion uptick in revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the state miss that mark -- or, more precisely, should new projections this fall show we're going to miss the mark -- the budget includes up to $2.5 billion in additional cuts, from education to public safety. Those cuts, if they happen, will be based on revenue projections made in late fall. The cuts would actually kick in sometime in January. And the Capitol is full of chatter that if that happens, Governor Brown will look for some way to intervene -- possibly even a special session to discuss tax ideas. Of course, 2012 is an election year...which makes talk of taxes that much more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1313534574,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":257},"headData":{"title":"Disappointing California Revenue Report Could Point to More Cuts | KQED","description":"California released its August Finance Report today, indicating a $541 million shortfall from the revenue forecast for July. Our Sacramento Bureau Chief, John Myers, offers this report: Keeping tabs on the inflow of tax revenues is not easy in California. Various assessments are based on cash in the bank, cash in the door but not","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"37272 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=37272","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/16/disappointing-california-revenue-report-could-point-to-more-cuts/","disqusTitle":"Disappointing California Revenue Report Could Point to More Cuts","path":"/news/37272/disappointing-california-revenue-report-could-point-to-more-cuts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California released its \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/finance_bulletins/2011/august/\">August Finance Report\u003c/a> today, indicating a $541 million shortfall from the revenue forecast for July. Our Sacramento Bureau Chief, John Myers, offers this report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nKeeping tabs on the inflow of tax revenues is not easy in California. Various assessments are based on cash in the bank, cash in the door but not deposited, and cash that arrives at various agencies. And today's news from the state Department of Finance of the July revenue target being missed by $541 million isn't good news...but may be tempered by the fact that not all cash had been counted in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report shows some sluggish economic trends around the state -- not down, but also not up where everyone hoped. And it amplifies growing concern about the budget signed by Governor Brown on June 30, a budget balanced with an expected $4 billion uptick in revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the state miss that mark -- or, more precisely, should new projections this fall show we're going to miss the mark -- the budget includes up to $2.5 billion in additional cuts, from education to public safety. Those cuts, if they happen, will be based on revenue projections made in late fall. The cuts would actually kick in sometime in January. And the Capitol is full of chatter that if that happens, Governor Brown will look for some way to intervene -- possibly even a special session to discuss tax ideas. Of course, 2012 is an election year...which makes talk of taxes that much more controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/37272/disappointing-california-revenue-report-could-point-to-more-cuts","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_43","news_71"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_35806":{"type":"posts","id":"news_35806","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"35806","score":null,"sort":[1312220994000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"redistricting-process-ends-analysis","title":"Redistricting Process Ends -- Analysis","publishDate":1312220994,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Redistricting Process Ends — Analysis | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There are two, and only two, options left at this point for the political districts in which Californians will reside for the next decade: the current maps from the state’s citizens redistricting panel or as-yet-to-exist maps drawn by judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_35807\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/redistricting.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/redistricting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redistricting\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35807\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redistricting map from Rose Institute\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that second option — judicial intervention — only will happen if opponents prevail in court, the voters step in, or a subset of the 14 commissioners change their vote on August 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, the \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> ended months of debate, discussion, and drawing with conditional approval of district lines for the Legislature, Congress, and the state Board of Equalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 17 days, the commission will reconvene to formally certify the maps, the final step of the process laid out by voter-approved initiatives in \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_11_(2008)\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_11_(2008)\">2010\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commission is confident that these maps will prevail will against any and all legal challenges,” said commissioner Connie Galambos Malloy. “We also believe that the new districts will be upheld in the court of public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two tests are, of course, huge. Already, political and interest group forces are mulling over challenges to the independently drawn maps — the first r\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/?s=redistricting\">edistricting\u003c/a> process in California history to be conducted largely in public with statewide hearings and thousands of citizen suggestions. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve got a few different options for viewing the maps. The commission’s own web-based \u003ca href=\"http://swdb.berkeley.edu/gis/gis2011/\">map syste\u003c/a>m allows you to see your own state and congressional district by typing in an address; it also uses Google’s satellite maps to allow you to zoom in to see how the lines cross streets, bridges, and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For political junkies, there are two very good sites that offer partisan, ethnic, and incumbent information: the Democratic consulting firm of \u003ca href=\"http://redistrictingpartners.com/\">Redistricting Partners\u003c/a> and the GOP firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpimaps.com/2011/07/map-analysis-posted-for-final-crc-assembly-senate-and-congressional-plans/\">Meridian Pacific\u003c/a>. These are the guys most reporters have turned to for help in understanding the political implications, given that the commission did not use incumbent and political party information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the website of the \u003ca href=\"http://134.173.236.112/DraftPlans/\">Rose Institute\u003c/a> at Claremont McKenna College, whose map allows you to toggle between draft maps, the existing political maps (drawn in 2001), and the maps submitted by several interest groups.\u003cbr>\nThe Challenges: Constitutional, Legal\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drawing of 177 distinct districts was bound to spark criticism, as the decisions have the potential to shape California politics for the next decade. But the commissioners, for the most part, engaged in a pretty cordial and methodical manner. Several said on Friday that they saw their work as a public service, and not as a political exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean everyone always agreed. Last Sunday night, the citizen commissioners fought over the most contentious issues of the months long saga: how to balance competing community (and possibly legal) interests, and whether specific objections would compel individual commissioners to reject the entire set of maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No law has played a more prominent role than the federal \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act\">Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965\u003c/a>, an historic yet complex set of rules about the rights of minority voters. It’s a safe assumption that the crux of any legal challenge to the commission’s maps will be based on VRA issues. At first, the panel focused its attention on the portion of the VRA (Section 5) that requires federal approval of redistricting plans for areas deemed to need additional oversight of the rights of minority voters. That applies to four counties in California: Kings, Merced, Monterey, and Yuba. The maps for those counties often led to districts for adjacent areas that were partly or completely dictated by the choices made to satisfy the federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps more vexing for the commission was drawing districts that comply with \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_2/about_sec2.php\">Section 2 of the VRA, which prohibits diluting the rights of minority voters in a particular community. This is usually interpreted as drawing districts where minority voters are in high enough concentrations to be influential, but not so high as to have been unfairly “\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Packing_and_cracking\">packed\u003c/a>” into a single district and thus denied the chance to influence more than one political contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission grappled with how many Section 2 congressional and legislative districts it can draw… or should draw. And that was the focus of the emotional Sunday meeting of the commission, where the debate focused on congressional districts and the Latino and African American populations of Los Angeles County. Latino rights groups have consistently pushed the commissioners to draw more Latino VRA districts (also known as “majority minority” districts), and offered their own mapping proposals that did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some cases, commissioners seemed to think that could come at the expense of African Americans, perhaps packing too many into too few districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this does is reduce the areas where African American candidates can be elected [to Congress],” said commissioner Andre Parvenu as consideration was given to an LA reconfiguration that split up a very long coastal district — which thus impacted LA ethnic communities to its east. Parvenu, an African American who said he marched in Virginia as a child in support of the VRA, then said, “I will not vote for this map, that’s the bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the position of Parvenu and other commissioners prevailed: the LA districts were not re-reconfigured. Others then suggested the VRA standard — which largely, in California, is thought of as a way of increasing Latino political power — was being applied inconsistently across the state. And at Friday’s hearing to vote on the maps, that was the reason given by the two dissenting commissioners on the congressional maps: Republicans Jodi Filkins-Webber and Michael Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that this commission had followed the constitutional priorities consistently on the Assembly and the Senate” but not on Congress, said Filkins Webber after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino groups are already raising \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/28/3802366/commission-final-draft-maps-would.html\">concerns\u003c/a> about the maps. But whether that’s just grumbling… or legally actionable… remains unclear. “It’s very plain to see that the commission could have done better,” said Steven Ochoa of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Ochoa says the federal law mandates that if a majority-minority can be drawn, it must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the commission drew 29 Latino and one Asian “Section 2 districts,” spread out among the Legislature and Congress. Whether that’s enough is a question that can only be answered in court.\u003cbr>\nPolitical Losers of the Week (Year?): Incumbents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my radio story Friday morning, I noted that the most obvious macro change in this process has been the threat to incumbents. In Congress alone, 11 districts feature two (or three) veteran pols now bunking together. In some cases, members have already seen the writing on the wall and have \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56571.html\">stepped aside\u003c/a>; in others, members are packing their bags and \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110729/A_NEWS/107290324/-1/NEWSMAP\">moving\u003c/a> to an open district that they think they can win. And in others… well… these could be some real showdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few have been talked about as much as the rhyming rumble between Democratic congressmen Howard Berman and Brad Sherman in the San Fernando Valley. In the Bay Area, a quandary for loyal Dems, too, as Rep. Zoe Lofgren has been drawn into a district with Rep. Mike Honda. And Republicans face challenges, too; longtime Rep. Elton Gallegly has seen his SoCal home drawn into a district with fellow GOP Rep. Buck McKeon. In San Diego, Rep. Brian Bilbray and Rep. Darrell Issa are now Republican roomies. And those are only the headliners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also a large number of vacant seats — districts in both the Legislature and Congress featuring no incumbent. The congressional ones will get snapped up pretty fast (U-Haul truck, Congressman?)… while the legislative districts will force some new recruitment efforts, especially by Democrats in the Central Valley, to find good candidates. In the Assembly, there look to be as many as 11 districts that are either tossups or slight “leaners,” and these may be the “competitive” seats everyone hoped for through independent redistricting (5 are in this category in the state Senate, 8 for Congress).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, everyone takes a breath. The next two weeks will be entertaining, with editorial pages and interest groups either lauding or lamenting what’s been drawn by the citizens panel. When asked whether any of them would change their vote between now and August 15 in the face of serious criticism, no commissioner stepped forward on Friday. If that’s the case, these are the official maps… until an outside group, through either a successful lawsuit or a referendum, says otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below:My radio story from Friday morning’s edition of The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1685492865,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1492},"headData":{"title":"Redistricting Process Ends -- Analysis | KQED","description":"There are two, and only two, options left at this point for the political districts in which Californians will reside for the next decade: the current maps from the state's citizens redistricting panel or as-yet-to-exist maps drawn by judges. And that second option -- judicial intervention -- only will happen if opponents prevail in court,","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/35806/redistricting-process-ends-analysis","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are two, and only two, options left at this point for the political districts in which Californians will reside for the next decade: the current maps from the state’s citizens redistricting panel or as-yet-to-exist maps drawn by judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_35807\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/redistricting.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/redistricting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redistricting\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35807\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redistricting map from Rose Institute\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that second option — judicial intervention — only will happen if opponents prevail in court, the voters step in, or a subset of the 14 commissioners change their vote on August 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, the \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\">California Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a> ended months of debate, discussion, and drawing with conditional approval of district lines for the Legislature, Congress, and the state Board of Equalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 17 days, the commission will reconvene to formally certify the maps, the final step of the process laid out by voter-approved initiatives in \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_11_(2008)\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_11_(2008)\">2010\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commission is confident that these maps will prevail will against any and all legal challenges,” said commissioner Connie Galambos Malloy. “We also believe that the new districts will be upheld in the court of public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two tests are, of course, huge. Already, political and interest group forces are mulling over challenges to the independently drawn maps — the first r\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/?s=redistricting\">edistricting\u003c/a> process in California history to be conducted largely in public with statewide hearings and thousands of citizen suggestions. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve got a few different options for viewing the maps. The commission’s own web-based \u003ca href=\"http://swdb.berkeley.edu/gis/gis2011/\">map syste\u003c/a>m allows you to see your own state and congressional district by typing in an address; it also uses Google’s satellite maps to allow you to zoom in to see how the lines cross streets, bridges, and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For political junkies, there are two very good sites that offer partisan, ethnic, and incumbent information: the Democratic consulting firm of \u003ca href=\"http://redistrictingpartners.com/\">Redistricting Partners\u003c/a> and the GOP firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpimaps.com/2011/07/map-analysis-posted-for-final-crc-assembly-senate-and-congressional-plans/\">Meridian Pacific\u003c/a>. These are the guys most reporters have turned to for help in understanding the political implications, given that the commission did not use incumbent and political party information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the website of the \u003ca href=\"http://134.173.236.112/DraftPlans/\">Rose Institute\u003c/a> at Claremont McKenna College, whose map allows you to toggle between draft maps, the existing political maps (drawn in 2001), and the maps submitted by several interest groups.\u003cbr>\nThe Challenges: Constitutional, Legal\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drawing of 177 distinct districts was bound to spark criticism, as the decisions have the potential to shape California politics for the next decade. But the commissioners, for the most part, engaged in a pretty cordial and methodical manner. Several said on Friday that they saw their work as a public service, and not as a political exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean everyone always agreed. Last Sunday night, the citizen commissioners fought over the most contentious issues of the months long saga: how to balance competing community (and possibly legal) interests, and whether specific objections would compel individual commissioners to reject the entire set of maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No law has played a more prominent role than the federal \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act\">Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965\u003c/a>, an historic yet complex set of rules about the rights of minority voters. It’s a safe assumption that the crux of any legal challenge to the commission’s maps will be based on VRA issues. At first, the panel focused its attention on the portion of the VRA (Section 5) that requires federal approval of redistricting plans for areas deemed to need additional oversight of the rights of minority voters. That applies to four counties in California: Kings, Merced, Monterey, and Yuba. The maps for those counties often led to districts for adjacent areas that were partly or completely dictated by the choices made to satisfy the federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps more vexing for the commission was drawing districts that comply with \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_2/about_sec2.php\">Section 2 of the VRA, which prohibits diluting the rights of minority voters in a particular community. This is usually interpreted as drawing districts where minority voters are in high enough concentrations to be influential, but not so high as to have been unfairly “\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Packing_and_cracking\">packed\u003c/a>” into a single district and thus denied the chance to influence more than one political contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission grappled with how many Section 2 congressional and legislative districts it can draw… or should draw. And that was the focus of the emotional Sunday meeting of the commission, where the debate focused on congressional districts and the Latino and African American populations of Los Angeles County. Latino rights groups have consistently pushed the commissioners to draw more Latino VRA districts (also known as “majority minority” districts), and offered their own mapping proposals that did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some cases, commissioners seemed to think that could come at the expense of African Americans, perhaps packing too many into too few districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this does is reduce the areas where African American candidates can be elected [to Congress],” said commissioner Andre Parvenu as consideration was given to an LA reconfiguration that split up a very long coastal district — which thus impacted LA ethnic communities to its east. Parvenu, an African American who said he marched in Virginia as a child in support of the VRA, then said, “I will not vote for this map, that’s the bottom line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the position of Parvenu and other commissioners prevailed: the LA districts were not re-reconfigured. Others then suggested the VRA standard — which largely, in California, is thought of as a way of increasing Latino political power — was being applied inconsistently across the state. And at Friday’s hearing to vote on the maps, that was the reason given by the two dissenting commissioners on the congressional maps: Republicans Jodi Filkins-Webber and Michael Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that this commission had followed the constitutional priorities consistently on the Assembly and the Senate” but not on Congress, said Filkins Webber after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino groups are already raising \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/28/3802366/commission-final-draft-maps-would.html\">concerns\u003c/a> about the maps. But whether that’s just grumbling… or legally actionable… remains unclear. “It’s very plain to see that the commission could have done better,” said Steven Ochoa of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Ochoa says the federal law mandates that if a majority-minority can be drawn, it must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the commission drew 29 Latino and one Asian “Section 2 districts,” spread out among the Legislature and Congress. Whether that’s enough is a question that can only be answered in court.\u003cbr>\nPolitical Losers of the Week (Year?): Incumbents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my radio story Friday morning, I noted that the most obvious macro change in this process has been the threat to incumbents. In Congress alone, 11 districts feature two (or three) veteran pols now bunking together. In some cases, members have already seen the writing on the wall and have \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56571.html\">stepped aside\u003c/a>; in others, members are packing their bags and \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110729/A_NEWS/107290324/-1/NEWSMAP\">moving\u003c/a> to an open district that they think they can win. And in others… well… these could be some real showdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few have been talked about as much as the rhyming rumble between Democratic congressmen Howard Berman and Brad Sherman in the San Fernando Valley. In the Bay Area, a quandary for loyal Dems, too, as Rep. Zoe Lofgren has been drawn into a district with Rep. Mike Honda. And Republicans face challenges, too; longtime Rep. Elton Gallegly has seen his SoCal home drawn into a district with fellow GOP Rep. Buck McKeon. In San Diego, Rep. Brian Bilbray and Rep. Darrell Issa are now Republican roomies. And those are only the headliners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also a large number of vacant seats — districts in both the Legislature and Congress featuring no incumbent. The congressional ones will get snapped up pretty fast (U-Haul truck, Congressman?)… while the legislative districts will force some new recruitment efforts, especially by Democrats in the Central Valley, to find good candidates. In the Assembly, there look to be as many as 11 districts that are either tossups or slight “leaners,” and these may be the “competitive” seats everyone hoped for through independent redistricting (5 are in this category in the state Senate, 8 for Congress).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, everyone takes a breath. The next two weeks will be entertaining, with editorial pages and interest groups either lauding or lamenting what’s been drawn by the citizens panel. When asked whether any of them would change their vote between now and August 15 in the face of serious criticism, no commissioner stepped forward on Friday. If that’s the case, these are the official maps… until an outside group, through either a successful lawsuit or a referendum, says otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below:My radio story from Friday morning’s edition of The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/35806/redistricting-process-ends-analysis","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_332","news_2582","news_43"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_35066":{"type":"posts","id":"news_35066","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"35066","score":null,"sort":[1311698667000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amazon-sales-tax-may-be-put-on-hold-if-referendum-submitted-by-company-qualifies","title":"Amazon Sales Tax May Be Put on Hold If Referendum Submitted by Company Qualifies","publishDate":1311698667,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"amazonlogo\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35134\">\u003c/a>Legislative lawyers believe that if a referendum on the new law requiring sales tax collection by online retailers qualifies for the ballot, the law will have to be put on hold until the voters have their say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that opinion holds, it may raise the stakes for a budget written with an expectation of at least $200 million from the law in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of the opinion that the operation of the statute would be suspended during that time period,\" writes attorneys for the office of the Legislative Counsel in a letter dated Friday to state Sen. Joel Anderson (R-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson apparently asked for a legal opinion on whether the law, contained in \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=abx1_28&sess=CUR&house=B&author=blumenfield\">ABx 28\u003c/a>, would be operable should the newly launched campaign to overturn it via referendum gather enough voter signatures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://kqed03.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/blogs/capitolnotes/2011/ABx28.pdf\">six page letter (PDF)\u003c/a> tackles an issue raised a few times before, and several times since, voters approved Proposition 25 in November: whether a majority vote budget and its related \"trailer\" bills are subject to referendum. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/loren-kaye/7693-referendum-rip\">suggested\u003c/a> that the budget and any related bill that includes an \"appropriation\" could, under Prop 25, be immune from the referendum. In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. However, if the referendum were certified...the statute immediately would be stayed and would remain stayed until an election is held for the referendum measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note that the passage above does not allow Amazon and other online retailers to thumb their noses at the new state law in the interim, though they've clearly seemed to say that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388003,00.asp\">what they'll do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the state Board of Equalization is scheduled to discuss implementation of the new law at a meeting here in Sacramento tomorrow morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final, and fascinating, point: at the same time the Amazon tax referendum is on the streets for signatures, a bill awaits action by Governor Jerry Brown to cancel the February 2012 presidential primary, moving the race for the White House back to the Golden State's regularly scheduled primary in June. That would mean, if the Amazon tax referendum qualifies and this legal opinion is accurate, the law would be suspended for more than eight months until the June election... thus costing the state budget money on which it's counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who argued the cancellation of the February primary would save the state money, may now not be so thrilled. Meantime, one of the opponents of nixing the February election \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/07/california-presidential-primary-june-2012-assembly-bill-80.html\">quoted during floor debate\u003c/a> as saying so: Sen. Anderson, who requested the legal opinion and now may be happy his position didn't carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow John Myers on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a> or at \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1311699616,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":726},"headData":{"title":"Amazon Sales Tax May Be Put on Hold If Referendum Submitted by Company Qualifies | KQED","description":"Legislative lawyers believe that if a referendum on the new law requiring sales tax collection by online retailers qualifies for the ballot, the law will have to be put on hold until the voters have their say. If that opinion holds, it may raise the stakes for a budget written with an expectation of at","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"35066 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=35066","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/26/amazon-sales-tax-may-be-put-on-hold-if-referendum-submitted-by-company-qualifies/","disqusTitle":"Amazon Sales Tax May Be Put on Hold If Referendum Submitted by Company Qualifies","path":"/news/35066/amazon-sales-tax-may-be-put-on-hold-if-referendum-submitted-by-company-qualifies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"amazonlogo\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35134\">\u003c/a>Legislative lawyers believe that if a referendum on the new law requiring sales tax collection by online retailers qualifies for the ballot, the law will have to be put on hold until the voters have their say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that opinion holds, it may raise the stakes for a budget written with an expectation of at least $200 million from the law in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of the opinion that the operation of the statute would be suspended during that time period,\" writes attorneys for the office of the Legislative Counsel in a letter dated Friday to state Sen. Joel Anderson (R-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson apparently asked for a legal opinion on whether the law, contained in \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=abx1_28&sess=CUR&house=B&author=blumenfield\">ABx 28\u003c/a>, would be operable should the newly launched campaign to overturn it via referendum gather enough voter signatures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://kqed03.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/blogs/capitolnotes/2011/ABx28.pdf\">six page letter (PDF)\u003c/a> tackles an issue raised a few times before, and several times since, voters approved Proposition 25 in November: whether a majority vote budget and its related \"trailer\" bills are subject to referendum. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/loren-kaye/7693-referendum-rip\">suggested\u003c/a> that the budget and any related bill that includes an \"appropriation\" could, under Prop 25, be immune from the referendum. In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. However, if the referendum were certified...the statute immediately would be stayed and would remain stayed until an election is held for the referendum measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note that the passage above does not allow Amazon and other online retailers to thumb their noses at the new state law in the interim, though they've clearly seemed to say that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388003,00.asp\">what they'll do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the state Board of Equalization is scheduled to discuss implementation of the new law at a meeting here in Sacramento tomorrow morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final, and fascinating, point: at the same time the Amazon tax referendum is on the streets for signatures, a bill awaits action by Governor Jerry Brown to cancel the February 2012 presidential primary, moving the race for the White House back to the Golden State's regularly scheduled primary in June. That would mean, if the Amazon tax referendum qualifies and this legal opinion is accurate, the law would be suspended for more than eight months until the June election... thus costing the state budget money on which it's counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who argued the cancellation of the February primary would save the state money, may now not be so thrilled. Meantime, one of the opponents of nixing the February election \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/07/california-presidential-primary-june-2012-assembly-bill-80.html\">quoted during floor debate\u003c/a> as saying so: Sen. Anderson, who requested the legal opinion and now may be happy his position didn't carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow John Myers on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a> or at \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/35066/amazon-sales-tax-may-be-put-on-hold-if-referendum-submitted-by-company-qualifies","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_248"],"tags":["news_1611","news_43","news_1612","news_71","news_423"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_34024":{"type":"posts","id":"news_34024","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"34024","score":null,"sort":[1310687119000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"audio-democratic-treasurer-bill-lockyer-on-why-he-voted-for-arnold-schwarzennegger","title":"Audio: Democratic Treasurer Bill Lockyer on Why He Voted for Arnold Schwarzennegger","publishDate":1310687119,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Recall the recall for a moment, if you would. You know, the 2003 \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_recall_election,_2003\">special election \u003c/a> that asked voters two questions: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Shall Gray Davis be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) Candidates to succeed Gray Davis as Governor if he is recalled: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which was followed by a list of candidates that included Arnold Schwarzennegger, who managed to fend off the likes of Larry Flynt, Arianna Huffington, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/tshirtstop.7122475\">Gary Coleman\u003c/a>, among the list of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_ballot_for_CA_recall.png\">134 other hopefuls\u003c/a>, to take the prize. (If you can call winning the governorship of this state a prize.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyhoo, after the circus left town, then State Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, caused a stir when he publicly stated at an election post-mortem that he had voted against the recall on the first question, but had voted for Arnold on the second. Schwarzennegger represented \"hope, change, reform, opportunity, upbeat problem solving,\" Lockyer was quoted as saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday at the Sacramento Press Club, our bureau chief John Myers asked an eight-years-later follow-up question to Lockyer's statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the post-mortem after the recall campaign, you shocked a few people. You said you voted against the recall but you voted for Schwarzennegger. In retrospect, (do) you stick with that vote, (or) do you regret that vote? \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockyer began his answer with this: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I sure shouldn't have said it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the rest of his answer below; an edited transcript follows: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/lockyeronarnold.mp3|titles=lockyeronarnold]\u003cstrong>Bill Lockyer on why he voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The problem was the alternative. You remember the list of (100 or whatever)that number was of people running for gov. id idn't see a single person on tha tlist who could competently lead and govern the state of calif. that was praticularly true of some relatively well-known people on that list. And so for me it was kind of a choice of, like voters at the time, we're gambling, we're taking a risk that this new fresh voice is really going to bring people together and wer'e going to have a less partisan opportunity to make advancements in the state. Well , we were all wrong about wehether we oucld get that. we didn't get that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly the Republicans would be the ones that would be grumpy. The Democrats, it's sort of a mixed bag, some like it, some don't. They liked the environment or they didn't like labor or budget. So...it was the choice at the time, and I guess I should have just abstained entirely and said none of them, just stick with Gray.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1310754110,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":457},"headData":{"title":"Audio: Democratic Treasurer Bill Lockyer on Why He Voted for Arnold Schwarzennegger | KQED","description":"Recall the recall for a moment, if you would. You know, the 2003 special election that asked voters two questions: 1) Shall Gray Davis be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor? 2) Candidates to succeed Gray Davis as Governor if he is recalled: Which was followed by a list of candidates that included Arnold","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"34024 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=34024","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/14/audio-democratic-treasurer-bill-lockyer-on-why-he-voted-for-arnold-schwarzennegger/","disqusTitle":"Audio: Democratic Treasurer Bill Lockyer on Why He Voted for Arnold Schwarzennegger","path":"/news/34024/audio-democratic-treasurer-bill-lockyer-on-why-he-voted-for-arnold-schwarzennegger","audioUrl":"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/files/2011/07/lockyeronarnold.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Recall the recall for a moment, if you would. You know, the 2003 \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_recall_election,_2003\">special election \u003c/a> that asked voters two questions: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Shall Gray Davis be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) Candidates to succeed Gray Davis as Governor if he is recalled: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which was followed by a list of candidates that included Arnold Schwarzennegger, who managed to fend off the likes of Larry Flynt, Arianna Huffington, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafepress.com/tshirtstop.7122475\">Gary Coleman\u003c/a>, among the list of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_ballot_for_CA_recall.png\">134 other hopefuls\u003c/a>, to take the prize. (If you can call winning the governorship of this state a prize.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyhoo, after the circus left town, then State Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, caused a stir when he publicly stated at an election post-mortem that he had voted against the recall on the first question, but had voted for Arnold on the second. Schwarzennegger represented \"hope, change, reform, opportunity, upbeat problem solving,\" Lockyer was quoted as saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday at the Sacramento Press Club, our bureau chief John Myers asked an eight-years-later follow-up question to Lockyer's statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the post-mortem after the recall campaign, you shocked a few people. You said you voted against the recall but you voted for Schwarzennegger. 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