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Debate: Kashkari mocks focus on plastic bags, football practice limits
Questioner asks Kashkari if he would oppose CA’s continued implementation of Obamacare if elected. He says he lost his own policy cuz of ACA and notes how the law creates incentive for employers to stop offering full-time jobs. Brown links
Read MoreDebate: Brown offers up whopper, claims he’s stopped pension spiking
Questioner asks how state can pay for bullet train given House opposition to any further federal funding. Brown ducks question with broad defense of project. “This train makes a lot of sense,” it’s not “crazy,” as Kashkari says. Kashkari: “He’s
Read MoreDebate: Brown defends realignment as ‘success’
Questioner asks Kashkari about his key role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program under Presidents Bush and Obama. He strongly defends his record, says TARP made all money back, and notes Brown praised TARP’s effects. Brown: “When you hand out
Read MoreDebate: Kashkari says Brown should be ashamed of Vergara appeal
In response to a question about AB 32 driving up gasoline prices next year, Brown ducks and talks broadly about CA’s role as a trendsetter and the need to fight climate change. Moderator interrupts and tries to get him to
Read MoreDebate: Kashkari notes Obama administration knocks state tunnel plan
In response to first question about Brown’s big lead in polls, Kashkari brushes it off and attacks Brown’s love of the bullet train and says water and education should be the priority instead. Brown sticks to the California comeback theme.
Read MoreDebate: Brown lays ‘CA comeback’ meme on thick early
In Jerry Brown’s opening statement, he depicts a happy California that has largely left behind the problems he inherited in 2010. He says California has recovered all the jobs it has lost during the Great Recession, but doesn’t mention these
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L.A. restaurants make plain there’s no such thing as a free lunch
Is it a passive-aggressive way for independent businesses to let customers know about the cost of government regulation? Or just a trick that allows those businesses to charge more than they normally would without prompting grousing from their customers? Whatever
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CA Democrats’ ritual: Passing doomed gun laws to media cheers
House Republicans face fire from many quarters for the dozens of times they have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the critics sometimes aren’t just the usual partisan soldiers. Plenty of editorial boards are incensed by this tactic. They say
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Teacher compensation database undercuts CTA claims
The Transparency California group’s database of school district compensation undercuts teacher unions’ claims that teacher pay scales are ungenerous and capped at unfairly low levels. When very generous health benefits and good pension benefits are factored in, that doesn’t look
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Legislature should have heeded Brit regulators on plastic bags
Dubious bills often get passed on the final night of the state legislative session, and 2014 was no exception: A measure to make California the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags. SB270 passed despite fierce opposition
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