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Katy Grimes: The Legislative Analyst’s Office likes Governor Jerry Brown’s $26.4 billion proposed budget — $12. 5 billion in spending cuts, $14 billion in new taxes — and they don’t. The overall feel of the Overview of the Governor’s 2011-2012
Read MorePelican Bay Gallows Humor
Anthony Pignataro: It must be difficult for state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation press office to write snappy, crisp news releases about violence perpetrated on prison guards. I was thinking about this last night while reading this statement about how
Read MoreBrown Impounds Cell Phones!
Anthony Pignataro: Within hours of the news breaking that Verizon will begin selling Apple’s iPhones, California Governor Jerry Brown issued Executive Order B-1-11, forcing 48,000 state employees to turn in their work-provided cellular phones. “It is difficult for me to
Read MoreHealth Cuts Unacceptable To Many
Katy Grimes: “Right now! Can’t wait! Single-payer for our state!” was the rather uncreative rally cry at a well-organized protest immediately following Governor Jerry Brown’s budget proposal press conference. The ink isn’t even dry on Brown’s budget proposal, and already
Read MoreBrown Wants State Worker Pay Cut
Anthony Pignataro: According to this press release just sent out by the Office of Governor Jerry Brown, the budget Brown will propose today will include $12.5 billion in spending cuts, an “eight to 10 percent cut in take-home pay for
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They're Coming for Prop. 13
John Seiler: You know it would happen. They’re coming for Prop. 13, the 1978 tax-cut measure. Having overspent for decades, the California government of parasites has run up a $28 billion deficit. Jerry Brown’s new budget is expected to include
Read MoreStuzman on Whitman's Loss
John Seiler: I’ve known Rob Stutzman about 15 years, since he was press secretary to Attorney General Dan Lungren back in the 1990s. He’s one of the most knowledgeable people about California politics. He was with Arnold in the early
Read MoreBee Editorial Ignores Honig's Appointment
Katy Grimes: Friday, The Sacramento Bee went out on a limb lauding Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent political appointments, specifically patting Brown on the back for naming Democrat John Laird , amongst others, as Natural Resources Secretary. Laird, was just rejected
Read MoreMonday Is Budget Day
Steven Greenhut: The new governor will introduce his budget at 11 am on Monday. Expect it to be austere and used as an argument for higher taxes.
Read MoreHigh-Speed Revolving Door
Anthony Pignataro: You don’t have to watch politics very long before you see that top people move more or less freely from the public sector — where they develop much expertise at taxpayer expense — to the private sector —
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