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Newsom: Conservatives Are Just Like Hitler

July 1, 2024 8:00 amJuly 1, 2024 8:01 am

Everyone knows the ancient joke about the two exhausted kids walking through a sun-blasted and waterless land. Sunburned and still miles from their destination, they come upon an immense pile of animal manure blocking their path. The boys stop for...

It’s In the Air We Breathe: CARB and Racial Equity

July 1, 2024 6:47 amJuly 1, 2024 6:47 am

Rabbit hole. Wormhole. Rat hole. When trying to digest various government racial equity plans, these are three frustrating words that come up rather too often. Click on one government thing and it takes you to another and to another and...

Language Needed for a Prop. 98 Suspension Bill

July 1, 2024 6:29 amJuly 1, 2024 6:29 am

On occasion, the California Legislature and Governor decide to suspend the voter-approved minimum school funding guarantee, Prop. 98, when the state’s finances require it. Under Prop. 98, the state Constitution requires the state to apply a minimum amount of funding...

Legislature to Designate November Ballot Measures

June 30, 2024 9:27 pmJune 30, 2024 9:28 pm

At almost 7pm on Sunday, June 30, 2024, Assembly Bill 440 was amended to make a number of changes. Initially, Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin and Senator Catherine Blakespear became joint authors of the measure. In addition, AB 440 would do the...

California Democrats Scheming on Last Minute Alternative to Prop. 47 Reform Initiative

June 30, 2024 8:08 pmJune 30, 2024 8:10 pm

Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water, California Democrats are now calling session for late night Wednesday, July 3rd to enact an alternative to the Proposition 47 reform initiative. Capitol Staffers received that message...

The Law Allowing Measures to Be Withdrawn from the Ballot

June 30, 2024 10:42 amJune 30, 2024 10:42 am

In the 2014 California Legislative Session, then-State Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) authored Senate Bill 1253, which became Chapter 697 when the Governor signed the bill on September 27. SB 1253 amended California Elections Code Sections 9, 101, 9002, 9004, 9005,...

AB 247 – Proposed School Facilities Bond for Statewide Ballot

June 30, 2024 10:36 amJune 30, 2024 10:36 am

Late night on June 29, final amendments were made to Assembly Bill 247 to place an education facilities bond on the November 5, 2024 General Election Ballot. AB 247 is jointly authored by 3 Assembly Members and 2 Senators, and...