Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’

Assembly members objecting to corruption exemption in AB 173
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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May 16, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- A corruption exemption remains in Assembly Bill 173, by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego. But calls I made to all the members of the Accountability and Administrative Review committee, which had reviewed the bill, indicated resistance by...

Gov. Brown’s May budget revision balances only by ignoring unfunded liabilities
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Balancing the economic realities of the state budget with political influences surely is a challenging task. Unfortunately, in California it is a task which few administrations have managed in recent state history. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown an...

Assembly budget secrecy ahead; 37 empty budget bills passed
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Another secretive budget is in the near future as Democrats passed 37 empty budget "spot bills" Monday. It was business as usual in the Assembly. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Los Angeles, the author of AB 74, the budget bills, and Chairman of the...

Bill would strip corruption protections from university employees
Monday, May 13th, 2013
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May 13, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Public contracts should always be subjected to stiff scrutiny. Without public scrutiny and oversight, spending other people's money is too easy. But a new Assembly bill would not only increase the amount of money California's public universities...

Legislature and Republicans
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
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Republican and Latinos agree on education reforms
Monday, May 6th, 2013

May 6, 2013 By Katy Grimes Politics makes strange bedfellows. This we know to be true, but Latinos and Republicans should not be. Many demographers predict Republicans will steadily pick up Latino voters as Latino assimilation increases, and Latinos succeed economically. But one area is ...

Legislature guts another transparency bill
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

May 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- In a move which disregarded the very issue in the bill, Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 killed an important transparency bill Tuesday before it was even heard. Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, R- Modesto, hadn’t even testified on ACA 4, which...

Pattern developing in reform bill killings
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

May 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes It's the first day of May. If you haven't noticed, the California Democratic Supermajority is killing all reform efforts. And the targets are not just Republican bills. Just yesterday, the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality killed  a bill which would have ...

Has Dem supermajority ushered in incivility?
Thursday, April 25th, 2013

April 25, 2013 By Katy Grimes Since the Democratic supermajority was ushered in after the 2012 elections, I've observed an interesting shift at the Capitol. Democratic leaders promised they would "restrain" themselves on the ability to increase taxes. That hasn't worked out so well given al...

CA global warming is big business for government
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

April 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes Just when Californians thought implementation of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act couldn’t get any worse, it is. AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and SB 375, the sustainable communities companion bill enacted in 2008, bo...