Thanks, Kamala! A New Time Standard for Ballot Initiative Review!
Isn’t it glorious when our elected officials move faster than we expect in the name of innovation and efficiency? Yes, glorious and too rare. So let’s celebrate the wizardry of Attorney General Kamala Harris. Before last week, ballot initiative sponsors had to wait nearly six weeks after filing before they could circulate petitions. That time […]
Paying for the Tax Measure Qualification
Governor Jerry Brown completed a deal with the California Federation of Teachers and the Courage Campaign to launch a compromise initiative for the ballot while both sides say they intend to continue working on qualifying their original initiatives raising the question: where’s the money going to come from? It takes well over a million dollars […]
SF Sheriff Mirkarimi: When Politics Trumps Truth in California
In early January, this “California Employment” column departed from its job focus to detail an important and brave action in San Francisco. Advocates against domestic violence stood up against the attempt by newly elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and an Old Boys Network of former San Francisco politicians to sweep under the rug a domestic violence […]
Main Street Menace of the Week: Senate Bill 969 (Vargas), Not Businessman’s Best Friend
While the legislature is in session, the National Federation of Independent Business/California will be profiling anti-small business bills and initiatives and the adverse effect they would have on California’s job creators. This is the second column of the 2012 series. Welcome to California, the land of fruits, nuts and over-regulation. In this state, we regulate […]