SF Resolution Not About Fairness; It’s About More Tax Revenue
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution this month seeking to undo a major part of Proposition 13 that is cloaked in claims of fairness but is clearly nothing more than a call to raise and spend more tax revenue. The resolution says Proposition 13 is unfair because commercial and residential property are […]
Main Street Menace of the Week: Assembly Bill 1792 (Gomez)
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 fourth column of the 2014 series. You would think that after all the years I have been in Sacramento, nothing would […]
Elections Committee Votes Down Tough Ethics Reform
Members of the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee killed SB 1379, which contained some of the toughest ethics and campaign finance restrictions put forward since three Democratic lawmakers were suspended while facing criminal charges, two of them involving corruption. My bill, the Legislative Reform and Transparency Act of 2014, sought to reform campaign financing […]
GOP Wants Tunnels Back in Water Bond
Will Gov. Jerry Brown’s Twin Tunnels project for the California Delta still make it into the $11 billion water bond projected for the November election? It’s still possible. The bond has been postponed twice already because legislators didn’t think it would pass muster with voters in 2010 and 2012. But the ongoing state drought gives it more […]