Budget Trailer Bill Mischief
The California state budget was passed and signed two months ago but the legislature is still passing trailer bills attached to the budget with small money tweaks and major policy changes. It’s doubtful when voters passed Proposition 25 in 2010 that changed the rules on how the budget is approved they intended the legislature to […]
Busting the Myth That Proposition 13 Eviscerated Local Revenue
The year 1978 might seem almost like ancient history – a distant memory for most voters, and unimaginable for a growing class of lawmakers who were not yet born then. With the passage of time, folklore prevails and myths sometimes come to overshadow facts. It is in this light that opponents of Proposition 13 have […]
We Should Get to Vote in More than One Place
In the constant and fruitless search for fraud in American elections, one focus has been on the question of whether some Americans are voting in more than one place. President Trump’s new federal commission on election integrity has already seized on examples of people who are registered to vote in more than one state. It’s […]
Deputy District Attorneys Applaud Supreme Court’s Prop 66 Ruling
We are pleased with the Courts decision to uphold the will of the voters. Prop. 66 preserves the death penalty for the most heinous criminals by enacting critically needed reforms to the system. The court recognized that Californians not only voted to keep the death penalty but also to reform the appellate court system and […]