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Governor Brown’s Prison Plan Jeopardizes Safety of Streets

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 5, 2011  CONTACT: Nghia Nguyen Demovic @ 916.307.9955 cell

Sacramento – Author of the nation’s toughest child protection law, Jessica’s Law, Senator Sharon Runner issued the following statement on the Governor’s signing of Assembly Bill 109 to shift the responsibility of incarceration from the state to the 58 counties:

“With the stroke of his pen, the Governor has ignited a public safety time bomb.    Read more »

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Lest One Has Forgotten the Terry Gilliam of Political Advertising

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California’s Legislature hasn’t exactly cornered the market on ghost-voting. Welcome to Mongolia.

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Governor Says His Revised Budget in May Will be “Fully Balanced”

Gov. Jerry Brown said April 5 he would offer a revised budget plan in May that balances – mainly through more than $13 billion in additional spending cuts.

Speaking to a Sacramento conference of the California Medical Association, the Democratic governor told the doctors the state was “facing a real challenge” but that despite stalled budget negotiations with Republicans, “breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.”    Read more »

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Changes Sought to State’s Religious Freedom Protections

Among the initiatives seeking signatures for placement on the ballot is “The Free Exercise of Religion.”

Its sponsor is Yes Jesus is Lord.Org. Below the group’s name on the stationary of the letter seeking title and summary from the state Attorney General for the measure is a portion of the King James Version’s Philippians 2:11.    Read more »

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End To State Aid Crippling, Say California’s Network of Fairs

One of the victims of the $11.2 billion in state spending cuts signed by Gov. Jerry Brown is the state’s network of fairs that will no longer receive $32 million in subsidies.

Restoration of that money is on a list of actions Republicans want Brown to take before they agree to have two of their members in each house vote to place a five-year extension of set-to-expire taxes on the ballot.    Read more »

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Property Rights Group Urges End to Redevelopment Agencies

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:               March 31, 2011

The Institute for Justice—the nation’s leading legal advocate against eminent domain abuse—is calling on Republicans in the California Legislature to approve a proposal currently before them that would eliminate more than 400 redevelopment agencies across the state.

The Institute sent a letter to Republicans today urging them to set aside partisan politics and focus on protecting the private property rights of California’s hard-working home, small business and farm owners.    Read more »

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