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1.18.2012

Couldn’t Resist: Gov. Brown Issues Short Statement on Think Long Committee’s Decision

 

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. released the following statement in response to the Think Long Committee’s decision today to place a long-term tax reform measure on the 2014 ballot: 

“Think Long is doing very important work and I look forward to working with them on the critical issue of more permanent tax reform.”    Read more »

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1.17.2012

News Would Have Been If She Got Less Than 100 Percent

 

HANCOCK RECEIVES 100% RATING IN SUPPORT OF WORKERS

STATE LABOR FEDERATION’S “FORCE FOR PROGRESS” SCORECARD GIVES HANCOCK PERFECT SCORE

 

 Sacramento — Senator Loni Hancock, an Oakland Democrat, announced January 17 that she has received a perfect score on issues relating to workers’ rights and worker protection from the California Labor Federation.    Read more »

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1.17.2012

“…Twisted By Those Who Would Use His Name for Their Own Political Gain.”

(Editor’s Note: Donnelly is a Republican from Hesperia. He was detained and cited at Ontario International Airport on January 4  for trying to board a plane with a loaded gun in his carry-on luggage.)

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1.17.2012

“Remaining Awake During a Revolution”

Martin Luther King gave a speech with that title on October 29, 1967 at Grinnell College in Iowa. 

A quote from that speech, echoing a theme that also appears in several other sermons and addresses by the civil rights leader, is the coda of a recent Time cover story on Warren Buffett.    Read more »

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1.13.2012

Happy Belated Birthday Governor Bigler!

John Bigler, California’s third governor and the only chief executive to serve two terms in the 19th Century, was born January 8, 1805 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

No other governor until Hiram Johnson in 1911 would win a first and second term.

At his political height, the roly-poly Bigler was popular enough that lawmakers named a lake after him.    Read more »

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1.12.2012
The Legislative Analyst Takes A First Cut at Gov. Brown’s Very Optimistic Budget Plan

The Legislative Analyst Takes A First Cut at Gov. Brown’s Very Optimistic Budget Plan

The amount of revenue Gov. Jerry Brown says California will receive over the next 18 months is $3.9 billion less than the Democratic governor says, according to an initial review of his spending plan by the Legislative Analyst.

About $3.7 billion of the difference is in estimates of state income tax collections, primarily taxes on capital gains.    Read more »

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1.11.2012

California’s First Police Force and — The Supposed — Capture of Joaquin Murrieta

California’s third governor, John Bigler, signed legislation passed May 17, 1853 authorizing the raising of a company of up to 20 State Rangers, to be led by Captain Harry Love, a bounty hunter and veteran of the Mexican American War. They were charged – for three months or less – to “capture the party or gang of robbers commanded by the five Joaquins whose names are, Joaquin Murietta, Joaquin O’Comorenia, Joaquin Valenzuela, Joaquin Betellier, and Joaquin Carrillo, and their banded associates.”     Read more »

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1.10.2012

Tax Receipts Down In December — Even Using Gov. Brown’s New Scaled-Back Revenue Estimates.

The state’s revenue collections in December were a net $165 million lower than expected, according to State Controller John Chiang in his monthly cash receipts report January 10.

Sales taxes were $17 million higher during the month than Gov. Jerry Brown predicts in his budget proposal, released January 5.  Income taxes were nearly $70 million lower than Brown hoped and corporate taxes came in $20 million below estimates.    Read more »

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1.10.2012

As Opposed to “Factually Invalid Statistical Data?”

(Editor’s Note: The hyperlinks don’t link in the body of the letter. Here is the “California Budget Fact Check.” You make the call.)

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