Criticism for Arnold’s plan to cut mental health
Mental health advocates said today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to divert almost $227 million from the Mental Health Services Fund for which California voters earmarked it just four years...
View ArticleKaren Bass, Darrell Steinberg on the budget deal
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles: State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento:
View ArticleHayashi: Stimulus can buy greener state buildings
Even as Oakland author/activist Van Jones heads to Washington to become President Barack Obama’s “green jobs czar,” the Assembly is looking at ways to use federal economic-stimulus money to create some...
View ArticleSpeaker Bass urges passage of May 19 ballot measures
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, invited me to sit down with her for about a half-hour this afternoon between her Bay Area events. After Bass accepted an award from Girls Inc. for her work...
View ArticleDamned if we do, damned if we don’t
What they’re saying about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bad-and-worse May budget revision proposals… State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento: “The message from the Governor’s May...
View ArticleSome responses to the governor’s speech
From Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, D-Alameda: “The Governor’s proposal to balance the $24 billion budget shortfall without the use of additional revenues is neither a fair nor realistic solution to the...
View ArticleBloggers blast Bass ’bout budget boondoggle
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, and Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, hosted a conference call this afternoon for bloggers — mostly the liberal Democratic netroots, as it turned out....
View ArticleTwo more local lawmakers named to reform panel
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, this afternoon announced that Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Castro Valley, and Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, will be among the 10 members of her...
View ArticleBill will let you deduct Haiti aid from 2009 taxes
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, said this morning she intends to introduce a bill this week that will provide tax relief to Californians donating money to Haiti earthquake relief efforts in...
View ArticleA Maldonado re-vote?
It’s still at least theoretically possible for Assembly Democrats to beat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at his own game and reject state Sen. Abel Maldonado as lieutenant governor. The Assembly voted...
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