Sacramento bureau chief Scott Detrow covers state government, politics and policy for KQED News and its statewide news program, The California Report.
By Scott Detrow
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The day after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/04/in-governors-race-brown-chases-history-kashkari-an-upset\">winning an unprecedented fourth term in office\u003c/a>, California Gov. Jerry Brown is sounding both reflective -- and resolved to strike a pragmatic balance between Democratic Party ideals and the state's long-term needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters gathered in his office that he had recently spent some time reading through clippings from his first two terms in office, in the 1970s and early '80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I was carving out a path that was not sustainable,” Brown said about the era when he was the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA_zY6tqQw\">Dead Kennedys lyrics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that’s one reason why during his second go-round, Brown has remained committed to nuts-and-bolts issues, particularly the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a challenge to be fiscally responsible, and on the other hand to keep faith with the aspirations and hopes of the Democratic Party and those looking for more and more government spending and investment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’s a challenge to be fiscally responsible, and on the other hand to keep faith with the aspirations and hopes of the Democratic Party and those looking for more and more government spending and investment.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During his limited campaigning this year, Brown repeatedly pointed to the fact that under his watch, the state has gone from crippling deficits to sizable surpluses. (Of course, the overall economy, new budget-crafting rules and increased taxes played a big role in that reversal, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you abandon that [commitment to those Democratic aspirations], you become really incoherent as Democratic leader,” Brown said. “If you totally give into it you fall prey to budget deficits and chaos and public dissatisfaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being the case, Brown said he’ll aim to spend the next four years “combining the hopes with what government can do while putting reins on what it should not do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'For Me, Prop. 30 Was Temporary'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top on the “should not do” list, Brown said, would be extending the Proposition 30 tax hikes, passed in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/long-term-debate-over-Jerry-Brown-temporary-tax-Proposition-30/\">but begin to phase out in 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, Prop 30 was temporary. That’s what I said, and I mean it,” he said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a handful of Democrats in the Legislature have begun to call for an extension. There has been growing dissatisfaction among the party’s rank-and-file lawmakers about Brown’s hesitancy to increase social services spending, and Brown’s philosophical balance between spending and progressive ideas could be tested over that issue in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Climate Change, 'I’ll Do Whatever I Can'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue Brown has no reluctance to forge ahead on is climate change. California is the only state with its own cap-and-trade program, aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions. \u003ca href=\"http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e5e80ca1d55f49898a5d835e6aa762b7/CA--Governor-California-Brown-Interview\">The governor has said he hopes to pass even tougher emissions limits\u003c/a> in his next term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he isn’t worried that California remains on far ahead of the curve, when it comes to capping greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to take it as one of my major responsibilities to help bring people around. So I will go to Washington, I’ll go to other places, and I’ll do whatever I can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will include, he said, a push to get to the point where California gets more than 40 percent of its energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown dismissed the idea that Republican gains in statehouses and the Senate may slow efforts to enact cap-and-trade systems elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact there may be a temporary stall in some states or even Washington does not stop the climate from changing, and does not stop the…near-unanimity in the scientific community that we have to do something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy industry has spent a lot of time and effort in recent months criticizing California’s climate change regulations,\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/07/cap-and-trade-faces-first-major-political-test/\"> which are set to expand to include gasoline sales.\u003c/a> As Brown ramps up his climate change evangelism, you can expect the push back to grow, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Campaign Postmortem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republican candidate \u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/lessons-trail/\">Neel Kashkari has published a public postmortem\u003c/a> on his first run for office. The former U.S. Treasury official posted a 12-page memo on his website, looking back at what worked and didn’t work during the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t appreciate how important and how hard it would be to develop name recognition in a state of 38 million people,” wrote Kashkari, who did, in fact, struggle mightily to get voters to remember him. Despite getting a lot of media attention, “all of the press coverage we earned didn’t move the needle. It came down to paid advertising for which we didn’t have much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was blunt about his struggles to raise cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I didn’t appreciate how important and how hard it would be to develop name recognition in a state of 38 million people.'\u003ccite>Neel Kashkari\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I did not anticipate the fatigue major Republican donors felt after very well-funded defeats in 2010 and 2012. Indeed many donors have simply given up on California and instead donate to races outside the state, such as for the U.S. Senate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari ultimately spent several million dollars of his own money on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the primary proceeded I realized my savings could move the needle so I felt an obligation to do whatever I could to support our campaign,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari spent a large percentage of his net worth and lost by 17 points. Still, he said he “found the process of running for governor a wonderful, enriching experience that allowed me to meet the widest possible diversity of people, from homeless people living on the street, to working Californians struggling to build a better life for themselves.” You can read his full memo \u003ca href=\"http://www.neelkashkari.com/lessons-trail/\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nostalgia for the 1990s \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/rewind\">is very in right now\u003c/a> in pop culture. The same is true for Democratic politics. While Democratic candidates have been keeping President Barack Obama at arm’s length this fall, former President Bill Clinton has been campaigning all across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Clinton brought his road show to the campus of UC Davis, where he stumped for House Democrats Ami Bera and John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton touched on a wide range of themes during his 20-minute speech -– everything from economics to history to Ebola to health care costs to, yes, how strong the economy was when he was president. But he kept circling back to one basic theme: urging the young, largely Democratic crowd to vote on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A different America shows up at most midterm elections than shows up in most presidential elections,” Clinton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That different America is typically much more conservative. And for Democrats like Bera, who won his suburban Sacramento seat by a razor-thin margin in 2012, that different electorate could mean a different outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new politics of intense polarization, funded by outside money, designed to make you think that everyone in public life is some sort of a slug, is nuts,” Clinton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a message that voters in the 7th Congressional District can probably relate to. They’ve been swamped with third-party attack ads aimed at both Bera and Republican Doug Ose. The race is one of the most closely watched and tightly contested in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy, but it has a very particular purpose in this election,” said Clinton. “And that purpose is to get you to sit it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento-area World Series viewers, who have been subjected to Bera or Ose commercials between what feels like every half-inning, could tell you that both parties are inundating the district with negative campaign ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton is a candidate of the past, but he’ll likely be part of a future presidential campaign, too. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s likely 2016 run came up only once, when Bera said he hopes his daughter has a chance to vote for “the first woman president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton stumped earlier in the day with Rep. Julia Brownley, whose Ventura County district also is among the races considered vulnerable for Democrats, and Pete Aguilar, who is running to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Gary Miller in another Southern California district that is considered a potential flip for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownley welcomed Clinton's support, telling a crowd of about 1,200 at Oxnard College that introducing him was \"the greatest honor of a lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president told an enthusiastic audience dominated by young Latinos that it was important for their futures to re-elect Brownley and send other Democrats to Congress, according to the Ventura County Star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got all our jobs back,\" he said of the recovery from the recession. \"Now we can create the future. We must do it with equal opportunity for all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174434006&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Saturday night in Amador County, and the local farm bureau is raffling off prizes after its annual dinner. The mood is a little lighter than earlier in the evening, when \u003ca href=\"http://mcclintock.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Tom McClintock\u003c/a> entertained the crowd with a dense, 20-minute assault on federal environmental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the blunt truth of the matter,” McClintock told the crowd. “Droughts are nature’s fault. They happen. But water shortages are our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock, a Republican, has held either state or federal office for nearly three decades, and he’s as conservative as they come. He’s proud to rattle off all the groups that are endorsing his re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, are all endorsing me precisely because of my work to improve the economy,” McClintock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, conservative groups like the ones McClintock mentioned base their endorsements on an official's voting record. And that, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.artmooreforcongress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">challenger Art Moore\u003c/a>, is precisely the problem. McClintock’s been in office too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-time candidate, also a Republican, talks like a tea partier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I don’t think the Founding Fathers intended for this idea of a career politician,” he says, appearing at a candidate forum at Sierra College in Placer County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a twist from the typical tea party challenge -- or the typical same-party challenge, for that matter -- the Republican candidate is attacking McClintock from the left, not the right. Moore says the incumbent is too rigid, too partisan and too unwilling to work with Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2013 Shutdown Still Lingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore argued that McClintock and other House Republicans should have never pushed to shut down the federal government last year in an attempt to delay Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressman represents a district that’s 70 percent federal lands,” he says, “and decided it would be a good idea to spearhead a government shutdown. That is an approach that has terrible second- and third-order effects that we saw last summer. It’s shortsighted. It’s not putting the country first.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Our congressman represents a district that’s 70 percent federal lands and decided it would be a good idea to spearhead a government shutdown.'\u003ccite>Candidate Art Moore\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last October’s shutdown still lingers in the 4th Congressional District, which stretches from Lake Tahoe past Yosemite. \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201310111630/b\" target=\"_blank\">The shutdown crippled tourism\u003c/a>, which was already suffering because of the Rim Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock was among the first to push Republicans to threaten a government shutdown unless Obamacare was delayed. But when asked if that was a mistake, he shifts blame to Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Again, what we had not calculated on was how irresponsible the Senate would be,” he says. “Just to sit there and not amend the bill and send it back so that we could begin the process of negotiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Never Compromise'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether he’s too partisan, McClintock points out President Obama signed one of his bills into law this year -- though it was a relatively small bill, transferring land to a local Indian tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, voters in this conservative congressional district may not want much bipartisanship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got a perfect answer for that,” says Amador County Supervisor Brian Oneto before listening to McClintock’s farm bureau speech. “Because people always say, 'Oh you should compromise. You should compromise.' I say, 'I want a million bucks. How much are you going to give me?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oneto says less is more when it comes to striking deals with Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “If the compromise makes sense, that’s fine. But if something is not right, you should never compromise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4th Congressional District is a Republican-versus-Republican fight, one of more than 20 same-party races across the state. McClintock says California’s top-two system deprives voters of the chance to support a Democrat or third-party candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of that’s been thrown out the window. People are beginning to realize they have very restricted choices. And I think that’s been reflected in a dramatic drop in voter turnout,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art Moore, as you can imagine, loves the fact that he can compete against the incumbent in the fall, rather than in a lower-profile primary. 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By and large, Kashkari paints the $450 billion program as a bipartisan success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice ... when the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.'\u003ccite>Neel Kashkari, U.S. Treasury Department, 2008\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everyone told us, 'Washington, D.C., is so complicated. You can’t get Republicans and Democrats to work together. You can’t navigate the House and the Senate.' ” Kashkari said during his September debate with Gov. Jerry Brown. “We figured it out. We got them to work together. We got the leaders of both parties to put their country before their political careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the way Kashkari characterized it six years ago, at the depths of the economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice,” he told a group in the fall of 2008, his voice sounding strained and stressed. “When the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Your ATM Wouldn't Work'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s back up a bit. The economy imploded in 2008 for a long list of complicated reasons. The short summary is that too many banks bought up too many bad mortgages, and the global credit market basically dried up. 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Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. 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That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s no question about what the top line is on Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari’s resume: He led the federal government’s high-profile response to the 2008 economic meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the campaign trail, Kashkari doesn’t spend too much time talking about the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. And there’s a reason: Even though the bailout plan worked, it was messy, complicated and deeply unpopular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173159774&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173159774'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that Kashkari completely ignores TARP. He briefly mentions it during his stump speech and has a stock answer prepared when voters and reporters ask about the program. By and large, Kashkari paints the $450 billion program as a bipartisan success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice ... when the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.'\u003ccite>Neel Kashkari, U.S. Treasury Department, 2008\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everyone told us, 'Washington, D.C., is so complicated. You can’t get Republicans and Democrats to work together. You can’t navigate the House and the Senate.' ” Kashkari said during his September debate with Gov. Jerry Brown. “We figured it out. We got them to work together. We got the leaders of both parties to put their country before their political careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the way Kashkari characterized it six years ago, at the depths of the economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice,” he told a group in the fall of 2008, his voice sounding strained and stressed. “When the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Your ATM Wouldn't Work'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s back up a bit. The economy imploded in 2008 for a long list of complicated reasons. The short summary is that too many banks bought up too many bad mortgages, and the global credit market basically dried up. (Need a refresher? \"This American Life’s\" 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">episode on the subprime lending crisis\u003c/a> remains one of the best explanations out there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kashkari likes to put it on the campaign trail, the economy was on the verge of a situation where “literally, your ATM wouldn’t work. You type in your code, no money comes out. You get your paycheck, you can’t cash it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Kashkari had decided to leave a comfortable job at Goldman Sachs when the bank’s CEO, Hank Paulson, became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, this was suddenly Kashkari’s problem. He was all of 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Yeah, let’s bail them out, but don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. San Diego Republican Darrell Issa may be endorsing Kashkari this year, but at the time he ripped into Kashkari:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" scrollable=\"no\" src=\"http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4511989\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know whether Congress was lied to,” Issa demanded of a somewhat flustered Kashkari during a memorable hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari and the rest of the Treasury Department argued that the direct stock purchases were the better way to unfreeze the markets quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TARP eventually doled out $250 billion to banks and $450 billion overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included more than $60 billion for insurance giant AIG, which would become the most controversial aspect of Kashkari’s tenure. That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. 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The move generated a political firestorm, and was one of the first (of many) PR nightmares to confront the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special inspector general overseeing TARP, Neil Barofsky, told Congress that Kashkari’s team dropped the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treasury didn’t know about [the bonuses] until two weeks beforehand,” he testified after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Audit%20Reports/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies'_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf\">releasing an audit focused on the AIG bonuses\u003c/a>. “And they didn’t know the scope of those payments. That they were going to apply not just to essential personnel, but also to nonessential. People who worked in the mail room, in the kitchen, the file room. Our audit concludes this was a failure. A failure of oversight by Treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the luxury of 20/20 hindsight,” Kashkari responded during a recent appearance on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We were trying to prevent the American, and the global, economy from collapsing.” Still, he didn’t dispute the critique. “With all the luxury of six years to contemplate this, sure, we’d do lots of little things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Thankless Task\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Kashkari says TARP got every dollar back, and turned billions in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually a contested point. While repayments, interest and dividends have generated billions more in revenue than what the government paid out, TARP’s special inspector general \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/July_30_2014_Report_to_Congress.pdf\">argues the government is still owed about $40 billion in principal\u003c/a>. Kashkari disputes that figure, pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx\">the Treasury Department’s official accounting\u003c/a>, which backs his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the larger point, UC Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the answer is pretty clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TARP was undoubtedly a success,” said Solomon, who has written several papers on the government’s response to the financial meltdown. “The fact that we’re standing here and the banks are up, and the economy is growing -- maybe not as fast as we want [it] to -- clearly shows that TARP was a success. It stopped the financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was seen as rewarding the banks that helped create the crisis to begin with. That doesn’t play well in politics, which may explain why candidate Kashkari doesn’t talk about TARP a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172106976\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic campaign consultant Andrew Acosta has a recurring problem. New candidates come into his office and immediately tell him they want tap into the high-tech world of social media-fueled fundraising and big data -- just like \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_social_media\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But he spent a ton of money on it,” Acosta said he’ll typically tell the clients. “And nobody can replicate that running for a state office, or state Assembly. So you have to bring them back to reality of -- the mail is how you can be cost-effective and move the message forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, the mail. It’s a flashy, high-tech world out there, but for the consultants who run political campaigns, one of the most reliable and effective tools for communicating is actually very low-tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, well-funded campaigns blanket the airwaves with television and radio ads. And when it comes down to it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/09/03/142431/campaign_expert_neil_oxman_talks_about_how_he_makes_political?source=npr&category=politics\" target=\"_blank\">those commercials\u003c/a> probably move the polls more than anything else. But Republican consultant Tom Ross said broadcast spots also waste a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your dollars might be spent advertising to people who A, aren’t registered to vote, and B, don’t even live in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Micro-targeted Mailers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Direct mail, on the other hand, can be \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/05/10/137605/easy_on_the_ears_gop_ads_adapt_to_reach_women_voters\" target=\"_blank\">specifically targeted\u003c/a>. Not only can campaigns focus on the voters in their district, Ross said publicly-available information lets them focus on narrow demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We can slice and dice it different ways.'\u003ccite>Andrew Acosta, Democratic Campaign Consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Likelihood to vote, party affiliation. We’ll look at their vote history – that’s all on the files,” he said in an interview. “And that’s kind of the top-line targeting that we tend to look at -- maybe age breaks, gender, obviously, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns can get even more detailed and purchase information about the sort of magazine subscriptions a voter has to get a better sense of who they’re talking to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta said they can also figure out exactly when a vote-by-mail voter is likely going to cast his or her ballot so the mailers can be timed just right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re an absentee voter who always, like I do, holds their ballot until Election Day and walks it in, I can send mail to them later,” he said. “Versus a Democrat, who, the ballots show up the first week and they vote early -- they’re done. We can target them early. So we can slice and dice it different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That level of detail allows campaigns to alter their message as much as they need to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultant Tom Ross recalled working on a transportation-funding measure in Orange County. His firm’s polling showed voters were more likely to support the effort if they heard about the specific, local projects it funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We determined we had to do twenty different versions of the same mailer,\" he said. \"Each community got a different mailer with a specific callout ... If this measure passes you’re going to get your intersection fixed. Or you’re going to get a specific road added. Or whatever it might be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, those messages can be negative, too. Observers say some of the nastiest attacks often come in mailers, where the messages have the ability to fly under the radar, and maybe detect less scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Senate Democrat Alex Padilla pushed unsuccessfully for a bill requiring campaigns to register every voter communication on a central website. That sort of central clearinghouse could bring more accountability to direct mail, though Padilla said his measure was more about creating one-stop shop for voters to research candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, with technology these days -- social media -- it’s just as easy to take a picture of a mailer with your phone, put it [online] and challenge candidates in a public way that way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Eight Or Nine Seconds'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all the digital distractions out there, Ross said the mail is a good way to get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got, you know, eight or nine seconds by the time they get it from their mailbox to their recycle bin,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the broadcast commercials voters can fast-forward on their DVR, or the online banner ads eyeballs often ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So campaigns spend a lot on mail. Just look at one of this spring’s most contested primaries – the 28th state Senate District in Riverside County. First-place finisher Jeff Stone’s campaign spent about 40 percent of its overall budget on mailers and postage. Bonnie Garcia, who came in second, spent more than half of her budget on mail. And under the top-two primary system, these two candidates are doing it all over again this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ross and Acosta say the same thing: When they conduct focus groups after the campaign’s over, it’s the messages from their direct mail that voters remember. The voters may not remember where they heard or saw that particular slogan or argument, but they remember its substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So brace yourself for a lot of mail over the next few weeks. For what it’s worth, Acosta said he sympathizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do pity some of the voters who just get inundated with mail,” he said. “And the thing that we’re all aware of -- there’s other people mailing as well. It’s not just the campaigns I’m working on. It’s the city council race, the race for dogcatcher, and all the rest of it. It’s a lot for people to have to sift through.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/171558230\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, California will implement a wide range of new regulations aimed at providing a lot more public disclosure about the hydraulic fracturing process. The new rules, set into motion by \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/11/15/what-californias-new-fracking-rules-would-do-and-not-do/\">2013’s Senate Bill 4\u003c/a>, will put California on par with other top drilling states when it comes to policing the fracking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tough rules are only half of the equation -- they don’t matter if they aren’t enforced. And the struggles state regulators have had keeping tabs on another part of the drilling process raise a lot of questions about whether California has the resources and the tools to handle a fracking boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Garbage Cans For Drilling Operations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method in question: deep injection wells. Drilling for oil and gas creates a lot of water waste. Fracking uses millions of gallons of salty, chemical-laced water. A lot of it comes back up with the oil and gas, and drillers have to do something with all that wastewater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They usually take that stuff and bring it to an injection well, where they shoot the waste deep underground. Injection wells are basically garbage cans for drilling operations. The federal Environmental Protection Agency says these wells are the best way to dispose of drilling waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the fracking boom hasn’t arrived in California yet, the state already hosts thousands of these wells. That’s because the oil being drilled here is very watery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety-five percent of what comes out of the ground in California from hydrocarbon zones is water,” said Jason Marshall of the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources -- also known as DOGGR.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/fracking-california/\" target=\"_blank\">More on Fracking From KQED Science\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/fracking-california/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10343323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Fracking-main-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fracking-main\" width=\"325\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Follow Fracking From Multiple Perspectives\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/10/10/anti-fracking-activists-in-california-take-fight-to-county-ballots/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Fracking Activists in California Take Fight to County Ballots\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/open-arms-greet-fracking-in-kern-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Arms Greet Fracking in Kern County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/with-drought-new-scrutiny-over-frackings-water-use/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Science: With Drought, New Scrutiny Over Fracking’s Water Use\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/watch/archive/277987\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Newsroom: Special Edition on Fracking\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/tag/earthquakes/\">earthquakes are attributed to fracking\u003c/a>, it's really these injection wells. In places like \u003ca href=\"http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/04/pennsylvanias-link-to-ohio-earthquakes/\">Ohio\u003c/a>, Texas, and \u003ca href=\"http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/tag/earthquakes/\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, some of these wells have helped trigger quakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University seismologist Nicholas van der Elst said the fluid, when it gets deep underground, has likely been seeping into pre-existing fault lines, making it easier for them to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The better analogy would be that it creates a cushion of pressurized fluid,\" he said. \"Kind of like a hovercraft or an air hockey table.\" Faults previously kept in place by pressure and friction were suddenly sliding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is this a problem in California? Marshall said the state’s injection wells haven’t been tied to quakes. One main reason, he said, is that the bulk of them are depositing wastewater in underground spaces that had already held oil and other liquids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That doesn’t create the same dynamics we’ve seen in other parts of the nation,\" he said, \"and as a result we haven’t seen earthquakes in California from injection wells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Marshall said, injection wells can actually stabilize the ground, since that space oil had filled before being pumped out could otherwise start to cave in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Audit’s \"Hard Findings\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quakes or no quakes, when you’re putting wastewater deep into the earth, there are a lot of things to regulate. And California hasn’t always been doing the best job.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Our attention has really been driven squarely onto hydraulic fracturing and well stimulation.'\u003ccite>Jason Marshall, DOGGR\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Documents/DOGGR%20USEPA%20consultant's%20report%20on%20CA%20underground%20injection%20program.pdf\">the federal government audited the state.\u003c/a> The EPA report included \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Documents/DOGGR%20USEPA%20consultant's%20report%20on%20CA%20underground%20injection%20program.pdf\">a lot of criticism\u003c/a> -- notably the fact that the state Department of Conservation \"lack[s] sufficient manpower and other resources to implement [oversight] at a satisfactory level, especially in the largest districts.\" The audit also found some gaps in some state protection standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some hard findings in there,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the EPA followed up this summer and asked the state to provide an update on how it’s addressed the issues, the department’s response could be boiled down to: We’re working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(DOGGR) has already started its ... evaluation,\" the response said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it take three years to begin addressing the federal concerns? Marshall said DOGGR has been focusing on preparing for new types of drilling activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, to be perfectly blunt, our attention has really been driven squarely onto hydraulic fracturing and well stimulation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Contamination Near Injection Well Sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the state’s review already has some eye-opening findings. This summer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/ca-halts-injection-fracking-waste-warning-may-be-contaminating-aquifers\">the state shut down about a dozen Kern County wells\u003c/a> that may have been injecting waste into fresh water formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re still sorting out what happened with regard to those individual wells,\" said Marshall. Like who gave approval -- or whether approval was even given -- to inject in those locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of hard information worries environmental groups like Clean Water Action. Especially now that the State Water Board has located more than 100 water supply wells drilled within a mile of the injection sites that were shut down. And now tests show that a handful of those water wells may be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nitrate, arsenic, and thallium exceeded the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) in four of the water supplies,\" the State Water Board told the federal government in a letter last month. “TDS [total dissolved solids -- basically the level of saltiness] exceeded the secondary MCL (SMCL) in 3 samples collected, with maximum concentrations detected at 1,800 ppm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That technical statement means the water board found toxic substances in water supplies, a great concern Andrew Grinberg of Clean Water Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential impact on real people is really the most interesting and compelling and concerning thing about the mismanagement of this program,\" he said. \"So when we see over 100 wells in direct proximity to places where disposal should not have been happening, that’s the biggest cause for alarm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state says it’s not yet clear whether the contamination is tied to the injection wells, but it’s continuing to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marshall said the department has also added more than 60 new positions so it can better regulate existing injection wells and the possible coming fracking boom. 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In places like \u003ca href=\"http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/04/pennsylvanias-link-to-ohio-earthquakes/\">Ohio\u003c/a>, Texas, and \u003ca href=\"http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/tag/earthquakes/\">Oklahoma\u003c/a>, some of these wells have helped trigger quakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University seismologist Nicholas van der Elst said the fluid, when it gets deep underground, has likely been seeping into pre-existing fault lines, making it easier for them to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The better analogy would be that it creates a cushion of pressurized fluid,\" he said. \"Kind of like a hovercraft or an air hockey table.\" Faults previously kept in place by pressure and friction were suddenly sliding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is this a problem in California? Marshall said the state’s injection wells haven’t been tied to quakes. One main reason, he said, is that the bulk of them are depositing wastewater in underground spaces that had already held oil and other liquids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That doesn’t create the same dynamics we’ve seen in other parts of the nation,\" he said, \"and as a result we haven’t seen earthquakes in California from injection wells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Marshall said, injection wells can actually stabilize the ground, since that space oil had filled before being pumped out could otherwise start to cave in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Federal Audit’s \"Hard Findings\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quakes or no quakes, when you’re putting wastewater deep into the earth, there are a lot of things to regulate. And California hasn’t always been doing the best job.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Our attention has really been driven squarely onto hydraulic fracturing and well stimulation.'\u003ccite>Jason Marshall, DOGGR\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Documents/DOGGR%20USEPA%20consultant's%20report%20on%20CA%20underground%20injection%20program.pdf\">the federal government audited the state.\u003c/a> The EPA report included \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Documents/DOGGR%20USEPA%20consultant's%20report%20on%20CA%20underground%20injection%20program.pdf\">a lot of criticism\u003c/a> -- notably the fact that the state Department of Conservation \"lack[s] sufficient manpower and other resources to implement [oversight] at a satisfactory level, especially in the largest districts.\" The audit also found some gaps in some state protection standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some hard findings in there,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the EPA followed up this summer and asked the state to provide an update on how it’s addressed the issues, the department’s response could be boiled down to: We’re working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(DOGGR) has already started its ... evaluation,\" the response said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why did it take three years to begin addressing the federal concerns? 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Especially now that the State Water Board has located more than 100 water supply wells drilled within a mile of the injection sites that were shut down. And now tests show that a handful of those water wells may be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nitrate, arsenic, and thallium exceeded the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) in four of the water supplies,\" the State Water Board told the federal government in a letter last month. “TDS [total dissolved solids -- basically the level of saltiness] exceeded the secondary MCL (SMCL) in 3 samples collected, with maximum concentrations detected at 1,800 ppm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That technical statement means the water board found toxic substances in water supplies, a great concern Andrew Grinberg of Clean Water Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The potential impact on real people is really the most interesting and compelling and concerning thing about the mismanagement of this program,\" he said. \"So when we see over 100 wells in direct proximity to places where disposal should not have been happening, that’s the biggest cause for alarm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state says it’s not yet clear whether the contamination is tied to the injection wells, but it’s continuing to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marshall said the department has also added more than 60 new positions so it can better regulate existing injection wells and the possible coming fracking boom. 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The pollution, the smog, the health effects, the rising sea level -- in California, the forest fires which are now burning for more days than historically was ever imaginable -- it's real, it's here and we've got to put a price on carbon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg News today takes a \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-24/brown-says-global-lead-on-zero-emissions-beating-forecast\" target=\"_blank\">further look at California's leadership on climate change\u003c/a>, including the proliferation of electric vehicles, reporting that 40 percent of plug-in electric vehicle sales occur in California. For more, check out\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/category/climate/\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED Science's climate coverage\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Brown's full remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The California story is a very hopeful one. It's a story of Republican and Democratic governors pioneering innovative climate strategies. It's not been easy, it's not without contest, but we're making real progress. In fact, the people themselves have been involved when those who oppose carbon pricing put the measure to a popular referendum. And in that vote just a few years ago, the people voted overwhelmingly to stay the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what do we have? Well, we've got a goal to have one-third of our electricity sector renewable by 2020. We're at 23 percent today and we will make it probably in the next three or four years, and then we'll go beyond that. We have a goal of a million electric cars - we have 100,000 on the roads today - and we have the toughest vehicle emission standards anywhere in the country. In fact, the country now has adopted the California standard. 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