Legislature Returns to Full Plate
Lawmakers return to the State Capitol this morning with at least 21 billion problems on their minds. The re-emergence of a massive state budget deficit is likely to be front and center when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers his State of the State speech on Wednesday and his budget plan on Friday.
Sidestepping Campaign Donation Limits -- County Committees
Since voters limited campaign donations with Proposition 34 in 2000, political campaign donors have come up with a variety of ways to sidestep the limits. California Watch reporter Chase Davis joins us to talk about one such method. Davis has written an extensive expose of party central committees at the county level, essentially filtering donations for candidates all over the state. [California Watch is a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting and part of an ongoing collaboration highlighted on The California Report]