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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 5:50 p.m.\u003c/em> Alex Emslie reports that as expected, the version of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag061113_120669.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">TIC condo conversion ordinance backed by Supervisor David Chiu\u003c/a> was initially approved by the Board of Supervisors, and that the version backed by Supervisor Mark Farrell failed. More on the vote from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Condo-conversion-law-OKd-by-S-F-board-4594985.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a>, which makes the point that the eight votes in favor are enough to override a mayoral veto, though Ed Lee has not said yet whether he will sign the legislation into law. The board still has to give its final approval, which is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/11/san-francisco-supervisors-vote-on-tenants-in-common/#provisions\">\u003cstrong>Click here to read about provisions in the ordinance\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/11/san-francisco-supervisors-vote-on-tenants-in-common/#rollcall\">\u003cstrong>Click here to see the roll calls of the votes\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is heading for a vote Tuesday on dueling ordinances to increase the number of tenants-in-common units that can convert to condominiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/22/san-francisco-struggles-with-decision-that-could-help-some-homeowners-and-hurt-renters/denike-cropped/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89984\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-89984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/denike-cropped-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Denike is one of the many tenancy-in-common owners in San Francisco who hope to convert their units to condominiums. 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(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city's office of the controller estimates that about 1,730 units would convert under the terms of either ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag061113_130480.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> ordinance supported by Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener\u003c/a> appears less likely to pass than a more restrictive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag061113_120669.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ordinance backed by David Chiu, Norman Yee and Jane Kim.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"provisions\">\u003c/a>Both proposed laws have undergone substantial change since Farrell's original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell wanted to change the current system because it allows only 200 TIC units, chosen by lottery, to convert per year. Many more unit owners would like to convert. Tenants groups worry that allowing more conversions will reduce the amount of rental housing available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two alternative ordinances up for debate are alike in almost every way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seven years, they would allow eligible buildings to convert if the owners pay a fee of up to $20,000 per unit. \u003c!--more-->Among other criteria, for a building to be eligible a minimum number of units must be occupied by owners applying for conversion: at least one unit in buildings of four units, and at least half the units in buildings of five or six units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Buildings with more than six units have not been eligible for conversion since the original ordinance passed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The units would be allowed to convert in the order that they have been on the waiting list, with about 800 to 1,000 units in the first year, then about 500 in the second year, and fewer in each of the subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fees would be lower depending on the length of time units have been on the waiting list as well, with a minimum of $4,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope would be to work through a backlog of about 2,269 units over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lottery would be suspended for at least 10 years. It could be suspended for an even longer period if the city determines that rental housing is insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the lottery resumes, eligibility would be more restrictive: Only buildings of four units or fewer could convert. Buildings of two units must have at least one unit occupied by an owner. Buildings of three units must have at least two units occupied by owners. And buildings of four units must have at least three units occupied by the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two ordinances differ in one key respect: When the lottery resumes, Farrell's version would allow a new owner-occupant to take the place of someone who left, allowing a building to keep its place on the conversion waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why all the interest in condo conversion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allows only buildings owned by tenants-in-common to convert to condominiums. In this arrangement, occupants of a building own the entire building together. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Almost a week after FBI agents raided his office, Democratic state Sen. Ron Calderon returned to work at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_99263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-99263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/calderon-qs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"State Senator Ron Calderon makes a statement about an FBI raid on his office. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ron Calderon makes a statement about an FBI raid on his office. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters for one minute and 20 seconds – he didn’t take any questions – Calderon said his “intention, at this point, is to do my job that I was elected to do, attend my hearings, get my bills passed out of committee and onto the floor, and do the work of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon had been absent from the Capitol in the days immediately following the FBI raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI and U.S. attorney's office haven’t disclosed the focus of the probe, but \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/05/local/la-me-ff-calderon-fbi-20130606\">several news\u003c/a> outlets \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/06/06/fbi-looking-into-state-sen-calderon-brother-since-2005/\">have reported\u003c/a> it touches on the finances of a Los Angeles-area water district with ties to Calderon’s brother, Tom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of a portrait of Earl Warren, former California governor and United States chief justice, Calderon said, “My family and I have gone through a lot in the last several days. It’s been very stressful, very hard on all of us. We’re all very anxious to put this behind us and carry on a normal life.” Politics is the family profession for the Calderons: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306060850/a\">Ron is the third sibling to serve in the state Legislature\u003c/a>. Calderon’s nephew, Ian, currently holds an Assembly seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 11:45 a.m:\u003c/strong> California Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard Jr. has retracted his statement that the FBI searched the office of the Latino Caucus yesterday. Instead he said agents searched two offices of Ron Calderon, D-Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard issued this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yesterday afternoon, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation served sealed warrants to search an office in the State Capitol and the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those offices was erroneously identified as an office of the Legislative Latino Caucus, based on an outdated roster of room numbers. The Legislative Latino Caucus moved into new offices earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both offices that are subject to the sealed search warrants are the offices of Senator Calderon; one in the Capitol building and the other in the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This correction illustrates the limited information available to the Legislature. We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the agents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson and Tom Verdin, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature's Latino caucus on Tuesday but would not disclose the reason for the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98776\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/05/fbi-raids-office-of-calif-state-lawmaker/ronald-calderon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98776\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Ronald-Calderon-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Calderon (official photograph)\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Calderon (official photograph)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Los Angeles, said the warrants were served at about 3 p.m. Six to eight agents left the Capitol more than six hours later carrying at least a half-dozen boxes and what appeared to be a computer hard drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not disclose the target of the search warrants, but Senate Chief Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard told The Associated Press it was Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles County city of Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a federal search warrant served on Sen. Calderon's office. It's a sealed search warrant. I don't know what it relates to,\" Beard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Calderon was not present during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon did not return a message left on his cell phone. His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5471945/fbi-raids-offices-of-sen-ron-calderon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee \u003c/a>reports that FBI agents have been investigating the way contracts are awarded by the Central Basin Municipal Water District where Calderon's brother, Tom Calderon, is on the board of directors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/legislator/1262-ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon has raised most of his campaign money outside his district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5473539/sen-ron-calderon-took-40000-in.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon received twice as many gifts as any other legislator since 2000. \u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I have a sense that they're on a witch hunt,\" Geragos said in a telephone interview. \"My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted. ... My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.\" He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as \"a bait and switch\" to mute congressional Republicans' outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.Beard told reporters who gathered outside Calderon's office Tuesday night that the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus, which is across the street from the Capitol in the Legislative Office Building, also was searched. A spokeswoman for the caucus, Lizette Mata, did not return telephone and email messages.Sacramento defense attorney William Portanova entered and left the Capitol office during the search. He told the AP he was retained to represent the interests of the Senate as a whole, not any particular lawmaker.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're 100 percent cooperative with any investigation,\" Portanova said late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warrants were being served as lawmakers who are part of the 23-member Latino caucus held an event with reporters at the Capitol to discuss the group's legislative priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's raid at the Capitol recalled the so-called \"Shrimpscam\" investigation in 1985, in which federal agents went undercover and posed as representatives of a phony shrimp-processing company. Five lawmakers went to prison for taking bribes in the FBI sting operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eimiller said the current investigation is being led by federal authorities in Southern California, where Calderon is based, but the search warrants were issued in U.S. District Court in Sacramento and are under seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the search was conducted to investigate \"allegations of criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an ongoing investigation,\" she said. \"Searches are typically done in the early stages of an investigation, so it would be premature to say that charges will be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the state's political watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, closed an investigation into Calderon's three Assembly campaign committees without sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission opened an investigation after receiving allegations that Calderon had used campaign money for personal purposes while seeking re-election to the Assembly in 2003 and 2004, according to agency records. A letter to Calderon said the agency found nothing on its face to show the expenses were made for \"anything other than a political, legislative or governmental purpose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon terminated his legal defense fund in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmaker is part of a powerful Southern California political dynasty. His two brothers served in the state Legislature and his nephew, Ian Calderon, was elected to the Assembly last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is known as a moderate, business-friendly Democrat. After his election to the Assembly in 2002, he was a member of the Assembly Moderate Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon played a key role last year in brokering an agreement that led to new state laws governing foreclosures that went beyond the national mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He originally balked at proposals by Attorney General Kamala Harris that he thought would do too much harm to the lending industry. 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His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5471945/fbi-raids-offices-of-sen-ron-calderon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee \u003c/a>reports that FBI agents have been investigating the way contracts are awarded by the Central Basin Municipal Water District where Calderon's brother, Tom Calderon, is on the board of directors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/legislator/1262-ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon has raised most of his campaign money outside his district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5473539/sen-ron-calderon-took-40000-in.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon received twice as many gifts as any other legislator since 2000. \u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I have a sense that they're on a witch hunt,\" Geragos said in a telephone interview. \"My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted. ... My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.\" He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as \"a bait and switch\" to mute congressional Republicans' outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.Beard told reporters who gathered outside Calderon's office Tuesday night that the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus, which is across the street from the Capitol in the Legislative Office Building, also was searched. A spokeswoman for the caucus, Lizette Mata, did not return telephone and email messages.Sacramento defense attorney William Portanova entered and left the Capitol office during the search. 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In 1,646 cases since 2003, confidential information was released after state employees lost equipment and documents or mailed and posted private information to the wrong place, according to a state database of preliminary reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one-third of cyberbreaches are successful, according to the database. Agencies reported 49 out of 154 computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks and hacking attempts breached security. On several occasions, computers were disconnected from the network and destroyed after being infected with malware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Robinson, acting director of the state’s Office of Information Security, said the agency tries to continually train and instruct information technology staff across the state to protect and encrypt sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we’ve seen incidents where they have not done that,” she said. “From our perspective, one of those is one too many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases run the gamut, from employee error to hack attacks to poor information security practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In little more than two years, for example, the Department of Motor Vehicles has mailed the wrong driver’s license or vehicle registration to more than 1,000 people, according to internal records. 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A memo in 2008 from the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection reminded state agencies to encrypt all devices containing confidential information, a requirement long outlined in the State Administrative Manual. Yet many agencies have not followed the procedure, allowing electronic information to fall into harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely need to find out how rampant this situation is and rectify the situation as soon as possible,” said Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, chairman of the Assembly’s Select Committee on Privacy. “Building a firewall to safeguard information is crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without encryption, anyone can override a computer’s password and gain access to its confidential contents by removing the computer’s hard drive, using software or guessing. Technology experts say encryption is an easy procedure for any information technology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t realize that passwords are quite trivial,” said Seth Schoen, a senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They should encrypt their data storage on every device. In the absence of that, whoever gets the device will be able to read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, the California Highway Patrol is required to take reports on each security incident and investigate crimes involving state computers or those that are on state property. But Sgt. Kelly Dixon, an investigator in the Computer Crimes Investigation Unit, said limited resources make it impossible for the unit to investigate every crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Theoretically speaking, we would be responsible,” he said. “Practically speaking, the local agency would come and take the report. We’re not going to investigate a vehicle burglary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notification Lacking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show many agencies do not always send out notification letters immediately after security breaches, despite California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring businesses and state agencies to notify anyone whose unencrypted private information might have been accessed by outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaches involving theft of equipment are rarely investigated or lead to an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, a Highway Patrol officer was shopping at a Sacramento Barnes & Noble when a thief broke into the trunk of his personal car, according to a state property report. The loot included a Highway Patrol-issued.40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol, three .40-caliber high-capacity magazines and the officer’s unencrypted laptop containing confidential information, according to the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer called the Sacramento Police Department to make a report; no arrest was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Department of Developmental Services records, a supervisor of a program for developmentally disabled infants and toddlers at the North Los Angeles County Regional Center had left his work laptop, personal laptop and iPhone in his car overnight on a street in Santa Monica, according to a police report. When he returned in the morning, the items were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the state supervisor reported the thefts to the Santa Monica Police Department, the case never was investigated. Santa Monica police Sgt. 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State agencies frequently fail to protect the confidentiality of patients and consumers, including those who are the most vulnerable to fraud and identity theft – children, the elderly and the disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25 Percent Not Encrypted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 10 years of state-collected data on computer security incidents involving confidential and private information reveals state agencies do not always encrypt computers, even when they contain confidential information affecting thousands of people. Of the 283 computers and phones containing confidential information that were reported lost and stolen, 25 percent were not encrypted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, employee carelessness, not hacking, leads to security breaches. In 1,646 cases since 2003, confidential information was released after state employees lost equipment and documents or mailed and posted private information to the wrong place, according to a state database of preliminary reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one-third of cyberbreaches are successful, according to the database. Agencies reported 49 out of 154 computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks and hacking attempts breached security. On several occasions, computers were disconnected from the network and destroyed after being infected with malware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Robinson, acting director of the state’s Office of Information Security, said the agency tries to continually train and instruct information technology staff across the state to protect and encrypt sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we’ve seen incidents where they have not done that,” she said. “From our perspective, one of those is one too many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases run the gamut, from employee error to hack attacks to poor information security practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In little more than two years, for example, the Department of Motor Vehicles has mailed the wrong driver’s license or vehicle registration to more than 1,000 people, according to internal records. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Lauren Bénichou\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a series of projects -- from streetlights to senior centers -- that were chosen directly by nearly 4,000 residents last month. These projects came about as part of the city's adoption of a new civic model called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbvallejo.org/\" target=\"_blank\">participatory budgeting\u003c/a>.\" The items up for a vote, totaling about $3 million, represent a small chunk of the city's budget. But Monica Tipton, who volunteered as a budget delegate, said even that small amount wasn't so easy to grapple with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98178\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I learned that all those people that I was like, ‘Oh my God, they make such stupid decisions, why don’t they do this, this and this…?’ I know now why they don’t do this, this and this,\" she said. \"It’s a tough process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participatory budgeting is a new twist on an old theme, dating back to New England town meetings. The model Vallejo adopted was developed in Brazil in the 1980s, and it's been picked up in places like Chicago, New York and \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-12/san-francisco-to-pilot-participatory-budgeting\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Larry Rosenthal, from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, said people have been thinking about direct democracy for years. “What differs here is that a city like Vallejo or wards in Chicago have actual resources,\" he said, \"and the person who was in control of those resources, or the agency, makes a decision that they no longer wish to exercise discretion in the first instance about how that money gets spent. Instead, they want the community to decide.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is spreading. In San Jose, a city councilman is pushing for participatory budgeting. In Oakland, community activists are proposing different approaches. The Community Democracy Project, or CDP, is an all-volunteer group that meets every week at Sudo Room in downtown Oakland. Co-founder Sonya Rifkin said she wants to give residents power to decide the entire city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will it take a concerted effort? Yes,\" she said. \"Will it take time to work, to get in the groove of it? Yes. Will we learn a lot along the way? Yes. But is it worth it? I think so.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rifkin’s group hopes to put an initiative on the Oakland ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Stiles of \u003ca href=\"http://openbudgetoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Budget Oakland\u003c/a>, which creates online resources to help people make sense of city spending, said the group's new visualization tools, also known as \"civic hacking,\" help translate between city officials and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are trying to do is create a platform where people can easily understand the budget, “ Stiles said. “Then, based on what they see, have a more informed discussion about it and then find out how to get more involved and participate in the budget process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most cities actually have a public process right now, such as Oakland’s town hall meetings. At one of those sessions, Oakland resident Mary Forte echoed the sentiments of many residents who showed up that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just seem like they’re always questions,” said Forte. “It’s a lot of numbers that are really complex for people to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like CDP and Open Budget Oakland can make things clearer for voters like Forte and could involve more people in budget decisions. But UC Berkeley's Rosenthal said that the more participatory the process, the more unwieldy it can become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things are extraordinarily difficult to administer in total budget settings,” Rosenthal said. “We would be looking at a substantial investment of time and effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Vallejo, Monica Tipton said the large turnout that the participatory budgeting vote attracted should convince the council to ratify the citizen-approved projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will approve it, I have confidence of that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is spreading. In San Jose, a city councilman is pushing for participatory budgeting. In Oakland, community activists are proposing different approaches. The Community Democracy Project, or CDP, is an all-volunteer group that meets every week at Sudo Room in downtown Oakland. Co-founder Sonya Rifkin said she wants to give residents power to decide the entire city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will it take a concerted effort? Yes,\" she said. \"Will it take time to work, to get in the groove of it? Yes. Will we learn a lot along the way? Yes. But is it worth it? I think so.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rifkin’s group hopes to put an initiative on the Oakland ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Stiles of \u003ca href=\"http://openbudgetoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Budget Oakland\u003c/a>, which creates online resources to help people make sense of city spending, said the group's new visualization tools, also known as \"civic hacking,\" help translate between city officials and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are trying to do is create a platform where people can easily understand the budget, “ Stiles said. “Then, based on what they see, have a more informed discussion about it and then find out how to get more involved and participate in the budget process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most cities actually have a public process right now, such as Oakland’s town hall meetings. At one of those sessions, Oakland resident Mary Forte echoed the sentiments of many residents who showed up that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just seem like they’re always questions,” said Forte. “It’s a lot of numbers that are really complex for people to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like CDP and Open Budget Oakland can make things clearer for voters like Forte and could involve more people in budget decisions. But UC Berkeley's Rosenthal said that the more participatory the process, the more unwieldy it can become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things are extraordinarily difficult to administer in total budget settings,” Rosenthal said. “We would be looking at a substantial investment of time and effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Vallejo, Monica Tipton said the large turnout that the participatory budgeting vote attracted should convince the council to ratify the citizen-approved projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will approve it, I have confidence of that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like parents,” Barclay says. “You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group’s involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar’s campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how bad things have gotten,” Barclay muses. “We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn’t hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California’s infrastructure is fraying. “My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,” says Barclay. “We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. Why aren’t we expanding our territory?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/dylan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97488\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-97488 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Dylan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Unis, 4, of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-year-old Dylan Unis of San Diego considers the first fish he’s ever caught, a trout from Doane Pond. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not just an issue with the Department of Parks and Recreation. The 6th grade school camp (aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.palomarmountain.com/outdoorschool.html\">Palomar Outdoor School\u003c/a>) closed in 2011 because its operator, the San Diego Unified School District, can’t afford it any longer. “Those fond memories are not being generated now,” Barclay says. “That’s a facility that’s going to waste, and it’s an opportunity that’s going to waste as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park is doing what it can to get the word out to Southern California: first, that there’s a state park up on the mountain; and second, public donations help it thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. 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He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn’t hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California’s infrastructure is fraying. “My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,” says Barclay. “We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. 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In Sacramento, several Democratic state lawmakers are sponsoring bills to cut down on these tragic accidents, by making gun owners more accountable for how their weapons are secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One measure would make gun owners liable for any harm done by their firearms—regardless of who caused it. Right now they can be held liable if a child gets a hold of their loaded weapon and harms someone. But the proposed law goes further, in that gun owners could be penalized if they leave a loaded weapon unsecured, so that a child simply \u003cem>could\u003c/em> access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Whip Jimmy Gomez, a co-sponsor of AB231, wants gun owners to take more precautions. “Keep your gun in a lock box, have a trigger lock, keep the bullets away from the gun itself, and that way if something happens and somebody tries to use your gun, it’s less likely that they’ll be able to get a hold of it, and then actually do something dangerous with it,” said Gomez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many gun owners say of course they’re responsible for their firearms, but they don’t need new laws to spell out how to make them safer. “If you have a gun, common sense, without anybody even telling you anything, is to lock it up so there’s no access from anybody that’s not authorized to use a firearm,” said Scott Jackson, a firearms owner and safety instructor in the Bay Area city of Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Jackson supports common sense gun storage, and he tries to lead by example. At his shop he shows off several large black gun safes, containing an array of rifles and handguns. “These are bolted to the floor, and they’re $3,000 safes,” said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Jackson’s firearms are locked up, unloaded, when they’re not in use. Under current California law, customers buying firearms must leave the shop with their guns unloaded. They must also have an approved gun safe or a locking device, such as a simple cable lock that loops through the action of an unloaded handgun or rifle. Once the cable lock is secured, the firearm becomes inoperable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a second gun safety bill passes in Sacramento, gun owners would also have to lock up all firearms whenever they leave their residences. SB108, sponsored by Democratic Senator Leland Yee, is also aimed at preventing unauthorized access to firearms. But gun owners complain they’d either have to reload their guns each time they come home, or give up on self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Having an unloaded firearm in your nightstand drawer is tantamount to having a rock to respond to an immediate danger. \n\u003cp>‑\u003cem>\u003cem>Sam Paredes, Gun Owners of California\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Having an unloaded firearm in your nightstand drawer is tantamount to having a rock to respond to an immediate danger that presents itself,” said Sam Paredes, a lobbyist and the executive director of Gun Owners of California, which, according to its website, has more than 30,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Paredes, the state can mandate how guns must be secured in public, at a business, at a firing range, or in a vehicle, but not in the owners’ residence. “What the government cannot do is tell people how, when and where to keep those firearms in their own homes,” said Paredes. “Cannot be done. It’s unconstitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being onerous, said Paredes, the Democrats’ proposed new gun safety measures are simply unnecessary. “The vast majority of Californians are properly and safely storing their firearms because the number of accidents is very small. We hear about every time it happens, it makes the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to the California Department of Public Health, the number of accidental firearm deaths in the state has been dropping, from 146 in 2005 to 27 deaths in 2010. Some say that’s because of strict new state regulations; others say firearm deaths have been dropping everywhere. But that is small comfort to people who have been touched by this kind of tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfield mother Sandra Macias lost her 14-year-old son Alex, who was killed in an accidental shooting. “He was a comedian. He was very funny. He played soccer and baseball, basketball. He was in the band. He was a Boy Scout. 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The infusion of cash helped the Democrats win a supermajority in the Capitol: two-thirds control of the Legislature for the first time since 1883.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system also paid off for the speaker’s biggest fundraisers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, Pérez gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature – posts on the speaker’s leadership team and seats on the powerful “juice committees.” \u003c!--more-->These\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are seven of the Assembly’s 30 standing policy committees. They control bills affecting the financial bottom line for the Capitol’s wealthiest interest groups: from banks, insurance companies and public utilities to casinos, racetracks and liquor distributors. For lawmakers who serve on them, the committees are a source of political campaign “juice”: abundant donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez spokesman John Vigna said the speaker makes legislative assignments based on merits, not money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely no connection, zero connection, between Speaker Pérez’s leadership selections and any political considerations, including fundraising,” he said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pérez chooses his leadership team based on their ability to serve the people of California” and nothing else, Vigna added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis of more than 38,000 contributions to Assembly Democrats in the 2011-12 campaign shows a link between donations to the speaker’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>targeted races and a lawmaker’s prospects for important legislative assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Among the findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The mega-donors to Pérez’s targets – three lawmakers who gave more than $250,000 – obtained\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>positions of power. Each was named to either a leadership post or chairmanship of a juice committee, along with a seat on at least one juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave more than $150,000 were likely to get multiple important posts. All 18 got one juice committee seat, and 16 got a leadership post, chairmanship of a juice committee or a seat on a second juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave less got less. Donors who contributed less than $150,000 stood a 13 percent chance of heading a juice committee or joining the leadership. No lawmaker who gave less than $40,000 was named chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California’s Assembly speakers, Democrat and Republican alike, long have courted the state’s monied interests, seeking campaign funds to win or maintain power in the Legislature. Despite efforts to break this cycle, most speakers also have given political allies leadership posts, committee assignments and other perks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pérez memos and the pattern of donations that followed them provide new insights into how those dynamics played out in the 2012 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Phillip Ung, policy advocate for the political reform group California Common Cause, said CIR’s findings are reason for concern.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“This system of campaign finance buying leadership on committees” has nothing to do with good government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When voters see someone is chair of a committee, their expectation is that person is there because that person is a policy expert, not because they bought that chair,” Ung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez, 43, is a former labor union official who was elected speaker in 2009. Even in an era of term limits – Pérez must leave the Assembly next year – he has emerged as one of California’s most powerful officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the memos make clear, Pérez as speaker has made fundraising a priority. But raising money is complicated by Proposition 34, a campaign finance law passed by voters in 2000 to limit the influence of big money on state elections. Today, the law caps donations in legislative races at $3,900 per donor but allows unlimited donations to state political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s memos – one concerning the June primary, the other the general election – spell out his strategy for sidestepping the $3,900 donation cap and directing millions in contributions to key campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documents, Pérez sought $127,900 from each of the 52 Democrats in the Assembly at the time. The breakdown: $3,900 apiece in each of five targeted primary races and $3,900 more in each of six races targeted in the November campaign; $65,000 for the state party’s “candidate support fund,” split between the primary and general elections; and $20,000 for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez told the lawmakers not to send the money directly to the campaigns. Instead, “for proper tracking,” they were told to deliver the money to an office the speaker\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>maintains near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the Democrats gave more money than the speaker had requested. Republicans lost in all the races Pérez targeted, and Democrats wound up with 55 seats in the 80-seat Assembly – one seat more than needed for a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaping benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Meanwhile, as Pérez doled out legislative assignments between August and January, those who gave the most money reaped larger benefits, CIR’s analysis indicates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly’s top donor, Toni Atkins of San Diego, gave $282,000 to the targeted races, records show. She was named Assembly majority floor leader – next to the speaker, the top leadership post. In addition to naming her majority leader, Pérez kept Atkins on the Health Committee, a juice committee on which she had served in the previous term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Perea of Fresno, a Pérez loyalist who gave a total of $277,000, was named chairman of the committee that oversees the insurance industry. He retained seats on two other juice committees as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez’s No. 3 donor, Mike Gatto of Los Angeles, gave $258,000 to the targeted races. The speaker promoted him to be chairman of the most powerful juice committee, the Appropriations Committee, with jurisdiction over fiscal bills. Gatto also kept his seat on another juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Gatto declined to comment, referring a query to the speaker. Atkins and Perea didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis shows that $150,000 was a cutoff of sorts. Most lawmakers who donated more than $150,000 to the speaker’s targeted races obtained important committee assignments or leadership posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the three mega-donors, 18 lawmakers broke the $150,000 threshold. Pérez named six of them to head juice committees. Five more got leadership posts, and another five got two or more juice committee assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Hernández of West Covina, who donated $185,000, wound up with seats on three juice committees. He was Pérez’s majority whip, but the speaker replaced him after he became embroiled in scandal involving an ex-girlfriend. Hernández didn’t respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez named two major donors to leadership posts even though they were incoming freshman assemblymen and thus had no Capitol experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Pasadena City Council member Chris Holden, who donated $199,000 to Pérez’s targets, was named majority whip, replacing Hernández, and was put on two juice committees. In a statement, Holden said he believed he was named whip because of his long service in local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activist Anthony Rendon of South Gate, near Los Angeles, who gave $191,000, was named assistant majority floor leader and appointed to the Utilities and Commerce Committee. Pérez later removed Rendon from the leadership and made him chairman of the Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, which is not considered a juice committee. Rendon asked for that assignment, spokesman Bill Wong said, largely because of water issues in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lawmakers who steered less than $150,000 to the speaker, prospects were leaner, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen lawmakers gave between $40,000 and $150,000. Of those, two were named to leadership positions, and one became chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospects were poorest for lawmakers who gave less than $40,000. None of this group of 18 lawmakers was named to head a juice committee, and two were named to leadership posts.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The experience of Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada of Davis was noteworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamada donated $9,600 to the targeted races, the least of any incumbent Assembly Democrat. When Pérez parceled out leadership posts and slots on the juice committees, Yamada was passed over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the former social worker was reappointed as chairwoman of the Assembly’s low-profile Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care. She didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploiting loopholes in a law enacted to stanch the flow of big money in state politics, the Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into the campaigns Pérez designated, a CIR data analysis shows. The infusion of cash helped the Democrats win a supermajority in the Capitol: two-thirds control of the Legislature for the first time since 1883.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system also paid off for the speaker’s biggest fundraisers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, Pérez gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature – posts on the speaker’s leadership team and seats on the powerful “juice committees.” \u003c!--more-->These\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are seven of the Assembly’s 30 standing policy committees. They control bills affecting the financial bottom line for the Capitol’s wealthiest interest groups: from banks, insurance companies and public utilities to casinos, racetracks and liquor distributors. For lawmakers who serve on them, the committees are a source of political campaign “juice”: abundant donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez spokesman John Vigna said the speaker makes legislative assignments based on merits, not money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely no connection, zero connection, between Speaker Pérez’s leadership selections and any political considerations, including fundraising,” he said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pérez chooses his leadership team based on their ability to serve the people of California” and nothing else, Vigna added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis of more than 38,000 contributions to Assembly Democrats in the 2011-12 campaign shows a link between donations to the speaker’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>targeted races and a lawmaker’s prospects for important legislative assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Among the findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The mega-donors to Pérez’s targets – three lawmakers who gave more than $250,000 – obtained\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>positions of power. Each was named to either a leadership post or chairmanship of a juice committee, along with a seat on at least one juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave more than $150,000 were likely to get multiple important posts. All 18 got one juice committee seat, and 16 got a leadership post, chairmanship of a juice committee or a seat on a second juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave less got less. Donors who contributed less than $150,000 stood a 13 percent chance of heading a juice committee or joining the leadership. No lawmaker who gave less than $40,000 was named chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California’s Assembly speakers, Democrat and Republican alike, long have courted the state’s monied interests, seeking campaign funds to win or maintain power in the Legislature. Despite efforts to break this cycle, most speakers also have given political allies leadership posts, committee assignments and other perks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pérez memos and the pattern of donations that followed them provide new insights into how those dynamics played out in the 2012 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Phillip Ung, policy advocate for the political reform group California Common Cause, said CIR’s findings are reason for concern.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“This system of campaign finance buying leadership on committees” has nothing to do with good government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When voters see someone is chair of a committee, their expectation is that person is there because that person is a policy expert, not because they bought that chair,” Ung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez, 43, is a former labor union official who was elected speaker in 2009. Even in an era of term limits – Pérez must leave the Assembly next year – he has emerged as one of California’s most powerful officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the memos make clear, Pérez as speaker has made fundraising a priority. But raising money is complicated by Proposition 34, a campaign finance law passed by voters in 2000 to limit the influence of big money on state elections. Today, the law caps donations in legislative races at $3,900 per donor but allows unlimited donations to state political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s memos – one concerning the June primary, the other the general election – spell out his strategy for sidestepping the $3,900 donation cap and directing millions in contributions to key campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documents, Pérez sought $127,900 from each of the 52 Democrats in the Assembly at the time. The breakdown: $3,900 apiece in each of five targeted primary races and $3,900 more in each of six races targeted in the November campaign; $65,000 for the state party’s “candidate support fund,” split between the primary and general elections; and $20,000 for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez told the lawmakers not to send the money directly to the campaigns. Instead, “for proper tracking,” they were told to deliver the money to an office the speaker\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>maintains near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the Democrats gave more money than the speaker had requested. Republicans lost in all the races Pérez targeted, and Democrats wound up with 55 seats in the 80-seat Assembly – one seat more than needed for a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaping benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Meanwhile, as Pérez doled out legislative assignments between August and January, those who gave the most money reaped larger benefits, CIR’s analysis indicates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly’s top donor, Toni Atkins of San Diego, gave $282,000 to the targeted races, records show. She was named Assembly majority floor leader – next to the speaker, the top leadership post. In addition to naming her majority leader, Pérez kept Atkins on the Health Committee, a juice committee on which she had served in the previous term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Perea of Fresno, a Pérez loyalist who gave a total of $277,000, was named chairman of the committee that oversees the insurance industry. He retained seats on two other juice committees as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez’s No. 3 donor, Mike Gatto of Los Angeles, gave $258,000 to the targeted races. The speaker promoted him to be chairman of the most powerful juice committee, the Appropriations Committee, with jurisdiction over fiscal bills. Gatto also kept his seat on another juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Gatto declined to comment, referring a query to the speaker. Atkins and Perea didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis shows that $150,000 was a cutoff of sorts. Most lawmakers who donated more than $150,000 to the speaker’s targeted races obtained important committee assignments or leadership posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the three mega-donors, 18 lawmakers broke the $150,000 threshold. Pérez named six of them to head juice committees. Five more got leadership posts, and another five got two or more juice committee assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Hernández of West Covina, who donated $185,000, wound up with seats on three juice committees. He was Pérez’s majority whip, but the speaker replaced him after he became embroiled in scandal involving an ex-girlfriend. Hernández didn’t respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez named two major donors to leadership posts even though they were incoming freshman assemblymen and thus had no Capitol experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Pasadena City Council member Chris Holden, who donated $199,000 to Pérez’s targets, was named majority whip, replacing Hernández, and was put on two juice committees. 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