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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Reported by Stephanie Martin and Caitlin Esch\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oakland's Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/howardjordanSM.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan speaks during a press conference on Mar 21, 2009. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is looking to raise money for crime prevention, while a new interim police chief transitions into power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters began today casting votes by mail for \u003ca href=\"http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/City_of_Oakland_parcel_tax,_Measure_I_(November_2011)\">Measure I\u003c/a> — a parcel tax designed to raise money for police, crime fighting technology and other city services. In the meantime, the city’s new interim Police Chief Howard Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/article/oakland-selects-assistant-chief-jordan-again-lead-police-department\">began his first full week\u003c/a> on the job after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/quan-names-howard-jordan-a-interim-police-chief/\">being sworn\u003c/a> in last Thursday, following the resignation of Anthony Batts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201110170900\">Forum this morning\u003c/a>, Jordan brushed off a question about the city’s bureaucracy — something that former chief Batts said got in the way of getting things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are things that you would come to expect in a big city,” Jordan told Forum Host Michael Krasny. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I think it’s just a matter of how you deal with them — you have to prioritize. And I don’t see any impending issues to us getting where we need to get to, which is, one: get into compliance with the settlement agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan was referring to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/notable/Riders.html\">a settlement\u003c/a> that stems from a 10-year-old police corruption scandal. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201109220833\">judge has threatened\u003c/a> to place the police department in federal receivership for its failure to fully comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the potential takeover, Mayor Jean Quan said she has a new plan for public safety — and the pressure is rising, after Oakland’s 87th murder of the year.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43285\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/cropJeanQuan.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43285\" title=\"Jean Quan\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/cropJeanQuan.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Quan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Council Member Jean Quan, photographed on Nov. 8, 2010 outside of Oakland's City Hall. (Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of concerned Oakland residents \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/article/several-hundred-oaklanders-hear-mayor-quans-new-anti-crime-plan-safety-summit\">crammed into a gym at Laney College\u003c/a> over the weekend to hear Mayor Quan’s new strategy to fight crime in a 100-block area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the blocks where, for the last five years, 90 percent of the murders and the shootings and the violent crimes in this city have taken place,” Quan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Jordan said residents will see a heavier police presence in some parts of East and West Oakland, which some residents welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old Cartier King lives in East Oakland and told KQED reporter Caitlin Esch on Saturday, “Where I live, I hear people get shot, and stuff like that. And so sometimes, I wonder what we can do to prevent the things that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthai Kuruvila told Forum’s Krasny today, that due to fragmented leadership from Oakland city council, there are many different ideas on how to improve public safety, and that Oakland residents respond in a variety of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> “Where I live, I hear people get shot, and stuff like that. And so sometimes, I wonder what we can do to prevent the things that happen.” Cartier King, 20-year-old resident of East Oakland \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You have a lot of diverse opinions in Oakland; it is a very diverse city. You have people come to city council meetings who want gang injunctions and loitering ordinances or curfews. And some people who are just so fed up, they’re just like, ‘let’s just try something.’ Let’s give our police what they ask for … and just move on.’ And there are other people who are opposed to all of those things, giving police any more power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Krasny noted that some are critical of Measure I and its ability to provide the funding needed for police and other services, because spending percentages are not on the ballot, nor are they binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuruvila told Krasny, “Measure I gives broad categories in which the money has to be spent; whether it could be $1 million on police, or $10 million on police, it’s unclear. In a city where people have a certain amount of cynicism and distrust about how their city council spends money, that kind of framework is a huge source of criticism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released Monday afternoon by City Council members Rebecca Kaplan, Council President Larry Reid and Patricia Kernighan, the three announced a proposal that would direct $5 million in funds from the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the press release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The proposal would stipulate how the city would spend revenue generated by the parcel tax’s passage. In addition to the $5.1 million for police staffing, it would also include funds for ShotSpotter, an acoustic technology to assist law enforcement in solving gun crimes, as well as funding for youth violence prevention, senior centers, and street repair.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Quan will present the 100-block safety plan to the Oakland city council in coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42766\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 221px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Hiram_JohnsonSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-42766\" title=\"Hiram_JohnsonSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/Hiram_JohnsonSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov Hiram Johnson, who with fellow Progressives instituted the initiative, the referendum, and the recall. (Photo: Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monday marked the 100th anniversary of the landmark California election that introduced the initiative, the referendum, and the recall. AP last weekend ran a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/calif-marks-100-years-since-landmark-political-reforms-as-calls-for-change-sound-again/2011/10/08/gIQAvfBiVL_story.html\">good history of these populist instruments of governance\u003c/a>, including the political conditions that gave rise to them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>By the time of the statewide election on Oct. 10, 1911, voter discontent had reached a crescendo, with Californians feeling frustrated and disenfranchised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories of political corruption and bribery trials of corporate executives and labor leaders were fixtures of the newspapers. The Southern Pacific Railroad controlled nearly every lever of power in California, including many of the state’s largest newspapers that were beholden to its advertising revenue. Lawmakers rode the rails for free and dined on the company’s dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiram Johnson, an upstart lawyer who had tried to elicit change from outside the halls of power, seized the moment. In his 1910 campaign for governor, he promised to end the tyranny of robber baron railroad officials and return power to the masses.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A hundred years later, there's a pretty widespread \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=california+government+broken\">notion\u003c/a> that the state’s ability to govern itself is broken, and \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409810240735120.html\">some would say the tools of direct democracy forged in that bygone era are important contributing factors\u003c/a> to the current lack of efficacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked KQED's resident expert on state government, Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers, about the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are two pretty indisputable facts about the system of direct democracy,\" Myers says. \"First, one tool in particular -- the initiative -- is used far more than the other two (the referendum and the recall). And second, Californians, as measured in poll after poll, like having the power to take matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say that Californians don't think there are ways to make the process better. But for all its flaws, voters like having a say on writing laws and amending the state's constitution.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's more on the issue from John Myers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the criticisms of direct democracy as practiced in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If backers have the momentum and money, they can get pretty much get anything on the statewide ballot.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Observers and experts generally make two observations about California's system of direct democracy: it's the most ironclad of its kind in the world (and some say that inflexibility is a problem), and the political world in which it thrives is far different than Gov. Hiram Johnson and his Progressive-era backers could have imagined in 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the inflexibility: Once an initiative qualifies for the ballot, there's almost no going back. It can only be removed by the courts (in rare circumstances), and if voters approve it, it can usually only be stricken from the books or amended by -- you guessed it -- another initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the drafters of these initiatives, be they average citizens (whose ideas rarely make it to the ballot these days) or powerful interest groups, have little incentive to work with the Legislature to enact their plans, and almost no outside system to check whether the measure will have unintended consequences. If backers have the momentum and money, they can get pretty much get anything on the statewide ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The referendum and recall are rarely used. Some observers have suggested that the referendum -- a method by which voters overturn decisions made at the state Capitol -- is actually the better tool than the initiative, and that it's a sensible check on the powers of elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the leading reform suggestions being kicked around? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the initiative process, the proposals include a new system to allow legislators the chance to write the proposal into law themselves and thus avoid an expensive campaign; changes to make it easier for grassroots groups to qualify an initiative rather than only well-funded efforts that pay several dollars per voter signature gathered; and requirements that any initiative proposing to spend tax dollars or cut taxes include a specific way to pay for that change in government funding (thus avoiding initiatives that only exacerbate the state's fiscal woes).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the initiative process is enshrined in the California Constitution, and the only way to amend that document is by a vote of the people (either through a legislative ballot measure or an initiative ballot measure). Getting it on the ballot would be hard enough; winning a campaign that may be opposed by powerful defenders of the status quo is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have suggested making it easier to qualify a referendum -- thus, possibly channeling some of the energy away from initiatives. (I \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/08/18/refer-madness-2012/\">blogged on this\u003c/a> back in August.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who are the defenders of the status quo? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most basic sense, the status quo consists of California's most powerful interest groups -- organized labor, big business, environmentalists, anti-tax advocates, and so on. That's not to say all of these groups like everything about California's system, but they have the most to lose if the rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the chances any significiant changes to the system will be made in the near future? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all depends on public sentiment. Government reform in Califorina largely has to happen through the ballot box, which means a campaign in which voters have to perceive something is a problem that needs fixing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other hurdle is that \"reformers\" (and there are several prominent reform groups out there) have to agree on exactly how to change the system. The lack of consensus among reform advocates -- plus the big bucks needed to run an effective campaign in California -- are the real hurdles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/11/20993/initiative-anniversary\">100 years of the ballot initiative\u003c/a> - KPCC's Patt Morrisson discusses the initiative with Joe Mathews, critic of the current system and co-author of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiacrackup.com/\">California Crackup\u003c/a>\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/07/BA2E1LE0RC.DTL\">Daylong celebration of century of referenda\u003c/a> (Oct 8, SF Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-initiative-20111010,0,4577283.story\">A California tuneup\u003c/a> (LA Times editorial)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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It can only be removed by the courts (in rare circumstances), and if voters approve it, it can usually only be stricken from the books or amended by -- you guessed it -- another initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the drafters of these initiatives, be they average citizens (whose ideas rarely make it to the ballot these days) or powerful interest groups, have little incentive to work with the Legislature to enact their plans, and almost no outside system to check whether the measure will have unintended consequences. If backers have the momentum and money, they can get pretty much get anything on the statewide ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The referendum and recall are rarely used. Some observers have suggested that the referendum -- a method by which voters overturn decisions made at the state Capitol -- is actually the better tool than the initiative, and that it's a sensible check on the powers of elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the leading reform suggestions being kicked around? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the initiative process, the proposals include a new system to allow legislators the chance to write the proposal into law themselves and thus avoid an expensive campaign; changes to make it easier for grassroots groups to qualify an initiative rather than only well-funded efforts that pay several dollars per voter signature gathered; and requirements that any initiative proposing to spend tax dollars or cut taxes include a specific way to pay for that change in government funding (thus avoiding initiatives that only exacerbate the state's fiscal woes).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the initiative process is enshrined in the California Constitution, and the only way to amend that document is by a vote of the people (either through a legislative ballot measure or an initiative ballot measure). Getting it on the ballot would be hard enough; winning a campaign that may be opposed by powerful defenders of the status quo is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have suggested making it easier to qualify a referendum -- thus, possibly channeling some of the energy away from initiatives. (I \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/08/18/refer-madness-2012/\">blogged on this\u003c/a> back in August.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who are the defenders of the status quo? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most basic sense, the status quo consists of California's most powerful interest groups -- organized labor, big business, environmentalists, anti-tax advocates, and so on. That's not to say all of these groups like everything about California's system, but they have the most to lose if the rules change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the chances any significiant changes to the system will be made in the near future? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all depends on public sentiment. Government reform in Califorina largely has to happen through the ballot box, which means a campaign in which voters have to perceive something is a problem that needs fixing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other hurdle is that \"reformers\" (and there are several prominent reform groups out there) have to agree on exactly how to change the system. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/11/BABQ1LFU02.DTL&type=politics\">Rachel Gordon and John Coté of the Chron called last night's mayoral debate at the City Club,\u003c/a> \"a relatively witty, sometimes lively and fairly interesting debate.\" You know...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/chronlittlemanLG.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/chronlittlemanLG.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chronlittlemanLG\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42595\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KCBS has posted \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/11/video-last-nights-san-francisco-mayoral-debate/#video\">\u003cstrong>video of the entire event\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; watch it below, in four parts. Ha ha ha! Like you're really gonna do that...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No but really, the election's in a month, and you \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-10-02/bay-area/30237163_1_interim-mayor-polls-show-ding\">still don't know\u003c/a> who you're voting for, let alone the names of like half the candidates, do you? Better get informed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or if you've had enough of one-way communication, \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/form/kqed/90ce9efab60d/what-do-you-want-from-san-franciscos-next-mayor\">tell KQED's Public Insight Network what you want from San Francisco's next mayor\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read what people from around San Francisco have told KQED News reporters are the issues they really care about, at our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/\">\u003cstrong>Dear Mayor... web site\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. We went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/#tab-bayview\">the Bayview\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/#tab-mission\">Mission\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/#tab-pacheights\">Pacific Heights\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/#tab-therichmond\">the Richmond\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/sfmayor2011/#tab-centralsf\">'hoods of central San Francisco\u003c/a> to find out what problems each area's residents are most concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oct 10 mayoral debate\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"video\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6336851-san-francisco-mayor%e2%80%99s-debate-part-1/\">SF mayoral debate part 1\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6336861-san-francisco-mayors-debate-part-2/\">SF mayoral debate part 2\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6336874-san-francisco-mayors-debate-part-3/\">SF mayoral debate part 3\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6336891-san-francisco-mayors-debate-part-4-closing-statements/\">SF mayoral debate part 4\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand for Governor Jerry Brown's philosophy of governance and politics. And yet Brown's self-described \"canoe theory\" seems to have stood the test of time, with his paddling skills put to the test this past week navigating Capitol waters thick with hundreds of pieces of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the paddle has been laid down, as has the signing pen, giving the public the chance to gauge whether Brown's path was straight or wildly off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownlatest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Guv's analogy -- that in politics, like in canoeing, one must paddle a little on the left and a little on the right to successfully go in a straight line -- is one he coined early in his second term as chief executive (\u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19790720&id=Hf8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4332,2567580\">writer Richard Reeves noted in 1979 that the Guv made the comment to a YMCA group\u003c/a>). The \"canoe theory\" has followed Jerry Brown through the years -- used derisively at times (as Reeves did in 1979), while in other instances cited as evidence of his finely tuned political sensibilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the final decisions announced late Sunday night on scores of bills, Brown's \"canoe theory\" seems especially useful. The governor finds himself in a statehouse where, more than his previous two terms, powerful political interests are pushing hard on his paddle. Very few of these groups see any value in a course other than the one they've plotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cases on the 2011 bill watch, Governor Brown paddled his way left... then right... on issues that, at a macro level, don't appear all that different. One example: his decision to sign into law a ban on teens under the age of 18 from using tanning beds \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_746_bill_20110906_enrolled.html\"> and his decision to allow some girls in the same age range to get vaccinations for the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) without parental consent\u003c/a>. On one hand, the two laws suggest contradictory standards for teens to control (or not) their own lives; on the other, Brown's logic could be seen as consistent if it's believed the state must step in to help protect the health of some minors. But then that is tough to square with the bill Brown squashed \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/07/browns-veto-messages-simple-philosophical/#more-10066\">last month\u003c/a> requiring helmets for snow skiing kids -- with the governor notably saying in that veto message, \"I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considerable attention has been paid to the fate of bills either loved or hated by organized labor, and rightly so. As the strongest supporter of the Capitol's majority party, the wishes of public employee unions usually carry weight. Brown clearly paddled these last few days both toward... and then away... from his union supporters. Even so, whether those were strokes of equal strength remains up for debate. The governor vetoed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_101_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 101\u003c/a>, a bill that would have allowed in-home child care workers to join the union ranks. His veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_101_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) blamed it on the state's budget woes -- a nod to the reality that state funding of child care programs is easier to cut if it's not under the umbrella of government services protected by labor's political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown elsewhere steered towards his union allies, ostensibly in the name of good government, by signing the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/09/good-government-or-political-power-play/\">politically explosive SB 202\u003c/a>. The bill, easily a candidate for Most Notable Late Night Bloomer in the Legislature's final hours, states that initiative measures (both those in circulation now and those forever more) can only appear on November general election ballots. In his signing message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_0202_Signing_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), the governor praised the bill's effort to get initiatives in front of the most voters possible, as well as the bill's two year delay of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/aca_4_bill_20101013_chaptered.html\">legislative ballot measure\u003c/a> buffing up the state's budget reserve fund (Brown and others said the state can't afford that kind of cash stash right now, while one \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2011/10/08/jerry-brown-let-the-people-decide-sometimes-too-late/\">conservative columnist called the Guv\u003c/a> to task for no longer trusting the voters to make the right call). But political watchers know that SB 202's most short-term practical effect would be the delay of a likely June 2012 initiative to limit union political spending -- a delay that would place the measure onto the November 2012 ballot, where union-friendly Democrats will turn out in large numbers to vote for President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Republicans know this too, which is why a top GOP attorney \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes/status/122462497113505793\">filed a proposed referendum\u003c/a> to overturn SB 202 within hours of Brown's signing of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deep divisions between the labor and business communities were seen in several of Governor Brown's final paddle strokes on Sunday night. He paddled towards big business in vetoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">SB 469\u003c/a>, requiring economic impact reports before big box stores can be built (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">PDF\u003c/a>), and in his veto (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_931_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_931_bill_20110914_enrolled.html\">SB 931\u003c/a>, which would have established new rules for companies that pay workers with \"\u003ca href=\"http://calitics.com/diary/13919/payroll-debit-cards-less-choice-lower-wages\">payroll debit cards\u003c/a>.\" Both were big blows to unions. However, Brown then paddled towards the unions with the signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_22_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 22\u003c/a>, which bans employers in most circumstances from running credit reports on job applicants, and by signing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_183_bill_20110919_enrolled.html\">AB 183\u003c/a>, which bans self-serve kiosks in supermarkets from being used to buy alcohol. Both were strongly opposed by the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More careful paddling through murky waters can be found in Brown's handling of racial politics on college campuses. He signed the much-talked about plan to give \u003ca href=\"http://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17268\">undocumented students full access to financial aid\u003c/a>, but vetoed a Democratic plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_185_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">allow using race, ethnicity, or gender in admissions\u003c/a>. On the latter bill, Brown said (PDF) that he supports the idea but that the courts need to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal immigration was also in the waters Brown paddled through on two bills related to the seizure of vehicles at police checkpoints -- seizures sometimes based on the fact that the driver is unlicensed, which often means an undocumented immigrant. The governor signed into law \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 353\u003c/a>, which bans checkpoints set up for vehicle inspections. But a bill that went further -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 1389\u003c/a>, which would have tightened the rules even for sobriety checkpoints -- was vetoed (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1389_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), although backers of the bill \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">said\u003c/a> it would have addressed pretty much the same issue(s) as AB 353. \"This bill is far too restrictive on local law enforcement,\" said Brown in his veto message of AB 1389.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Brown paddled his way between sticky worker rights issues, signing into law a \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">strengthening of the state's employment leave for the birth of a child\u003c/a>, but vetoing a proposal requiring employers to give a leave of absence for the death of a worker's family member (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when handing a victory to government reform groups with the signing of a law requiring a three year state budget plan, the Guv smacked the same groups for their push to enshrine \"performance based budgeting\" into state law, writing in his veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The politically expedient course would be to sign this bill and bask in the pretense that it is some panacea for our budget woes. But the hard truth is that this bill will mandate thousands of hours of work -- at the cost of tens of millions of dollars -- with little chance of actual improvement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When the governor did paddle one way more decidedly than the other, it was toward the Democratic side of the lake. Brown signed the internationally buzzed about \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">AB 376\u003c/a>, banning most possessions and sale of shark fins. And on Sunday, he signed \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">SB 946\u003c/a>, a bill mandating health insurers cover behavioral treatment for autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Governor Brown signed many more bills than he vetoed in 2011, even though he'd \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">promised to reject \"a lot of bills\"\u003c/a> by the time the dust settled. As of late Sunday night, the governor appeared* to have signed 464 bills, vetoed 88, and allowed at least one to become law without his signature; that's a veto rate of about 16%. By comparison, a look at press releases from 2010 show former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed about 27% of that year's legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his veto rate may have been lower than that of his predecessor (who was, after all, a GOP governor dealing with largely Democratic bills), Brown nonetheless made no secret of his frustration that so many proposals were sent to him on topics that he sees as less than mission critical. \"Not every human problem needs a law,\" the governor groused to reporters in mid September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every ratified legislative proposal does ultimately need an up-or-down vote from the guy in charge, a paddle stroke one way or the other. And Jerry Brown seemed to be showing in these last few weeks of decisions that, now 40+ years into his political odyssey, he still wants to position his canoe somewhere between two river banks filled with warring politicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*The governor's office had not responded to a request for final bill tallies at the time of this posting. I'll update the numbers should they become confirmed. --JM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand for Governor Jerry Brown's philosophy of governance and politics. And yet Brown's self-described \"canoe theory\" seems to have stood the test of time, with his paddling skills put to the test this past week navigating Capitol waters thick with hundreds of pieces of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the paddle has been laid down, as has the signing pen, giving the public the chance to gauge whether Brown's path was straight or wildly off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42437\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownlatest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Guv's analogy -- that in politics, like in canoeing, one must paddle a little on the left and a little on the right to successfully go in a straight line -- is one he coined early in his second term as chief executive (\u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19790720&id=Hf8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4332,2567580\">writer Richard Reeves noted in 1979 that the Guv made the comment to a YMCA group\u003c/a>). The \"canoe theory\" has followed Jerry Brown through the years -- used derisively at times (as Reeves did in 1979), while in other instances cited as evidence of his finely tuned political sensibilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the final decisions announced late Sunday night on scores of bills, Brown's \"canoe theory\" seems especially useful. The governor finds himself in a statehouse where, more than his previous two terms, powerful political interests are pushing hard on his paddle. Very few of these groups see any value in a course other than the one they've plotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cases on the 2011 bill watch, Governor Brown paddled his way left... then right... on issues that, at a macro level, don't appear all that different. One example: his decision to sign into law a ban on teens under the age of 18 from using tanning beds \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_746_bill_20110906_enrolled.html\"> and his decision to allow some girls in the same age range to get vaccinations for the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) without parental consent\u003c/a>. On one hand, the two laws suggest contradictory standards for teens to control (or not) their own lives; on the other, Brown's logic could be seen as consistent if it's believed the state must step in to help protect the health of some minors. But then that is tough to square with the bill Brown squashed \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/07/browns-veto-messages-simple-philosophical/#more-10066\">last month\u003c/a> requiring helmets for snow skiing kids -- with the governor notably saying in that veto message, \"I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considerable attention has been paid to the fate of bills either loved or hated by organized labor, and rightly so. As the strongest supporter of the Capitol's majority party, the wishes of public employee unions usually carry weight. Brown clearly paddled these last few days both toward... and then away... from his union supporters. Even so, whether those were strokes of equal strength remains up for debate. The governor vetoed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_101_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 101\u003c/a>, a bill that would have allowed in-home child care workers to join the union ranks. His veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_101_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) blamed it on the state's budget woes -- a nod to the reality that state funding of child care programs is easier to cut if it's not under the umbrella of government services protected by labor's political muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown elsewhere steered towards his union allies, ostensibly in the name of good government, by signing the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/09/09/good-government-or-political-power-play/\">politically explosive SB 202\u003c/a>. The bill, easily a candidate for Most Notable Late Night Bloomer in the Legislature's final hours, states that initiative measures (both those in circulation now and those forever more) can only appear on November general election ballots. In his signing message (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_0202_Signing_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), the governor praised the bill's effort to get initiatives in front of the most voters possible, as well as the bill's two year delay of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/aca_4_bill_20101013_chaptered.html\">legislative ballot measure\u003c/a> buffing up the state's budget reserve fund (Brown and others said the state can't afford that kind of cash stash right now, while one \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2011/10/08/jerry-brown-let-the-people-decide-sometimes-too-late/\">conservative columnist called the Guv\u003c/a> to task for no longer trusting the voters to make the right call). But political watchers know that SB 202's most short-term practical effect would be the delay of a likely June 2012 initiative to limit union political spending -- a delay that would place the measure onto the November 2012 ballot, where union-friendly Democrats will turn out in large numbers to vote for President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Republicans know this too, which is why a top GOP attorney \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/KQED_CapNotes/status/122462497113505793\">filed a proposed referendum\u003c/a> to overturn SB 202 within hours of Brown's signing of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deep divisions between the labor and business communities were seen in several of Governor Brown's final paddle strokes on Sunday night. He paddled towards big business in vetoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">SB 469\u003c/a>, requiring economic impact reports before big box stores can be built (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_469_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">PDF\u003c/a>), and in his veto (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_931_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>) of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_931_bill_20110914_enrolled.html\">SB 931\u003c/a>, which would have established new rules for companies that pay workers with \"\u003ca href=\"http://calitics.com/diary/13919/payroll-debit-cards-less-choice-lower-wages\">payroll debit cards\u003c/a>.\" Both were big blows to unions. However, Brown then paddled towards the unions with the signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_22_bill_20110920_enrolled.html\">AB 22\u003c/a>, which bans employers in most circumstances from running credit reports on job applicants, and by signing \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_183_bill_20110919_enrolled.html\">AB 183\u003c/a>, which bans self-serve kiosks in supermarkets from being used to buy alcohol. Both were strongly opposed by the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More careful paddling through murky waters can be found in Brown's handling of racial politics on college campuses. He signed the much-talked about plan to give \u003ca href=\"http://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17268\">undocumented students full access to financial aid\u003c/a>, but vetoed a Democratic plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_185_bill_20110902_enrolled.html\">allow using race, ethnicity, or gender in admissions\u003c/a>. On the latter bill, Brown said (PDF) that he supports the idea but that the courts need to resolve the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illegal immigration was also in the waters Brown paddled through on two bills related to the seizure of vehicles at police checkpoints -- seizures sometimes based on the fact that the driver is unlicensed, which often means an undocumented immigrant. The governor signed into law \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 353\u003c/a>, which bans checkpoints set up for vehicle inspections. But a bill that went further -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_353_bill_20110908_enrolled.html\">AB 1389\u003c/a>, which would have tightened the rules even for sobriety checkpoints -- was vetoed (\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1389_Veto_Message.pdf\">PDF\u003c/a>), although backers of the bill \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">said\u003c/a> it would have addressed pretty much the same issue(s) as AB 353. \"This bill is far too restrictive on local law enforcement,\" said Brown in his veto message of AB 1389.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Brown paddled his way between sticky worker rights issues, signing into law a \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">strengthening of the state's employment leave for the birth of a child\u003c/a>, but vetoing a proposal requiring employers to give a leave of absence for the death of a worker's family member (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when handing a victory to government reform groups with the signing of a law requiring a three year state budget plan, the Guv smacked the same groups for their push to enshrine \"performance based budgeting\" into state law, writing in his veto message (\u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">PDF\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The politically expedient course would be to sign this bill and bask in the pretense that it is some panacea for our budget woes. But the hard truth is that this bill will mandate thousands of hours of work -- at the cost of tens of millions of dollars -- with little chance of actual improvement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When the governor did paddle one way more decidedly than the other, it was toward the Democratic side of the lake. Brown signed the internationally buzzed about \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">AB 376\u003c/a>, banning most possessions and sale of shark fins. And on Sunday, he signed \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">SB 946\u003c/a>, a bill mandating health insurers cover behavioral treatment for autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Governor Brown signed many more bills than he vetoed in 2011, even though he'd \u003ca href=\"http://judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ab-1389-sobriety-checkpoints-driving-while-undocumented-or-poor/\">promised to reject \"a lot of bills\"\u003c/a> by the time the dust settled. As of late Sunday night, the governor appeared* to have signed 464 bills, vetoed 88, and allowed at least one to become law without his signature; that's a veto rate of about 16%. By comparison, a look at press releases from 2010 show former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed about 27% of that year's legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his veto rate may have been lower than that of his predecessor (who was, after all, a GOP governor dealing with largely Democratic bills), Brown nonetheless made no secret of his frustration that so many proposals were sent to him on topics that he sees as less than mission critical. \"Not every human problem needs a law,\" the governor groused to reporters in mid September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every ratified legislative proposal does ultimately need an up-or-down vote from the guy in charge, a paddle stroke one way or the other. And Jerry Brown seemed to be showing in these last few weeks of decisions that, now 40+ years into his political odyssey, he still wants to position his canoe somewhere between two river banks filled with warring politicos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State Senator J.B. Sanford left no doubt where he stood on a controversial, possibly revolutionary, proposition that California voters, all men, were about to decide in a special election in the fall of 1911. \"Suffrage is not a right,\" Sanford wrote. \"...Politics is no place for a woman, consequently the privilege should not be granted to her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue before the voters: Proposition 4, granting the vote to California women. Sanford continued in \u003ca href=\"http://userpages.umbc.edu/~lindenme/hist441/anti-suffrage.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a ballot argument\u003c/a> urging a \"no\" vote: \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 171px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/suffrage1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/suffrage1-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Women's suffrage activists, 1911\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41532\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women's suffrage campaigners, 1911. Library of Congress Bain Collection. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The mother’s influence is needed in the home. She can do little good by gadding the streets and neglecting her children. Let her teach her daughters that modesty, patience, and gentleness are the charms of a women. Let her teach her sons that an honest conscience is every man’s first political law; that no splendor can rob him nor no force justify the surrender of the simplest right of a free and independent citizen. The mothers of this country can shape the destinies of the nation by keeping in their places and attending to those duties that God Almighty intended for them. The kindly, gentle influence of the mother in the home and the dignified influence of the teacher in the school will far outweigh all the influence of all the mannish female politicians on earth.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sanford's appeals to the comforts of hearth and home didn't stop Proposition 4 from passing when the guys went to the polls on October 10, 1911. But it was a close thing. As \u003ca href=\"http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/10/10/october-10-1911-a-suffrage-cliffhanger-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">a Ms. magazine blog recounted\u003c/a> last year, the \"no\" vote appeared to be so lopsided that women's suffrage leaders assumed they had lost and began to gear up for a new campaign. San Francisco voted overwhelmingly against suffrage, and in the Bay Area only Berkeley voted \"yes.\" But then the tide turned:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"As rural votes results trickled in [Wednesday, the day after the election], the election began to look more like a cliffhanger than a disaster for women’s suffrage. ... In Southern California, Los Angeles went pro-suffrage, but only by a margin of 1,787 votes. ... The measure squeaked by in San Diego County, despite only one of the area’s 16 papers in favor. 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Even fewer cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will likely be the reality for San Jose residents next summer if city officials don’t raise taxes or trim employee pensions and perks, city administrators told San Jose’s elected leaders Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t take much reading of the news these days to realize what a dearth of dollars persists in local, state, and federal government. But as sky-is-falling scenarios are frequently advanced on both sides of any political issue, you always wonder just how much currency to give particularly bleak narratives like the one purveyed here. Further down in the Merc article, for example, you get this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he early budget look was also a strategic move by Mayor Chuck Reed to shore up support for his controversial pension reform proposals — which he says are critical in preventing San Jose from sliding into “service-level insolvency.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So I asked longtime San Jose political reporter Janice Rombeck, editor and publisher of KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsjdev.com/\">\u003cstrong>NeighborWebSJ\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, just how seriously she was taking the dire predictions of severe cuts for fiscal year 2012-13 that are even more dire than those already enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very seriously, it turns out… \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an edited transcript of my interview with her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What happened at the City Council meeting Tuesday?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city budget director painted three pretty grim scenarios. The first was if no new revenue comes in and if the fiscal reforms that Mayor Chuck Reed has proposed don’t get enacted. This is what the city is facing under that scenario: all libraries closed, all community centers closed or leased out to private directors, more police officers cut, no improvement done to city streets, maintenance and parks outsourced or just not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Deb Figone said “this is no way to run a city of a million people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">There was a push to sound the alarm and let people know this is for real, this is not political posturing.\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Is this just political posturing or do these numbers really add up? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the numbers are real.This is much earlier than they usually start on budget projections. I think it’s because the outlook is grim, but also because they want support for these fiscal reforms, including the reduction of pension costs, the main expense that is driving these deficits. And they want to go to the ballot box probably not in June but maybe November 2012, to get a city charter change so that they can reduce pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If they get these pension reforms, the draconian cuts need not take place? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There probably will still be cuts in the short term because some of these cost savings won’t be realized until later on, but it won’t be as dramatic as portrayed in scenario 1. But the city is still facing cuts beyond what we’ve had here before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the status of Reed’s pension reform plan? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The city has run out of options.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of it still needs to be negotiated with the 11 unions that make up city employees. That will be the difficult part. The ballot measure will allow the city to impose reductions in benefits if it can’t be negotiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut benefits and salaries of city employees by 10% last year, to help close the deficit in the current budget. But the Police Officers Association has filed a complaint. They want the cut to be for just one year; the city wants the cuts to be ongoing. That’s in arbitration right now, and it could be devastating to the budget if the arbitrator comes back and says the city can’t impose it again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does the public feel about pension reform?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public is supportive of pension reform. But there was a lot of discussion at the council meeting about the public not understanding the reality of what the city is facing, and among some of the councilmembers there was a push to sound the alarm and let people know this is for real, this is not political posturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been pushback from some parts of the community who say the numbers are wrong, the actuarials are wrong, and the pension estimates and the costs are wrong. Independent auditors and insurance experts have said that’s not true, these costs are going to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>It used to be journalists were kind of skeptical about early projections…That’s not the case anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has run out of options. They don’t’ feel they can cut any more employees and continue to run the government and city services. They are going to try to increase the sales tax; they just passed a medicinal marijuana ordinance that will bring in additional revenue, maybe a couple of million dollars. They’re looking under every nook and cranny. But it’s just not popular to raise taxes in a recessionary economy in which people are hurting and out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the other result of this is that residents are going to have to do a lot more that they have been relying on the city to do. Graffiti removal is one — the city relies on volunteers to do that. It’s not going to be business as usual in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that journalists were kind of skeptical about early projections. There always seemed to be a little bit of crying wolf. Then when budget time came around they’d come up with the money. But I don’t see that; that’s not the case anymore. These are real numbers and real tough decisions that are going to have to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve already seen it in this current budget: the anti-gang task force, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongneighborhoods.org/\">Strong Neighborhoods\u003c/a> initiative, anti-graffiti and anti-litter programs that are nationally known and have been held up as models for providing city services have been decimated or at least drastically cut. 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