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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update June 21:\u003c/em> The answer is \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/21/controller-john-chiang-halts-california-legislator-pay/\">yes\u003c/a>.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the legislature slipped Governor Jerry Brown a \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_18281486\">budget\u003c/a> just under the wire, lawmakers thought they had met the requirement under Proposition 25 to keep getting paid. That law, passed by voters in November, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegonewsroom.org/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43642:prop-25-poised-to-take-a-bite-out-of-state-lawmakers-paychecks-and-rightly-so&catid=55:legislative&Itemid=40\">withholds legislator pay\u003c/a> for every day after the June 15 constitutional deadline that there is no budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But complications have arisen, as they say. Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_18289420\">vetoed\u003c/a> the budget, citing a surfeit of \"gimmicks\" -- questionable accounting maneuvers that eliminate the deficit on paper but in the real world... maybe not so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/17/3707359/dan-walters-if-california-legislators.html\">op-ed writers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/18/3709706/anti-tax-group-threatens-lawsuit.html\">interest groups\u003c/a> are calling for the guy who issues the checks, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sco.ca.gov/\">state controller John Chiang\u003c/a>, to stop paying the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will he or won't he? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following interview KQED's John Myers breaks down the issues for us. 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The question is whether that initial calculation is realistic or not. \u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay31.mp3\">\u003cem>Is this a predicament or an opportunity for Controller John Chiang?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay31.mp3|titles=myerspay3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Editorials and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are calling for Chiang to withhold lawmakers' salaries. But legislators believe they have met the requirement to submit an on-time budget and should keep receiving their salaries. Though Chiang is squarely in the middle of this debate, there's a good chance that it will end up in court no matter what he decides.\n \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay41.mp3\">\u003cem>How much of a factor was the pay issue in getting the legislature to submit an on-time budget?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay41.mp3|titles=myerspay4]\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>A lot of people believe the budget submitted just under the deadline was motivated by the pay issue, but that may be overstating it, Myers says. As much as anything, Democrats were mindful that this was the first year they were able to pass a budget with a simple majority vote, and they were thinking in terms of public perception. Still, a lot of legislators are not wealthy people and they do want to get paid.\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind: The amount of money at stake, ab out $50,000 per day, is really symbolic when weighed against the overall annual budget of $113 billion. But the issue is politically powerful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay5.mp3\">\u003cem>If their pay is withheld, can they ever get it back?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/myerspay5.mp3|titles=myerspay5]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>Nope. California is now the only state that would basically dock legislators' pay. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31207\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 237px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/jerrybrownSOSaddress1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/jerrybrownSOSaddress1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownSOSaddress\" width=\"237\" height=\"156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31207\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Veto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/16/BAP21JUS28.DTL\">vetoed\u003c/a> the budget that was sent to him by his own party, saying it \"continues big deficits... and adds billions of dollars of new debt. It also contains legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings. Finally, it is not financeable and (will) not allow us to meet our obligations as they occur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/16/report-brown-to-veto-budget/#veto\">Video of Brown's veto message\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/16/report-brown-to-veto-budget/#audiobrown\">Audio and edited transcript of Brown's afternoon press conference\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/16/report-brown-to-veto-budget/#dems\">Remarks by Dem leaders criticizing Brown\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_pressrel_10073.html\">Controller John Chiang on whether legislators met requirements under Prop 25 to keep getting paid\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/statement_1465.htm\">Republican response\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Running commentary on the day's events by KQED's John Myers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"audiobrown\">\u003cem>Update 2:25 p.m.\u003c/em> Audio of Brown's presser. He laid the blame for the impasse squarely on Republicans, and didn't remark on the strong criticism of the veto by Democratic leaders earlier in the day. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/BrownPresserLA.mp3\">\u003cem>Jerry Brown's remarks on his budget veto today\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/BrownPresserLA.mp3|titles=BrownPresserLA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of what he said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Democrats made tough cuts to public schools, welfare, medical. They \"held their nose and made cuts.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many Republicans said \"we're not voting on this, this is your problem but we don't need to vote.' Well they do need to vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need four Republican votes. I'm going to do everything I can. I'll move heaven and earth to get those votes. Because we really need a solution not for six months, but a solution for the next several years. And that's what my balanced budget solution really offered. So there's where we are, and going forward I think we can get it done. it may not be perfect, but I know we can do better than what was presented to me this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people have a very hard time cutting our public schools and rightfully so. And they have a hard time cutting our public universities and rightfully so. If a handful of Republicans will not vote to let the people exercise their sovereign right to say yes on tax extensions or no, then we're in a much more difficult place. And the deeper cuts to schools and the universities, it's going to be on their hands, bec the key to a balanced budget solution rests not with the Democrats but under the constitution rests with the Republicans who can alone constitute a 2/3 majority vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot continue to engage in obfuscation and not face the music. It's not a decision I make lightly or insensitive to the pressures on legislators. But the fact is California has been living beyond its means for the better part of a decade. We now have to readjust what it is we spend with what it is the taxpayers give us. And it's not pretty, it's not pleasant, but I got elected at this stage of my life not to evade and not to delay… I think the veto will actually help add pressure to make tougher cuts or hopefully to encourage Republicans to let the people exercise their right which is theirs to vote yes or no on tax extensions.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also: From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_pressrel_10073.html\">Controller John Chiang\u003c/a> on the legislator pay issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I will move quickly to complete our analysis of whether the budget bills passed Wednesday meet the constitutional definition, or fall short, which would require my office to forfeit their pay under Proposition 25. We are awaiting the final budget bill language before we begin our examination. In addition, we have asked the Department of Finance, which tracks and tallies the Legislature's budget activities, for data to inform our decision.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:35 p.m.\u003c/em> Only report I could find so far on Brown's press conference is this short note from \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/brown-says-he-will-continue-push-for-tax-extensions-in-budget.html\">Bloomberg\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Governor Jerry Brown said he hopes to persuade Republican lawmakers to support his tax- extension plan after vetoing a budget the Democrat-controlled Legislature sent to him yesterday that lacked the proposal. “I’m going to talk to each of those Republicans for the 10th time, for the 15th time,” Brown said today at a news conference at his office in Los Angeles. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:30 p.m.\u003c/em> The Mercury News editorial board \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_18290934\">likes Brown's veto\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"dems\">\u003cem>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/em> Senate Pro Tem Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Perez speaker at a press conference about Brown's veto. They were not happy with the governor by any stretch of the imagination. Some of their comments in paraphrase below. Brown is scheduled to hold a press conference in L.A. sometime soon. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Yesterday's ' budget was the best hope California had for economic recovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are very proud of the work we did with limited resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand by the actions we took.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Quite frankly his action is dismaying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see the votes for something that does cuts beyond the level that we did yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He hasn't been proven to be successful in getting Republican votes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fair is fair... I heard from the Chief Justice of California that the cuts we made to the court make it difficult for people to have access to the courts.... The governor is really getting caught up and a little bit confused between total victory, which in this process can not be achieved in one year, and progress. We made between 60% and 2/3 dent in structural deficit in Calif. What's wrong with declaring partial victory, and then finishing the work?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We support getting his plan done and getting GOP votes. But now he has got to articulate what the alternative is with specificity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The action today was completely unnecessary....But the guv seems completely determined to pass his original plan A. We support Plan A. But if he can't, nothing before us is visibly an option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We clearly met the obligation to pass a balanced, on-time budget\" (talking about the legislator pay issue).\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nPretty remarkable; it starts with Brown scrawling his signature on what is presumed to be a \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_69_and_AB_98_Veto_Message_6-16-11.pdf\">veto letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"veto\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/L7dHqjhJz8k\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a transcript of his video message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today I have vetoed the California state budget. I do so reluctantly but with clear purpose. For a decade the can has been kicked down the road and debt has piled up. In January I presented a balanced budget solution of deep spending cuts and a proposal to let the people of California vote on whether to extend some taxes on a temporary basis. Unfortunately the Republicans said no; they didn’t want the people of California to have that right to vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats on the other hand made some very deep cuts. And in the budget that I receive today there was more positive work. Unfortunately it doesn’t go far enough. California is facing a fiscal crisis and very strong medicine must be taken. So I am vetoing today because I don’t want to see more billions in borrowing, legal maneuvers that are questionable, and a budget that will not stand the test of time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here's Brown's written message at the bottom of the YouTube video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am returning Senate Bill 69 and Assembly Bill 98 without my signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, I presented a balanced budget solution with a mix of deep spending cuts and temporary tax extensions subject to voter approval. My plan would put these extended revenues in a lockbox, ensuring that they are only used to protect education and public safety. It would also address California's long term fiscal crisis by substantially paying down the $35 billion wall of debt built up over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Republicans in the Legislature blocked the right of the people to vote on this honest, balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats in the Legislature made valiant efforts to address California's budget crisis by enacting $11 billion in painful cuts and other solutions. I commend them for their tremendous efforts to balance the budget in the absence of Republican cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the budget I have received is not a balanced solution. It continues big deficits for years to come and adds billions of dollars of new debt. It also contains legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings. Finally, it is not financeable and therefore will not allow us to meet our obligations as they occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can -- and must -- do better. A balanced budget is critical to our economic recovery. I am, once again, calling on Republicans to allow the people of California to vote on tax extensions for a balanced budget and significant reforms. They should also join Democrats in supporting job creation and ending tax breaks for out-of-state companies. If they continue to obstruct a vote, we will be forced to pursue deeper and more destructive cuts to schools and public safety-- a tragedy for which Republicans will bear full responsibility.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In March, Brown said this at an appearance before the Budget Conference Committee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I want to make one thing clear, and that's another reason I came here. If we don't get the tax extensions, I am not going to sign a budget that is not an all-cuts budget. And it's going to be turbulent... It's either the tax extensions and the 12 billion or its 25 billion or as close to that as we're gonna get. And then if we can't do that, then maybe we don't get a budget and we just sit here and wrangle.... (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/what-does-jerry-browns-threat-about-an-all-cuts-budget-mean-john-myers-explains/\">Audio here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Looks like he meant it...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/ul>\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of what he said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Democrats made tough cuts to public schools, welfare, medical. They \"held their nose and made cuts.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many Republicans said \"we're not voting on this, this is your problem but we don't need to vote.' Well they do need to vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need four Republican votes. I'm going to do everything I can. I'll move heaven and earth to get those votes. Because we really need a solution not for six months, but a solution for the next several years. And that's what my balanced budget solution really offered. So there's where we are, and going forward I think we can get it done. it may not be perfect, but I know we can do better than what was presented to me this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people have a very hard time cutting our public schools and rightfully so. And they have a hard time cutting our public universities and rightfully so. If a handful of Republicans will not vote to let the people exercise their sovereign right to say yes on tax extensions or no, then we're in a much more difficult place. And the deeper cuts to schools and the universities, it's going to be on their hands, bec the key to a balanced budget solution rests not with the Democrats but under the constitution rests with the Republicans who can alone constitute a 2/3 majority vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot continue to engage in obfuscation and not face the music. It's not a decision I make lightly or insensitive to the pressures on legislators. But the fact is California has been living beyond its means for the better part of a decade. We now have to readjust what it is we spend with what it is the taxpayers give us. And it's not pretty, it's not pleasant, but I got elected at this stage of my life not to evade and not to delay… I think the veto will actually help add pressure to make tougher cuts or hopefully to encourage Republicans to let the people exercise their right which is theirs to vote yes or no on tax extensions.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also: From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_pressrel_10073.html\">Controller John Chiang\u003c/a> on the legislator pay issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I will move quickly to complete our analysis of whether the budget bills passed Wednesday meet the constitutional definition, or fall short, which would require my office to forfeit their pay under Proposition 25. We are awaiting the final budget bill language before we begin our examination. In addition, we have asked the Department of Finance, which tracks and tallies the Legislature's budget activities, for data to inform our decision.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:35 p.m.\u003c/em> Only report I could find so far on Brown's press conference is this short note from \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/brown-says-he-will-continue-push-for-tax-extensions-in-budget.html\">Bloomberg\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Governor Jerry Brown said he hopes to persuade Republican lawmakers to support his tax- extension plan after vetoing a budget the Democrat-controlled Legislature sent to him yesterday that lacked the proposal. “I’m going to talk to each of those Republicans for the 10th time, for the 15th time,” Brown said today at a news conference at his office in Los Angeles. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:30 p.m.\u003c/em> The Mercury News editorial board \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_18290934\">likes Brown's veto\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"dems\">\u003cem>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/em> Senate Pro Tem Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Perez speaker at a press conference about Brown's veto. 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The governor is really getting caught up and a little bit confused between total victory, which in this process can not be achieved in one year, and progress. We made between 60% and 2/3 dent in structural deficit in Calif. What's wrong with declaring partial victory, and then finishing the work?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We support getting his plan done and getting GOP votes. But now he has got to articulate what the alternative is with specificity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The action today was completely unnecessary....But the guv seems completely determined to pass his original plan A. We support Plan A. But if he can't, nothing before us is visibly an option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We clearly met the obligation to pass a balanced, on-time budget\" (talking about the legislator pay issue).\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nPretty remarkable; it starts with Brown scrawling his signature on what is presumed to be a \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_69_and_AB_98_Veto_Message_6-16-11.pdf\">veto letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"veto\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/L7dHqjhJz8k\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a transcript of his video message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today I have vetoed the California state budget. I do so reluctantly but with clear purpose. For a decade the can has been kicked down the road and debt has piled up. In January I presented a balanced budget solution of deep spending cuts and a proposal to let the people of California vote on whether to extend some taxes on a temporary basis. Unfortunately the Republicans said no; they didn’t want the people of California to have that right to vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats on the other hand made some very deep cuts. And in the budget that I receive today there was more positive work. Unfortunately it doesn’t go far enough. California is facing a fiscal crisis and very strong medicine must be taken. So I am vetoing today because I don’t want to see more billions in borrowing, legal maneuvers that are questionable, and a budget that will not stand the test of time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here's Brown's written message at the bottom of the YouTube video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am returning Senate Bill 69 and Assembly Bill 98 without my signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, I presented a balanced budget solution with a mix of deep spending cuts and temporary tax extensions subject to voter approval. My plan would put these extended revenues in a lockbox, ensuring that they are only used to protect education and public safety. It would also address California's long term fiscal crisis by substantially paying down the $35 billion wall of debt built up over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Republicans in the Legislature blocked the right of the people to vote on this honest, balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats in the Legislature made valiant efforts to address California's budget crisis by enacting $11 billion in painful cuts and other solutions. I commend them for their tremendous efforts to balance the budget in the absence of Republican cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the budget I have received is not a balanced solution. It continues big deficits for years to come and adds billions of dollars of new debt. It also contains legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings. Finally, it is not financeable and therefore will not allow us to meet our obligations as they occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can -- and must -- do better. A balanced budget is critical to our economic recovery. I am, once again, calling on Republicans to allow the people of California to vote on tax extensions for a balanced budget and significant reforms. They should also join Democrats in supporting job creation and ending tax breaks for out-of-state companies. If they continue to obstruct a vote, we will be forced to pursue deeper and more destructive cuts to schools and public safety-- a tragedy for which Republicans will bear full responsibility.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In March, Brown said this at an appearance before the Budget Conference Committee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I want to make one thing clear, and that's another reason I came here. If we don't get the tax extensions, I am not going to sign a budget that is not an all-cuts budget. And it's going to be turbulent... It's either the tax extensions and the 12 billion or its 25 billion or as close to that as we're gonna get. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30725\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 166px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/johnrusso.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/johnrusso.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"johnrusso\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30725\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Russo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cy Musiker yesterday interviewed new Alameda City Manager/old \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/bios/j_russo_long.html\">Oakland City Attorney\u003c/a> John Russo, who resigned that position after engaging in several public \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/02/25/oakland-tribune-city-attorney-russo-finalist-for-alameda-city-manager-position/\">disagreements\u003c/a> almost rising to feud-level with Mayor Jean Quan. 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Did it have to do with disagreements with Mayor Jean Quan? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Russo\u003c/em>: I've been in disagreement for at least the past two years because of the lack of leadership Oakland has exhibited in dealing with the twin crises of public safety and the clear degeneration into insolvency the city is experiencing. I don't see a lot of leadership in fixing that, and that's going to make my former colleagues angry; it made them angry behind closed doors when I told them that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new mayor came in, I found myself in a position where I was acting as city attorney of a government with which I had fundamental \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-02-08/bay-area/27107286_1_marijuana-farms-farm-ordinance-medical-marijuana-dispensaries\">legal disagreements\u003c/a> and essential moral differences. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I believe this is a morally corrupt government and I just didn't want to serve anymore in that capacity. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I believe that the city of Oakland has become, not legally, but I believe that the leadership of city hall, not the individuals, but overall, the whole leadership class if you will, I believe this is a morally corrupt government and I just didn't want to serve anymore in that capacity. If I'd been a city council member I could speak out in a real way about what I felt was morally wrong; as city attorney you have confidentiality bonds that bind you and prevent you from being able to speak out in a way that you could. And I really got to a point where I just felt that I didn't go into public service to help preside over what I believe has become a government that is not serving the people of Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cy Musiker\u003c/em>: Morally corrupt... I'll have to call Mayor Quan and Larry Reid and say these are John Russo's parting words...\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">You get to a point where it's almost as if the leaders of Oakland want to get on the back of a flatbed truck and just start throwing dollar bills out at people who are yelling at them. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>John Russo\u003c/em>: I don't say that any individual is morally corrupt, but I think the group, the dynamic that has developed between the mayor and the council, the dynamic between the staff and the elected leadership, the way that it is working right now, it is not a government that is serving the people of Oakland, and to me that is morally corrupt, yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have known for years that Oakland could not continue to operate in the manner it has. It cannot continue to run a government that is all things to all people. You get to a point where it's almost as if the leaders of Oakland want to get on the back of a flatbed truck and just start throwing dollar bills out at people who are yelling at them. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Core services in Oakland is any program that can deliver 50 angry people to the council chamber on a Tuesday night. That is not leadership. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The last three years, they've had this argument: We need to determine what are the core services of Oakland city government. They never come to a resolution on that argument. And I will define (it) for you now: Core services in Oakland is any program that can deliver 50 angry people to the council chamber on a Tuesday night. 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"content": "\u003cp>State Controller John Chiang announced this morning that he plans to withold the paychecks of state legislators, starting June 16, if the lawmakers haven't submitted a balanced budget to the governor. The real tough love? \"Payments forfeited will not be paid retroactively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_29544\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/johnchiang.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/johnchiang.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"johnchiang\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29544\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Controller John Chiang. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28314\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/scotus110523a.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/scotus110523a.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Holding cages, Salinas Valley State Prison \" width=\"243\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28314\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from today's Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leafing through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">84 pages of decision and dissents\u003c/a> from the U.S. Supreme Court today, the first sign you’re in unusual territory is the pictures. The majority opinion from Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy includes three images depicting conditions in California’s prisons. Two show generic scenes of overcrowding in a system that in 2006 was packed to 185 percent of its designed capacity. (One unforgettable portrait of the overflow conditions came from NPR’s Laura Sullivan in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92296114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2008 story on San Quentin\u003c/a>.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third image (right) shows cages used to confine some mentally disturbed prisoners. Here’s how the opinion describes them: “Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets. … A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had ‘no place to put him.’ ”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n(By the way: the use of images in U.S. Supreme Court opinions: rare but not unprecedented. For instance, see the 2003 opinion \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/04pdf/03-1500.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Orden v. Perry\u003c/a>, in which the court held that a display of the Ten Commandments on the Texas state capitol grounds did not violate the First Amendment’s \u003ca href=\"http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/establishment_clause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establishment clause\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court was divided 5-4 in today’s Brown v. Plata. But even that close result masks the bitterness of the split. The 84 pages comprise Kennedy’s majority opinion—joined by Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—and two dissents: one by Antonin Scalia (joined by Clarence Thomas) and one by Samuel Alito ( joined by Chief Justice John Roberts.) The dissents are incendiary, but more on that in a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority opinion may be read as a condemnation of inhumane conditions in California prisons and as a ringing defense of the notion that under our Constitution society owes those we imprison a basic measure of rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“As a consequence of their own actions, prisoners may be deprived of rights that are fundamental to liberty. Yet the law and the Constitution demand recognition of certain other rights. Prisoners retain the essence of human dignity inherent in all persons. Respect for that dignity animates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. ‘ “The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.” ‘ (Atkins v. Virginia 2002, Trop v. Dulles 1958.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To incarcerate, society takes from prisoners the means to provide for their own needs. Prisoners are dependent on the State for food, clothing, and necessary medical care. A prison’s failure to provide sustenance for inmates ‘may actually produce physical “torture or a lingering death.” ‘ (in Estelle v. Gamble 1976, in re Kemmler 1890). … Just as a prisoner may starve if not fed, he or she may suffer or die if not provided adequate medical care. A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in civilized society.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But today’s decision actually turns on something a little more mundane than the principles underlying the Eighth Amendment. The court’s charge was to adjudicate the California’s challenge to lower federal courts’ findings and prescriptions for the prison system under a 1996 law called the\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Boston_PLRA_Treatise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Prison Litigation Reform Act\u003c/a>, or PLRA. The law seeks to make it harder for prisoners to sue over the conditions of their incarceration and requires both inmates and the courts that hear their cases to jump through a series of hoops in seeking and granting remedies to situations like dangerously inadequate mental health care—the allegation that drove the original federal court case (now known as Coleman v. Brown et al.). For instance, inmates must show they’ve exhausted every available avenue for resolving a complaint inside prison—using the prison’s grievance procedures, say—before suing. The law also requires a special three-judge panel, rather than a single judge, to pass judgment on relief for prisoner lawsuits. In granting relief, a three-judge panel is required to come up with a sharply focused remedy to fix a constitutional violation. The panel must also give “substantial weight” to how its remedy will affect public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, California argued that the federal courts where the case began overstepped their bounds when they convened a three-judge district court panel to consider the issue of medical care in the prisons; and that the three-judge panel was wrong in its conclusion that overcrowding was the cause of poor medical care, that the conclusion was based on outdated information, and that the panel’s remedy—to require the state to reduce the prison population to 137.5 percent of capacity (about 46,000 inmates)—was far too sweeping and prescribed without due consideration for public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And again in short, the court majority rejected the state’s argument, flatly affirming the panel’s order to reduce the prison population—including a two-year deadline for meeting the inmate quota. The opinion comes with a long final section of advice to both the state and to the three-judge district court\u003cbr>\npanel on how to approach future handling of the case. In essence, the court tells the panel to be open to the state’s suggestions for complying with its order; the court notes the state has already made progress in reducing its inmate population and suggests it might apply to extend the deadline for complying to five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now to the dissents, which are remarkable for their predictions of a reign of terror if the court-ordered cut in prison populations is carried out. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia says that in affirming the lower court’s order, the majority is going along with “what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation’s history: an order requiring California to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia focuses much of his scorn on the opinion’s concluding passage. He calls it “a bizarre coda”—perhaps just a superfluous reminder to the three-judge district court panel that its order is subject to modification. Or perhaps something else:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I suspect … that this passage is a warning shot across the bow, telling the District Court that it had \u003cem>better\u003c/em> modify the injunction if the State requests what we invite it to request. Such a warning, if successful, would achieve the benefit of a marginal reduction in the inevitable murders, robberies, and rapes to be committed by the released inmates. … But perhaps I am being too unkind. … Perhaps the coda is nothing more than a ceremonial washing of the hands—making it clear for all to see, that if the terrible things sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order do happen, they will be none of this Court’s responsibility.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Beyond the vitriol, Scalia’s argument is that the lower court litigation failed to find any systemwide violation of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, that the majority has accepted a remedy far too broadly drawn to follow the dictates of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and that the decision continues a trend toward “structural injunctions” that involve judges in supervising social institutions. Getting back to the vitriol, Scalia says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It is also worth noting the peculiarity that the vast majority of inmates most generously rewarded by the release order—the 46,000 whose incarceration will be ended—do not form part of any aggrieved class even under the Court’s expansive notion of constitutional violation. Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental illness; and many will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Associate Justice Samuel Alito argues the lower courts failed to establish that overcrowding in California’s prisons violates the Eighth Amendment. He, too, is appalled at the order to reduce inmate populations: “The three-judge court ordered the premature release of approximately \u003cem>46,000 criminals—the equivalent of three Army divisions.”\u003c/em> (Emphasis in original). He says he’d reverse the lower court for three reasons: the three-judge failed to look at current conditions in the state’s prisons; the panel was wrong in ruling that the massive prisoner release is necessary to comply with the Eighth Amendment; and the panel failed to adequately consider the impact of the release on public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alito focuses mostly on that last point, saying that past attempts to reduce overcrowding by releasing inmates—even those found most likely to commit violent crimes—have been a failure. His view of what lies ahead here is dire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California. Before putting public safety at risk, every reasonable precaution should be taken. The decision below should be reversed, and the case should be remanded for this to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fear that today’s decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. 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