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But, in truth, it's more the beginning of the end for a different era ... a major one in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soon-to-end era began almost exactly 19 years ago after the elevation of only the third woman to lead the Legislature's lower house — coincidentally, with the selection of the first woman to be speaker, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Allen_(politician)\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Allen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 5, 1995, Allen became the first Republican speaker in almost a quarter century and the successor to the legendary speaker, Willie Brown. Voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Term_Limits,_Proposition_140_(1990)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 140 in 1990\u003c/a> — a system of term limits that capped service in the Assembly to six years and service in the state Senate to eight years. 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In effect, Willie Brown was still controlling the shots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen's speakership lasted all of 105 days, with Republicans wresting control from Brown and Democrats through much of the years 1995 and 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back to 2014: The ascension of Doris Allen was the beginning of the era of short-time Assembly speakers, one that now ends with Toni Atkins. The San Diego Democrat was first elected to the Assembly in 2010 and must leave office no later than the fall of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much turnover has there been in the last two decades? Consider this: Atkins is the eleventh speaker since that fateful June day in 1995. By contrast, in the previous 34 years, only five assemblymembers had held the title of speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so when Speaker Atkins was handed the gavel on Monday afternoon, you could almost hear the clock starting to tick. She'll have just about two years to make her mark on \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/speaker/news-room/press-releases/speaker-toni-atkins-inaugurated-in-capitol\" target=\"_blank\">issues she laid out in Monday's inaugural speech\u003c/a>, from veterans aid to affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins knows she must prioritize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think I can go all over the place,\" Atkins said at a news conference after the swearing-in ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Atkins may have very little time before the jockeying begins for who will come next. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS1369_IMG_1902-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS1369_IMG_1902-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, state Sen. Ed Hernandez authored a series of bills making it possible for California optometrists, pharmacists and nurse-practitioners to \u003ca href=\"http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-03-13-senator-hernandez-introduces-legislation-bridge-provider-gap\">expand the range of medical services they provide\u003c/a>. It would have allowed them to administer vaccines, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge capacity issue in the state of California,” the Los Angeles-area Democrat said. “And this is even pre-Affordable Care Act — only one-third of the counties meet the national average of primary-care physician-to-patient ratio.” He argued that giving more authority to optometrists and other professions would help more people get the treatment they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez would know — he’s a practicing optometrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s nothing wrong with putting forward a bill that would expand the scope of his business. And according to California’s conflict-of-interest laws, he’s absolutely right. The way the regulations are written, California lawmakers are free to vote on, or even write, measures that affect the fields in which they work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez pointed out that he’s taken votes that hurt his practice, like a 2011 measure cutting Medi-Cal payments to providers. “My wife, when I told her about it, she said, ‘Well, why’d you do that? You just cut our pay by 10 percent.’ I said, ‘Well, we had to. We had to balance the budget.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No One’s Declaring Conflicts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez and his optometry practice are just one example of a broad trend within California’s Legislature. The Assembly and Senate are filled with practicing lawyers, real estate agents and business executives of various sorts. Four in 10 legislators bring in some sort of outside income, according to disclosure forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Public officials are making decisions affecting millions, and sometimes billions, of dollars. We want to make sure they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And California’s law says they have a conflict of interest only if they vote on a measure that directly affects their own company or firm. There’s no problem if the bill helps, say, every other optometrist, too. That being the case, it’s been years since a legislator followed the ethics law’s protocols and formally declared a conflict. The Assembly clerk and Senate secretary’s offices can’t remember the last time it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since three Democrats were suspended from the Senate for legal problems, ethics have been front and center in Sacramento. Scores of new bills are being proposed, and legislative staffers have even been going through extra ethics training. But reining in outside income doesn’t appear to be on the reform agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because California’s conflict-of-interest guidelines \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/to-vote-or-not-to-vote.aspx\">are on par with other states\u003c/a>. Other full-time legislatures \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/18/12313/conflicts-interest-run-rampant-state-legislatures\">allow outside income, too\u003c/a>. And California lawmakers need to disclose all their outside income each year, in more detail than many states require.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern co-authored California’s Political Reform Act and worked as the top lawyer at the Fair Political Practices Commission. He said there’s a reason why the state requires officials to provide that information. “Public officials are making decisions affecting millions — and sometimes billions — of dollars. And we want to make sure that they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144680316&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said he’s satisfied with California’s current laws, but he’d like to see the state go a step further. He said the Legislature should follow the lead of Congress and the Los Angeles City Council, and ban members from holding any outside jobs. “Basically raise the pay to a pay that is commensurate to what they’re doing in office. And say, ‘That’s it,’ ” he said. “You have to be working full time for the public, and you cannot have any outside earned income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These second jobs have led to questions before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-01/news/mn-1225_1_willie-brown/2\">Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was criticized for earning millions of dollars in private law practice\u003c/a> and sometimes appointing clients to state boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top Democrat in the Senate today has worked for law firms, too. But President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he has bent over backwards to avoid conflicts, to the detriment of his practice. “It was very, very difficult because of the time demands on the job that I have. And also, you know, I’m very sensitive to conflicts. And the notion of marketing and that sort of thing, when you’re an elected official, is just very difficult to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of potential conflicts goes beyond legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/20/local/me-disclosure20\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire\u003c/a> for accepting a magazine consulting gig in 2005. That led to a bill to end these side jobs for statewide officeholders, but the legislation never went anywhere. In fact, Treasurer Bill Lockyer has done outside legal work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reform Groups Have Other Priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much of a problem is this? Most elected officials aren’t actually clocking in at second jobs — they’re earning income from businesses in which they have longtime ownership stakes. And lawmakers argue their outside jobs give them valuable perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t exactly a groundswell to change the current set-up. Although Bob Stern wants to eliminate outside jobs, he pointed out there are larger problems to fix first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are only a handful, or small percentage, of legislators who earn outside income that could be conflicts,” said Stern. “Almost every legislator earns campaign money from someone who wants something from government. And that, in my mind, is the bigger conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even if recent scandals do lead to ethics reforms in state government, don’t expect this issue to be on the agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That being the case, it’s been years since a legislator followed the ethics law’s protocols and formally declared a conflict. The Assembly clerk and Senate secretary’s offices can’t remember the last time it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since three Democrats were suspended from the Senate for legal problems, ethics have been front and center in Sacramento. Scores of new bills are being proposed, and legislative staffers have even been going through extra ethics training. But reining in outside income doesn’t appear to be on the reform agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because California’s conflict-of-interest guidelines \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/to-vote-or-not-to-vote.aspx\">are on par with other states\u003c/a>. Other full-time legislatures \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/18/12313/conflicts-interest-run-rampant-state-legislatures\">allow outside income, too\u003c/a>. And California lawmakers need to disclose all their outside income each year, in more detail than many states require.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern co-authored California’s Political Reform Act and worked as the top lawyer at the Fair Political Practices Commission. He said there’s a reason why the state requires officials to provide that information. “Public officials are making decisions affecting millions — and sometimes billions — of dollars. And we want to make sure that they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144680316&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said he’s satisfied with California’s current laws, but he’d like to see the state go a step further. He said the Legislature should follow the lead of Congress and the Los Angeles City Council, and ban members from holding any outside jobs. “Basically raise the pay to a pay that is commensurate to what they’re doing in office. And say, ‘That’s it,’ ” he said. “You have to be working full time for the public, and you cannot have any outside earned income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These second jobs have led to questions before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-01/news/mn-1225_1_willie-brown/2\">Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was criticized for earning millions of dollars in private law practice\u003c/a> and sometimes appointing clients to state boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top Democrat in the Senate today has worked for law firms, too. But President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he has bent over backwards to avoid conflicts, to the detriment of his practice. “It was very, very difficult because of the time demands on the job that I have. And also, you know, I’m very sensitive to conflicts. And the notion of marketing and that sort of thing, when you’re an elected official, is just very difficult to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of potential conflicts goes beyond legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/20/local/me-disclosure20\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire\u003c/a> for accepting a magazine consulting gig in 2005. That led to a bill to end these side jobs for statewide officeholders, but the legislation never went anywhere. In fact, Treasurer Bill Lockyer has done outside legal work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reform Groups Have Other Priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much of a problem is this? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Brekke and Bryan Goebel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126015 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8637_IMG_1261-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. 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We say it’s “kind of” official not to detract from the solemnity of the occasion but to acknowledge that: 1) many locals still don’t like the idea; 2) very few people use the last “official” new name hung on the bridge (more on that in the post below); and, 3) can anyone really doubt the span should be named after Emperor Norton, the person who first proposed it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown himself was proud of the honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is frankly an incredible achievement,” Brown told a crowd of more than 500 state and local officials during a ceremony on Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, two green bridge signs were placed on both sides of the western span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really an honor for African-Americans and for the African-American community,” Brown told reporters before the ceremony. “There’s nothing in the nation except the King holiday that has the universality of this bridge in terms of its carrying the name of an African American, nothing even close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Legislature approved a resolution by Assemblyman Isadore Hall to rename the bridge despite opposition from Governor Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said that under state rules, people must be dead before infrastructure projects are named after them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall fired back at opponents, praising Brown’s legacy as a civil rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need not think of this as a bridge named after Willie Brown. Anyone who knows him knows that Willie Brown Jr. is the bridge that makes the ends connect,” Hall said. “Is he alive? Yes he is. Is he well and kicking? Yes he is. Is he deserving of this bridge? Yes, he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters he wanted his case to serve as an example of how to thank people while they are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say `thank you’ after they’re dead is a little bizarre,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter how he wanted to respond to his enemies, who might look down on this day, Brown said: “I don’t really have any enemies. You know, in my world of politics an enemy is potentially a friend, if you play ‘em right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter: “What do you say to the naysayers who’ve been very critical, that you were the reason for the cost overruns, the delays…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown: “No, that’s the wrong part of the bridge. My bridge doesn’t have any leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how did the name come to be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve written about the naming before. It was accomplished last year through a legislative resolution that Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not like the idea, could not veto. Here’s some of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a September post\u003c/a> on the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. The suit (appended at the end of this post), which names the state and a host of legislative committees and individual lawmakers, essentially says the Legislature rammed through the renaming resolution against the will of local residents, violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planthold’s suit also notes the bridge has already been renamed once: in 1986, for Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph (though weirdly, the lawsuit refers to the late mayor as “James ‘Sunny’ Rudolph”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lawsuit brings up an alternative idea for renaming the bridge — one proposed a while back and which, ironically, is gaining new support because of the whole Willie Brown Bridge stink. “There is … an active effort to re-designate the Bay Bridge for Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton … widely credited as first conceiving of the Bay Bridge in a series of proclamations in 1872.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that “active effort”: \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/re-name-the-bay-bridge-the-emperor-norton-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Change.org petition\u003c/a> to the state. Several thousand people have signed up so far.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s Planthold’s lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Bob Planthold v. State of California et al., San Francisco, Jerry Brown, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/167951607/Bob-Planthold-v-State-of-California-et-al-San-Francisco-Jerry-Brown-San-Francisco-Oakland-Bay-Bridge\">Bob Planthold v. 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Is he well and kicking? Yes he is. Is he deserving of this bridge? Yes, he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters he wanted his case to serve as an example of how to thank people while they are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say `thank you’ after they’re dead is a little bizarre,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter how he wanted to respond to his enemies, who might look down on this day, Brown said: “I don’t really have any enemies. You know, in my world of politics an enemy is potentially a friend, if you play ‘em right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter: “What do you say to the naysayers who’ve been very critical, that you were the reason for the cost overruns, the delays…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown: “No, that’s the wrong part of the bridge. My bridge doesn’t have any leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how did the name come to be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve written about the naming before. It was accomplished last year through a legislative resolution that Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not like the idea, could not veto. Here’s some of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a September post\u003c/a> on the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. 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"content": "\u003cp>Immigration. Prison overcrowding. Hydraulic fracturing. The minimum wage. Those were just \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the major issues California lawmakers tackled during a frantic week of legislating in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/brownwhiffle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"brownwhiffle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As legislators passed bills in marathon sessions this week, Gov. Jerry Brown played some whiffle ball. (Governor’s Press Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2013 legislative session closed with a bang—more than 400 bills were sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Maybe that’s why the governor got some \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/378307237430558720/photo/1\">whiffle ball\u003c/a> action in yesterday—he’ll be too busy signing and vetoing bills the rest of the month to play.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the high-profile bills sent to Brown: a measure creating \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/california-sends-undocumented-immigrant-license-bill-to-gov-jerry-brown.html\">driver’s licenses \u003c/a>for undocumented immigrants; a bill increasing the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/californias-minimum-wage/\"> minimum wage\u003c/a> from $8 to $10; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/what-would-californias-fracking-bill-do/\">legislation regulating fracking\u003c/a>; a bill that would transition the state’s schools to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/110930/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new system of testing.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s public endorsements of three of those bills (on driver’s licenses, fracking, and the minimum wage), plus his opposition to a resolution \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\">renaming the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, illustrated how involved the governor was in wrangling votes this week. (When he wasn’t playing whiffle ball, that is.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made this year of how Democrats would use their huge majorities in both houses of the Legislature. The Senate and Assembly didn’t push through any tax increases this session, but Democrats did pass a slew of bills helping undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the driver’s license measure, bills on Brown’s desk would allow undocumented immigrants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/219177457/calif-gov-debates-changing-whos-eligible-for-jury-duty\">serve on juries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/bill-letting-undocumented-immigrants-practice-law-heads-to-governor.html\">practice law\u003c/a>. Another measure \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\">prohibits police\u003c/a> from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities unless the immigrants already have a violent felony on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed those bills at a time when immigration reform is deadlocked on the federal level. Another area where California is more aggressive than Congress: gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama’s efforts to tighten federal firearms laws went nowhere this year, but California lawmakers sent several \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-lawmakers-send-tough-gun-control-bills-to-the-governor-20130912,0,5610828.story\">gun-control bills\u003c/a> to the governor. This during a week when two Colorado state senators were \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-recall-elections-chill-push-gun-laws/story?id=20227650\">recalled\u003c/a> for voting for gun laws in a state that has experienced two infamous mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/13/midwifery-physical-therapy-pharmacists-bills-move-to-governors-desk-scope-of-practice/\">KQED’s State of Health\u003c/a> blog to learn about some of the health-related bills that advanced to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s more analysis from KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/thisweek/\">This Week in Northern California.\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/V9MoHtBLkPM?start=93\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigration. Prison overcrowding. Hydraulic fracturing. The minimum wage. Those were just \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the major issues California lawmakers tackled during a frantic week of legislating in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/brownwhiffle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"brownwhiffle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As legislators passed bills in marathon sessions this week, Gov. Jerry Brown played some whiffle ball. (Governor’s Press Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2013 legislative session closed with a bang—more than 400 bills were sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Maybe that’s why the governor got some \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/378307237430558720/photo/1\">whiffle ball\u003c/a> action in yesterday—he’ll be too busy signing and vetoing bills the rest of the month to play.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the high-profile bills sent to Brown: a measure creating \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/california-sends-undocumented-immigrant-license-bill-to-gov-jerry-brown.html\">driver’s licenses \u003c/a>for undocumented immigrants; a bill increasing the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/californias-minimum-wage/\"> minimum wage\u003c/a> from $8 to $10; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/what-would-californias-fracking-bill-do/\">legislation regulating fracking\u003c/a>; a bill that would transition the state’s schools to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/110930/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new system of testing.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s public endorsements of three of those bills (on driver’s licenses, fracking, and the minimum wage), plus his opposition to a resolution \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\">renaming the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, illustrated how involved the governor was in wrangling votes this week. (When he wasn’t playing whiffle ball, that is.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made this year of how Democrats would use their huge majorities in both houses of the Legislature. The Senate and Assembly didn’t push through any tax increases this session, but Democrats did pass a slew of bills helping undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the driver’s license measure, bills on Brown’s desk would allow undocumented immigrants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/219177457/calif-gov-debates-changing-whos-eligible-for-jury-duty\">serve on juries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/bill-letting-undocumented-immigrants-practice-law-heads-to-governor.html\">practice law\u003c/a>. Another measure \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\">prohibits police\u003c/a> from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities unless the immigrants already have a violent felony on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed those bills at a time when immigration reform is deadlocked on the federal level. Another area where California is more aggressive than Congress: gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama’s efforts to tighten federal firearms laws went nowhere this year, but California lawmakers sent several \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-lawmakers-send-tough-gun-control-bills-to-the-governor-20130912,0,5610828.story\">gun-control bills\u003c/a> to the governor. This during a week when two Colorado state senators were \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-recall-elections-chill-push-gun-laws/story?id=20227650\">recalled\u003c/a> for voting for gun laws in a state that has experienced two infamous mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/13/midwifery-physical-therapy-pharmacists-bills-move-to-governors-desk-scope-of-practice/\">KQED’s State of Health\u003c/a> blog to learn about some of the health-related bills that advanced to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s more analysis from KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/thisweek/\">This Week in Northern California.\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/V9MoHtBLkPM?start=93\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown/rs1330_baybridge_20101030-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS1330_baybridge_20101030-scr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The western span of the Bay Bridge, which the Legislature has voted to rename after former Assembly speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. (Lois Elling/ Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The western span of the Bay Bridge, which the Legislature has voted to rename after former Assembly speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. (Lois Elling/ Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. Here’s the show’s audio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. The suit (appended at the end of this post), which names the state and a host of legislative committees and individual lawmakers, essentially says the Legislature rammed through the renaming resolution against the will of local residents, violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planthold’s suit also notes the bridge has already been renamed once: in 1986, for Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph (though weirdly, the lawsuit refers to the late mayor as “James ‘Sunny’ Rudolph”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lawsuit brings up an alternative idea for renaming the bridge — one proposed a while back and which, ironically, is gaining new support because of the whole Willie Brown Bridge stink. “There is … an active effort to re-designate the Bay Bridge for Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton … widely credited as first conceiving of the Bay Bridge in a series of proclamations in 1872.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that “active effort”: \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/re-name-the-bay-bridge-the-emperor-norton-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Change.org petition\u003c/a> to the state. Several thousand people have signed up so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> KQED’s Mina Kim spoke with Corey Cook, who teaches politics at the University of San Francisco, about the plan. Cook said that while most people acknowledge Willie Brown’s importance in California politics and history, the reason it’s rubbing so many the wrong way comes down to: “Why this landmark, why at this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook noted that although Gov. Brown could try to block Caltrans funding for erecting new signs on the bridge, the renaming resolution passed with huge majorities. If the governor tries to block the signs, “presumably the Legislature could then pass a veto-proof law saying Caltrans will put up these signs,” Cook said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the full Cook interview:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F110299523\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s Planthold’s lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Bob Planthold v. 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RT@\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thewyatt\">thewyatt\u003c/a>: Lawmakers want to name Bay Bridge for Willie Brown \u003ca title=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawmakers-want-to-name-Bay-Bridge-for-Willie-Brown-4599233.php?cmpid=twitter\" href=\"http://t.co/20mQ1zh4xT\">sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…\u003c/a> h/t @\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers\">johnmyers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Project Cambio (@ProjectCambio) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ProjectCambio/status/345300194797158402\">June 13, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>It's hilariously appropriate 4 new Bay Bridge span that's $Billions over budget, still can't open b/c corruption, to be named 4 Willie Brown\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Brandon Combs (@combs_brandon) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/combs_brandon/status/345283766379487232\">June 13, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This won't be controversial at all: CA lawmakers push to name new Bay Bridge after Willie Brown \u003ca title=\"http://sacb.ee/11KPPRw\" href=\"http://t.co/4sD2ucR6Wk\">sacb.ee/11KPPRw\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23capolitics\">#capolitics\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Paul Rogers (@PaulRogersSJMN) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN/status/345283123401089024\">June 13, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>No thanks! 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71167\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 111px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/24877924@N00/100249301/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71167\" title=\"Willie_Brown_in_2006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/Willie_Brown_in_2006-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Brown in 2006 (sftreasurehunt/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to film criticism, Willie Brown is of a less-is-more mindset. His complete take on Wes Anderson's \u003cem>Moonrise Kingdom\u003c/em>, for instance, from one of his recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Governor-on-right-track-with-high-speed-rail-push-3690625.php\">San Francisco Chronicle columns\u003c/a>: \"This movie has been playing for a while, and for a very good reason. It's a winner.\" Mick LaSalle, you can give up your day job now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/23/willie-brown-washington-monthly/#interviews\">\u003cstrong>How powerful is Willie Brown? Interviews w/ Scott Shafer, Corey Cook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lack of movie-reviewing chops, however, may be the only incompetency with which Brown is afflicted. The latest issue of The Washington Monthly makes this plain in an article called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2012/features/the_power_broker038423.php\">\u003cstrong>The Power Broker\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\" which has been \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/07/sf-cognoscenti-buzz-over-article-about-willie-browns-influence.html\">making the local insider rounds\u003c/a>. The article's deck reads this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco’s ex-mayor Willie Brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweat—or running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients, or making anyone particularly mad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown...is possibly more powerful and certainly less controversial now than when he held public office. The ethics and criminal investigations that dogged his entire political career (no charges were ever filed) have been largely forgotten...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is now a private attorney under no obligation to disclose the identity of his clients or his interactions with the legion of public officials and others who owe their careers to him. (The most promising of these may be California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Brown’s onetime girlfriend.) Brown operates in a post-partisan, post-paper trail world in which he reaps the benefits of power while bearing none of the unpleasant culpability or scrutiny that typically comes with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no scandal here. Brown helped create the system that allows him to flourish now. And he plays that system like a born musician who rarely if ever hits a wrong note...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown’s power springs from his web of relationships and his intricate and strategic understanding, cultivated over six decades, of how politics in San Francisco and California is played.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now here's my interview with Corey Cook\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So how powerful is Willie Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>USF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't see the way it works today as a political machine in the classic sense; it's a different animal than that. Historically, oftentimes the power of the machine wasn't the mayor, it was the informal power of the boss. In some cities, the mayor and the boss were one and the same, like in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not a patronage machine in the same way, but certainly what he's been able to do is leverage the informal power that he has, which is considerable. It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now here's my interview with Corey Cook\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So how powerful is Willie Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>USF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't see the way it works today as a political machine in the classic sense; it's a different animal than that. Historically, oftentimes the power of the machine wasn't the mayor, it was the informal power of the boss. In some cities, the mayor and the boss were one and the same, like in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not a patronage machine in the same way, but certainly what he's been able to do is leverage the informal power that he has, which is considerable. It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matt Smith, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/mortgage-bailout-proposal-san-francisco/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and a longtime business partner are among investors in a company drawing criticism for working with local government officials to take over and discount underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69874\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The plan gained impetus last month, when officials in San Bernardino County formed a joint powers authority to consider a proposal from San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://mortgageresolutionpartners.com/\">Mortgage Resolution Partners\u003c/a> for local governments to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company would raise capital to buy the mortgages from lenders at their depressed market price, perhaps less than half their original value. It would then offer the existing homeowners a new mortgage at a value in between the two, preventing foreclosure and pocketing a profit in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy, which Berkeley real estate investor Bill Falik told The Bay Citizen he helped develop, is expected to generate profits of as much as 20 percent, according to an October pitch to potential funders. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Falik are among 12 founding investors in Mortgage Resolution Partners, according to company spokesman Peter Ragone. Though San Bernardino is the furthest along, the company hopes to partner with local governments across the country to use eminent domain as a tool in fighting blight, Ragone added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond investors, the real estate industry and the editorial pages of national newspapers have denounced the plan as a politically wired money grab, warning that lenders will shun areas where they face the threat of government seizure of their home loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New buyers would be unable to get new loans in those communities, they allege. House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. In that case, the key was persuading local officials to rezone Sacramento River floodplain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some successful investments, and we had some successes involving permits in Sacramento,” Falik said, adding that Brown was only one of 140 partners in those investments. “But I’m a very careful lawyer: I never met with Willie concerning one of my projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, owners of the homes built on that land, like thousands of other California homeowners, find their houses worth less than what they owe. Falik said that the new company, Mortgage Resolution Partners, would help local governments overcome problems preventing lenders from assisting such underwater borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many U.S. loans have been resold to investors as packages of mortgage-backed securities. These arrangements often prohibit loan discounting. In theory, an eminent domain seizure could override those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my business partners in Sacramento, and they say nothing is selling because there’s all this foreclosure overhang,” Falik said. “If you can keep people in their homes and give them a mortgage in some way where they can continue to pay, it would make a huge difference in terms of blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, a group of 18 financial services lobbying organizations, including the American Bankers Association and the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, sent a joint letter to five San Bernardino County-area officials denouncing Mortgage Resolution Partners’ eminent domain plan. The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. In January, Reuters reported that Mortgage Resolution Partners had sent a letter to potential investors saying the company would use “legal and political leverage” to purchase distressed mortgage, and that its founding executive chairman, Phil Angelides, “will be front-line center stage nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, expressing concern about “influence peddling” by prominent California politicians linked to Mortgage Resolution Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokesman Ragone, who served as communications director for former Gov. Gray Davis and press secretary for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, said in an email that Mortgage Resolution Partners’ use of the term “political leverage” has been misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The January memo was an “outdated presentation where we used that phrase to characterize the policy of using eminent domain,” Ragone wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falik said the initial sales pitch promising “legal and political leverage” has morphed into perfecting a legal strategy focused on allowing homeowners to remain in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think initially people were thinking about politics more, and obviously, Willie is politically connected and very savvy, and so is Phil,” Falik said. “But it became a reality that this is much more legal in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelides, a former California state treasurer who also headed the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has since left the company, replaced as chairman by venture capitalist and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Steven Gluckstern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Angelides and Gluckstern together pitched the eminent domain idea in a Jan. 31 conference call with San Bernardino County CEO Greg Devereaux, according to a copy of Devereaux’s calendar obtained by The Bay Citizen. In March, April and May Devereaux’s calendar noted scheduled phone calls with Mortgage Resolution Partners executives, including Falik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortgage Resolution Partners representatives mentioned during their conversations with him that Brown was an investor, said San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Devereaux would not “be influenced by any political clout Mr. Brown or Mr. Angelides are perceived to have in the Bay Area,” Wert said. “I think it could be agreed they have no such clout outside of the Bay Area and Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/\">www.baycitizen.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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House prices might drop further, increasing, rather than reducing, blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics also complain that their warnings are being ignored in Sacramento and Washington because the Mortgage Resolution Partners deal is backed by politically powerful individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragone characterized the criticism as the self-serving complaints of financiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the typical canard that Wall Street and its lobbyists used whenever they don’t support an innovative public policy,” he said in an email. “Loans will still be made and investors will still make returns. Capitalism will carry on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did not respond to telephone and email messages requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time Falik, with Brown as an investment partner, has pursued a strategy that hinged on controversial real estate decisions by municipal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the boom years of California’s real estate market, then-Assembly Speaker Brown was a partner in a series of Falik-run real estate partnerships that helped turn thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland into new housing developments. 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The proposal raises important “constitutional issues,” the letter said, suggesting the possibility of lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the major industry players on the critical letter’s masthead, opponents have had difficulties rallying politicians to their side, said Steve Manos, president of the Inland Valley Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our vantage point, bringing attention to this was difficult. There seemed to be a reluctance for some people to take up the fight, though this seemed to be an easy one,” Manos said. “You have serious influence coming from heavy hitters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have warned that political influence might play a role in Mortgage Resolution Partners’ strategy as well. In January, Reuters reported that Mortgage Resolution Partners had sent a letter to potential investors saying the company would use “legal and political leverage” to purchase distressed mortgage, and that its founding executive chairman, Phil Angelides, “will be front-line center stage nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., sent a letter to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, expressing concern about “influence peddling” by prominent California politicians linked to Mortgage Resolution Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokesman Ragone, who served as communications director for former Gov. Gray Davis and press secretary for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, said in an email that Mortgage Resolution Partners’ use of the term “political leverage” has been misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The January memo was an “outdated presentation where we used that phrase to characterize the policy of using eminent domain,” Ragone wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falik said the initial sales pitch promising “legal and political leverage” has morphed into perfecting a legal strategy focused on allowing homeowners to remain in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think initially people were thinking about politics more, and obviously, Willie is politically connected and very savvy, and so is Phil,” Falik said. “But it became a reality that this is much more legal in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelides, a former California state treasurer who also headed the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has since left the company, replaced as chairman by venture capitalist and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Steven Gluckstern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Angelides and Gluckstern together pitched the eminent domain idea in a Jan. 31 conference call with San Bernardino County CEO Greg Devereaux, according to a copy of Devereaux’s calendar obtained by The Bay Citizen. In March, April and May Devereaux’s calendar noted scheduled phone calls with Mortgage Resolution Partners executives, including Falik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortgage Resolution Partners representatives mentioned during their conversations with him that Brown was an investor, said San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Devereaux would not “be influenced by any political clout Mr. Brown or Mr. Angelides are perceived to have in the Bay Area,” Wert said. “I think it could be agreed they have no such clout outside of the Bay Area and Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The result was a proposal that could cost the cash-strapped city more than $17 million — a cost that even the city's fairly conservative economist Ted Egan told the Guardian isn't justified for many of the properties that were included in the proposal, particularly the large commercial office buildings along Market Street and the small businesses in the Tenderloin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2011/03/15/behind-tweets\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/2011/03/15/unregistered-lobbyist\">Unregistered lobbyist\u003c/a> (San Francisco Bay Guardian)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 2007 and 2008, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. paid former Mayor Willie Brown a total of $480,000 for consulting work. Since Brown has never been utility lawyer, it's almost certain that money has bought political advice and access. 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But in reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, Congress created a new visa that responded to the violence immigrants face. Domestic violence or sexual assault? Apply here. Robbery or attempted murder? Step right up. \"We have a sick sense of humor here in our office,\" says Fernanda Bustamante, an attorney on Lewis' team who handled Silva's case. \"Like, maybe we should just go tell them to get a job as a pizza deliveryman or walk around Fruitvale with a bunch of money in their hand — of course, that's just totally kidding.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-03-16/news/u-1-visa-illegal-immigrant-crime-victim-lauren-smiley/\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/the-great-shark-slaughter/Content?oid=2519696\">The Great Shark Slaughter\u003c/a> (East Bay Express)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...Opponents of the proposed (shark fin) ban say it represents an unfair attack on Chinese-American culture and cuisine. They also contend that sharks aren't just killed for their highly prized fins, but also for their meat. \"Costco sells shark meat,\" said Democratic state Senator Leland Yee at a press conference after the legislation was introduced. Yee, who is running for mayor of San Francisco, has come out strongly against a ban. \"So those sharks that come in — what are you going to do with that fin?\" But are sharks really being caught for their meat? And are shark fins just leftover byproducts that would otherwise be thrown away? According to numerous scientific studies and international trade statistics, the answer is a resounding \"no.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.metroactive.com/best-of-silicon-valley/2011/\">The Best of Silicon Valley 2011\u003c/a> (Metro Silicon Valley)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Spring's approach captures Silicon Valley's sunshine and optimism—the clear air, the seed planting, the lengthening days. Counterintuitively, we used to publish Metro's Best of Silicon Valley issue just as the damp, darkening days of winter clamped down during the greedy season of harvest and hunkering down, which didn't really fit our region's forward-looking ethos. So it was time for reinvention. That's why we moved the publication date from September to March. An issue that celebrates the good stuff around us is a good way to start the year off right. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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