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* The Capitol Notes Podcast features an extended interview with Jerry Brown<\/a>. It’s certainly not geared for progressives, as he’s hitting on Whitman’s turf.<\/p>\n * And the Steve Poizner shift dramatically to the Right continues. He’s now reconsidered his support for changing the vote threshhold from 2\/3 to 55% for school bonds<\/a>. Apparently, the majority of the ELECTORATE cannot decide when to issue bonds, they need Howard Jarvis’ corpse to decide those decisions.<\/p>\n * CalBuzz is annoyed<\/a> that they went out and praised Poizner for his first stand on the the above bill, only to get the ol’ flipity-flopity. In other news, they are glad to see Jerry Brown’s eyebrow shaping.<\/p>\n * Karen Bass took some heat for handing out pay raises to 20 Assembly staff members<\/a>. But, honestly people, do legislative staff have to live under a situation where they can never be promoted? What kind of job situation is that? Would you want to work where you had no chance of promotion? All but a handful of these staffers made under $50,000. This isn’t gold-plated toilet seats we’re talking about, it’s people striving for achievement, something conservatives claim to respect.<\/p>\n * The LA Times did a profile of Speaker Perez<\/a>, focusing not on his work for the downtrodden, but for some of the more deep-pocketed types around the state. Look, in today’s political world, there is no purity any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Links:<\/p>\n * The Capitol Notes Podcast features an extended interview with Jerry Brown<\/a>. It’s certainly not geared for progressives, as he’s hitting on Whitman’s turf.<\/p>\n * And the Steve Poizner shift dramatically to the Right continues. He’s now reconsidered his support for changing the vote threshhold from 2\/3 to 55% for school bonds<\/a>. Apparently, the majority of the ELECTORATE cannot decide when to issue bonds, they need Howard Jarvis’ corpse to decide those decisions.<\/p>\n * CalBuzz is annoyed<\/a> that they went out and praised Poizner for his first stand on the the above bill, only to get the ol’ flipity-flopity. In other news, they are glad to see Jerry Brown’s eyebrow shaping.<\/p>\n