{"id":12925,"date":"2010-12-10T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-10T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T22:03:20","slug":"judge-state-building-sale-can-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/10\/judge-state-building-sale-can-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: State Building Sale Can Proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CapitolAlert, here&#8217;s the latest on the sale of the state buildings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard rejected a bid for a temporary restraining order by two former building officials who claimed the sale is illegal and a waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the sale said they will appeal the decision Monday, hoping to block escrow from closing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature last year approved selling properties statewide to raise money in the budget crisis, netting about $1.3 billion. Andrew W. Stroud, a lawyer representing Schwarzenegger, said lawmakers appropriately approved the transaction.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/judge-rules-sale-of-state-buil.html#ixzz17kEjhcjs\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The leaseback program is going to be a big net cost for the state, after all, it has to be for somebody to pay $1.3 billion for it. &nbsp;Frankly, the privatization of our state facilities is just a bad idea, in the short and long term. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a result of our failed political system to reach any sort of budget agreement that can be achieved without a slew of gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Brown hasn&#8217;t officially said whether he supports the sale of the buildings, but this just might drag on to his term if attorneys for the opponents of the sale can get a stay before next Wednesday. &nbsp;We&#8217;ll keep an eye on this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CapitolAlert, here&#8217;s the latest on the sale of the state buildings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard rejected a bid for a temporary restraining order by two former building officials who claimed the sale is illegal and a waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the sale said they will appeal the decision Monday, hoping to block escrow from closing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature last year approved selling properties statewide to raise money in the budget crisis, netting about $1.3 billion. Andrew W. Stroud, a lawyer representing Schwarzenegger, said lawmakers appropriately approved the transaction.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/judge-rules-sale-of-state-buil.html#ixzz17kEjhcjs\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The leaseback program is going to be a big net cost for the state, after all, it has to be for somebody to pay $1.3 billion for it. &nbsp;Frankly, the privatization of our state facilities is just a bad idea, in the short and long term. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a result of our failed political system to reach any sort of budget agreement that can be achieved without a slew of gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Brown hasn&#8217;t officially said whether he supports the sale of the buildings, but this just might drag on to his term if attorneys for the opponents of the sale can get a stay before next Wednesday. &nbsp;We&#8217;ll keep an eye on this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9511],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9511"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}