{"id":9073,"date":"2009-06-07T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-07T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T22:32:27","slug":"willie-brown-votes-arent-there-for-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/07\/willie-brown-votes-arent-there-for-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Brown: Votes aren&#8217;t there for taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some might say that Willie Brown was part of the system in the period where our government was functionally disabled, he does have a keen eye on these things.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not that the public won&#8217;t go for it &#8211; the problem is that the Legislature can&#8217;t put together the two-thirds vote needed to put something on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>I was up in Sacramento on Thursday, and it was clear from my meetings with Democratic lawmakers that while there may be the votes to add some new &#8220;fees,&#8221; taxes just are not in the equation. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/07\/BABA18187I.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">SF Chronicle 6\/7\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty much conventional wisdom at this point. The issue, it seems, is getting beyond conventional wisdom in Sacramento. &nbsp;Your guess is as good as mine on how that happens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some might say that Willie Brown was part of the system in the period where our government was functionally disabled, he does have a keen eye on these things.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not that the public won&#8217;t go for it &#8211; the problem is that the Legislature can&#8217;t put together the two-thirds vote needed to put something on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>I was up in Sacramento on Thursday, and it was clear from my meetings with Democratic lawmakers that while there may be the votes to add some new &#8220;fees,&#8221; taxes just are not in the equation. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/07\/BABA18187I.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">SF Chronicle 6\/7\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty much conventional wisdom at this point. The issue, it seems, is getting beyond conventional wisdom in Sacramento. &nbsp;Your guess is as good as mine on how that happens&#8230;<\/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":[117],"tags":[60,1002],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-60","tag-1002"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","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=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}