\u2022 The President made a funny at the Radio and TV Correspondent’s Dinner about Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying that they were building a new reality show around him and the troubles in Sacramento called “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.” LOL.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Yay! Something positive about the budget. Well, sort of. Corporate tax revenues are up<\/a>. That’s good, but it is really only because a budget bill from last year SB 28 1X required corporations to frontload their annual tax payments in the first two quarters of the year.<\/p>\n \u2022 Following S&P’s watch report on California’s credit rating<\/a>, Moody’s has done the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Moody’s isn’t entirely sanguine about our budget mess<\/a> either, joining Standard and Poor’s by placing California on a credit watch list. <\/p>\n \u2022 The California State Parks Foundation<\/a> has had success with their recent action items<\/a>. They’ve sent over 125,000 letters in support of the state parks<\/a>. It really isn’t that surprising as state parks are commonly used by fairly politically aware people who were jolted into action by Arnold’s call to close most of the state parks. We mentioned it 3 weeks ago<\/a>, but if you haven’t done so, how about taking some action<\/a> for the parks? <\/p>\n \u2022 Shira Tarrant does not like the proposed cuts to the CSU<\/a>. Under the budget committee’s plan, CSU and UC take equal cuts to their budget.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Myers has a good wrap-up of some loose ends<\/a> about the Dems’ budget deal. Meanwhile, the California Budget Project did a side-by-side comparison<\/a> of the Dems’ budget and the Governor’s. Check it out.<\/p>\n \u2022 One area of success in the Prop 8 campaign? Asian-American votes swung in favor of marriage equality rapidly<\/a>. Asian-Americans supported the ban in Prop 22 in 2000 by a 36 point margin. In 2008, it was only a 6 point margin. There is a lot more work to be done in this community, but hopefully next time we’ll win this demographic.<\/p>\n \u2022 Is Placer County the new Orange County<\/a>?<\/p>\n \u2022 California leads the way in the edible garden movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 The President made a funny at the Radio and TV Correspondent’s Dinner about Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying that they were building a new reality show around him and the troubles in Sacramento called “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.” LOL.<\/p>\n \u2022 Yay! Something positive about the budget. Well, sort of. Corporate tax revenues are up<\/a>. That’s good, but it is really only because a budget bill from last year SB 28 1X required corporations to frontload their annual tax payments in the first two quarters of the year.<\/p>\n \u2022 Following S&P’s watch report on California’s credit rating<\/a>, Moody’s has done the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Moody’s isn’t entirely sanguine about our budget mess<\/a> either, joining Standard and Poor’s by placing California on a credit watch list. <\/p>\n \u2022 The California State Parks Foundation<\/a> has had success with their recent action items<\/a>. They’ve sent over 125,000 letters in support of the state parks<\/a>. It really isn’t that surprising as state parks are commonly used by fairly politically aware people who were jolted into action by Arnold’s call to close most of the state parks. We mentioned it 3 weeks ago<\/a>, but if you haven’t done so, how about taking some action<\/a> for the parks? <\/p>\n \u2022 Shira Tarrant does not like the proposed cuts to the CSU<\/a>. Under the budget committee’s plan, CSU and UC take equal cuts to their budget.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Myers has a good wrap-up of some loose ends<\/a> about the Dems’ budget deal. Meanwhile, the California Budget Project did a side-by-side comparison<\/a> of the Dems’ budget and the Governor’s. Check it out.<\/p>\n \u2022 One area of success in the Prop 8 campaign? Asian-American votes swung in favor of marriage equality rapidly<\/a>. Asian-Americans supported the ban in Prop 22 in 2000 by a 36 point margin. In 2008, it was only a 6 point margin. There is a lot more work to be done in this community, but hopefully next time we’ll win this demographic.<\/p>\n \u2022 Is Placer County the new Orange County<\/a>?<\/p>\n