{"id":9206,"date":"2009-06-25T02:10:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:10:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-25T02:10:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:10:56","slug":"nancy-skinners-constituents-say-less-cuts-more-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/nancy-skinners-constituents-say-less-cuts-more-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Skinner&#8217;s Constituents Say Less Cuts, More Revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. In coordination with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextten.org\/\">Next10 Budget Challenge<\/a>, Asm. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) has released <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.assembly.ca.gov\/members\/a14\/pdf\/BudgetSummitResults.pdf\">some data on how her constituents (PDF)<\/a> feel about the current budget crisis. Somewhat unsurprisingly, considering this is Berkeley, they think the Governor&#8217;s budget proposal is way off track. &nbsp;Some items of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>78% support balancing with a mix of cuts and revenues<\/li>\n<li>55% support <strong>increasing<\/strong> education funding, while only 19% support cutting K12 funding.<\/li>\n<li><b>94%<\/b> support an oil severance tax, such as the one that funded my higher education at the University of Texas<\/li>\n<li>80%+ support increasing revenues on tobacco, alcohol, gasoline, and the highest earners.<\/li>\n<li>Over 70% support changing Prop 13 to &#8220;split the rolls&#8221; between commercial and residential property.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, the Budget Challenge is far from a perfect barometer. In some places it doesn&#8217;t let you select from all of the options, and in others it misses some of the revenue options. However, this survey seemed to cover a pretty broad spectrum of options. Skinner is herself a product of the grassroots, and those connections are obvious when you speak to her for a few moments.She knows what her constituents are thinking, and her stated opinions line up fairly well. &nbsp;Now, getting those opinions into action will prove challenging over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. In coordination with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextten.org\/\">Next10 Budget Challenge<\/a>, Asm. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) has released <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.assembly.ca.gov\/members\/a14\/pdf\/BudgetSummitResults.pdf\">some data on how her constituents (PDF)<\/a> feel about the current budget crisis. Somewhat unsurprisingly, considering this is Berkeley, they think the Governor&#8217;s budget proposal is way off track. &nbsp;Some items of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>78% support balancing with a mix of cuts and revenues<\/li>\n<li>55% support <strong>increasing<\/strong> education funding, while only 19% support cutting K12 funding.<\/li>\n<li><b>94%<\/b> support an oil severance tax, such as the one that funded my higher education at the University of Texas<\/li>\n<li>80%+ support increasing revenues on tobacco, alcohol, gasoline, and the highest earners.<\/li>\n<li>Over 70% support changing Prop 13 to &#8220;split the rolls&#8221; between commercial and residential property.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, the Budget Challenge is far from a perfect barometer. In some places it doesn&#8217;t let you select from all of the options, and in others it misses some of the revenue options. However, this survey seemed to cover a pretty broad spectrum of options. Skinner is herself a product of the grassroots, and those connections are obvious when you speak to her for a few moments.She knows what her constituents are thinking, and her stated opinions line up fairly well. &nbsp;Now, getting those opinions into action will prove challenging over the next few years.<\/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":[497,152,60],"class_list":["post-9206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-497","tag-152","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206","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=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}