|
2008
Why Schwarzenegger's Redistricting Plan
Won't Work
California Majority Report.com
May 13, 2008
Tony Quinn: Redistricting Reform OK, But
It's Only A Start
Sacramento Bee
May 11, 2008
Governor May Face Donor Fatigue
Contra Costa Times
May 11, 2008
Dan Walters: Competing Proposals For Remap
Sacramento Bee
May 7, 2008
Initiative On Redistricting Closer To
Ballot
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Nunez Pushes Ethics Plan As Rival Petitions
Are Filed
Sacramento Bee
May 7, 2008
To Get Leadership Reform, We First Need
Redistricting
Los Angeles Daily News
May 1, 2008
Good Intentions Could Harm Redistricting
Ballot Measure
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2008
Redistricting On Track To Qualify,
Consultant Says
New America Foundation.com
April 23, 2008
Why Are GOP Contributors Putting Big Money
Into Redistricting Reform?
California Progress Report.com
April 19, 2008
Gov's
Giving To Remap Measure Tops $1 million
Sacramento Bee Capital Alert
April 21, 2008
‘Due
Process’ Democrats Have Their Heads Buried in the California Sand
California Progress Report.com
April 20, 2008
Opinion: Seeing The Light
Los Angeles Daily News
April 19, 2008
California
Voters FIRST Presents A Balanced And Bipartisan Effort For Redistricting
Reform
California Progress Report.com
April 17, 2008
Schwarzenegger's
Redistricting Plan Comes Under Fire
Contra Costa Times
April 17, 2008
Group Says Plan Will Put A Stop To
Gerrymandering
The Simi Valley Acron
April 4, 2008
The Need For Redistricting Reform From
This California Democrat’s Perspective
California Progress Report.com
April 4, 2008
Labor Says No To
Schwarzenegger/Republican/Common Cause Redistricting Measure
The California Majority Report.com
April 02, 2008
Revenge In Attack On Legislative
Redistricting?
California Progress Report.com
March 31, 2008
Weintraub: Governor Gets Another Shot At
Redistricting Reform
Sacramento Bee
March 30, 2008
Editorial: Can't Legislature Do Better Than
Bills On Dogs, Donkeys?
The Fresno Bee
March 30, 2008
Walters: Voters Irate At Budget Posturing
Sacramento Bee
March 28, 2008
New Foundation To Campaign For More Efficient
California Government
Sacramento Bee
March 27, 2008
Editorial: California Voters Should Support
Redistricting Ballot Measure
Fresno Bee
March 24, 2008
Editorial: Redraw the Map
Los Angeles Daily News
March 22, 2008
Walters: Court Ruling Offers Hope to
Dysfunctional California Politics
Sacramento Bee
March 19, 2008
Supreme Court to Hear Major Redistricting
Case
The Thicket at State Legislatures (ncsl.com)
March 18, 2008
Editorial: Let Citizens Redraw the Map
The Torrance Daily Breeze
March 17, 2008
Walters: Redistrict Reformers Miss Mark
Sacramento Bee
March 10, 2008
Let Citizens
Redraw Map
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
March 9, 2008
Governor Proposes Redistricting Ballot
Measure
North County Times
March 8, 2008
Redistricting Initiative Has Strong
Republican Backing
San Jose Mercury News
March 6, 2008
Governor Gathers Signatures to Qualify
Redistricting Measure
San Jose Mercury News
March 4, 2008
Manipulative Lawmakers Playing To The Crowd
Fresno Bee
February 14, 2008
State Voters Need To Do What Lawmakers
Won't
Los Angeles Daily News
February 14, 2008
Editorial: What We Need In Sacramento,
Redistricting, Not Retaliation
San Jose Mercury News
February 14, 2008
Redistricting Reform, Not Longer Terms, Is
The Answer
California Republic.org
February 12, 2008
The Buzz: A Hardball Tactic Could Ricochet
Sacramento Bee
February 11, 2008
Wake Up, Sacramento Media! Wake Up! Wake
Up! Wake Up!
San Diego Union Tribune
February 8, 2008
Editorial: Passive Aggressive Lawmakers
Just Play to the Crowd
Fresno Bee
February 8, 2008
Nunez Takes Blame For Prop. 93 Loss
Los Angeles Daily News
February 7, 2008
Weingand: Voters Got A Whiff and Said 'No'
Sacramento Bee
February 7, 2008
Lawmakers Believe In Term Limits But
Oppose The Measure
North County Times
February 4, 2008
Good For Us
Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2008
Commentary: A Conversation with Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2008
Walters: Two Party Structure Under Fire
Sacramento Bee
January 18, 2008
Walters: Governor's Brownian Flip-Flops
Sacramento Bee
January 16, 2008
Editorial: Corruption of a Good Idea
San Francisco Chronicle
January 15, 2008
Governor Supports Term Limit Measure
Sacramento Bee
January 15, 2008
A Deceptive Prop. 93
San Francisco Chronicle
January 10, 2008
Use Prop. 93 To Say 'No"
dailybreeze.com
January 3, 2008
more
|
 |
New Foundation To Campaign For More Efficient
California Government
By Shane Goldmacher
Sacramento Bee
March 27, 2008
Could late and unbalanced budgets, along with partisan gridlock,
disappear from Sacramento?
That's the goal of a new bipartisan political foundation that
unveiled its campaign Wednesday to improve state government,
bringing along a three-year, $15.9 million budget and high hopes for
overhauling the way the state does business.
The group, called California Forward, will be directed by a
13-member bipartisan board, including six former elected officials
and a group of business, civil rights and political activists.
"California cannot be a leader in the 21st century if its
government is not functioning effectively and efficiently for the
people of this state," said the group's co-chairman, Leon
Panetta, a Democrat who has served in Congress and as chief of staff
to President Clinton.
Thomas McKernan, a wealthy Republican activist in Orange County
and CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, is the other
co-chairman.
The foundation's leaders promised it will differ from past reform
coalitions. As board member and former state Sen. Chuck Poochigian,
a Fresno Republican, put it, California Forward has "the
resources to get the job done."
The funding comes from five of the state's leading public policy
foundations, which leaders of California Forward described as tired
of seeing important research studies brushed aside by elected
officials.
The member foundations are the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation, the California Endowment, and the Evelyn and
Walter Haas Jr. Fund.
California Forward will also operate a political fund – fueled
by private donors and separate from the nonprofit's three-year,
$15.9 million budget – to make its voice heard on more overt
political matters, such as ballot measures.
The coalition is already backing one such measure, aimed for the
November ballot, that would strip state lawmakers of the power to
draw their own legislative districts. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and
California Common Cause are among the other backers.
"We think we can play a role in trying to get that
adopted," Panetta said.
Overhauling how California's state budget is crafted is another
priority. But the foundation hasn't embraced any specific reforms
yet, as Panetta said the foundation would be "judicious"
about which policy changes it chooses to push.
"Frankly, we just got rolling," said McKernan, adding
that the group's council had met in person only once so far.
More than anything, members hope to bring a more bipartisan
culture to Sacramento.
"The mission is to make sure that governing in this town is
more important than winning," Panetta said. "This will be
challenging. We don't underestimate the challenges we face."
|
