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From GOOD Club September 2009 Newsletter: “A Toolkit to Repair California?”

Aug 27, 2009 No Comments ›› allendirrim@yahoo.com

With a media assist from the Ventura County Star’s Timm Herdt, Tim Wunderman, CEO of the Bay Area Council, came to Ventura County August 2 to promote Repair California’s   plan for calling a state constitutional convention.  It  seeks to sidestep the legislature’s sole power to convene a constitutional convention by using  two constitutional initiatives ...

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From July 2009 GOOD Club Newsletter: “Stalemate, Tyranny of a Minority, or Both?

Jun 30, 2009 No Comments ›› allendirrim@yahoo.com

Governor Schwarzenegger is casting his lot with the Republican minority in the legislature which is primarily responsible for the failure of the legislature to produce a viable budget. True, our staggering deficit does represent an accumulation of spending greater than revenue collection, and some of that spending, the burgeoning prison bill, for example, is certainly ...

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