Opinion: Crony capitalism comeback fails to advance in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO – In politics, no battle ever is won. You can vanquish a venal politician in one election and – like a zombie in a horror flick – he’s back the next cycle. Likewise, lawmakers keep reprising bad ideas no matter their awfulness. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” goes the saying often One of the worst ideas I’ve reported on – and that’s saying something given that this is, after all, California – is.
In particular, former Assemblyman Chris Norby of Fullerton, who played a key role in convincing former Gov. Jerry Brown to dissolve those agencies a dozen years ago, details the fiscal problems they caused. It hasn’t been that long since they’ve been gone, yet some lawmakers haven’t gotten the message. In the ensuing years, the Legislature reprised some aspects of it, by allowing cities to use a similarThis year, however, one bill tried to bring back redevelopment agencies in their entirety .
– and the courts affirmed the Legislature’s decision. They’ve been gone long enough that no one in the media seems to remember them.was moving through the Legislature, so this should have been front-page news. But my Google searches yielded nothing – no news stories or opinion pieces other than the ones that I personally had penned. One aspect of “eternal vigilance” is paying attention to the goings-on in the state Capitol.
“AB 1476 would divert local property taxes that currently go to schools to instead fund RDAs and would require the state to backfill schools to meet the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee,” the union wrote in a letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. And that was that. Other news events sealed the deal. You might have noticed, but California faces a $31.5-billion budgetRelated Articles
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