California Progress Report Joint Letter At Democratic Convention Urges Delegates To Oppose Water Bond

California Progress Report

Joint Letter At Democratic Convention Urges Delegates To Oppose Water Bond

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By Traci Sheehan
Planning and Conservation League

Leading California Democrats are joining environmentalists, consumer advocates and environmental justice groups in urging Democratic Party activists to oppose an $11 billion water bond slated for the November ballot. In a joint letter distributed at this weekend's convention of the California Democratic Party in Los Angeles, signatories called the bond measure "ill-timed, unaffordable [and] loaded with political pork."
The bond does little to address our immediate water needs or to create a more

Feuer, Fuentes Discuss Progress on Reforming Broken System

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By Assemblymembers Mike Feuer and Felipe Fuentes

In this Democratic weekly address, Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles), Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Improving State Government, and Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (D-Sylmar) provide updates on legislation being heard before the Assembly and Senate budget committees that will fix the state’s budget process by advancing reforms proposed by the bipartisan good-government group California Forward.
Click onto the following link for the English language MP3 file. The running time is 3:12.
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/Newsline/Audio/20100416RadioAddressGovt...
Click onto the following link for the Spanish language MP3 file. The running time is 3:33.
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/Newsline/Audio/20100416RadioAddressFuen...
Website of Assemblymember Mike Feuer: www.asm.ca.gov/feuer
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