Speaker Pérez: Budget Choices Must Help Private Sector and Local Communities Keep Californians Working
By Assembly Speaker John PérezSACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly address, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) highlights comments he made to business leaders and local mayors this week that job creation must be the priority in budget negotiations and that California cannot afford another summer of ideological warfare.
Click onto the following link for the English language MP3 file. The running time is 3:03.
http://asmdc.org/newsline/20100709RadioAddressEnglishBudgetPerez1.mp3
Click onto the following link for the Spanish language MP3 file. The running time is 4:24.
http://www.asmdc.org/newsline/20100709RadioAddressSJPSPANISH.mp3
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All The Things The Polls Don’t Tell
By Peter SchragForget the headlines and all the heavy breathing generated by last week’s Field Poll results of the races for governor and U.S. Senator – Carly Fiorina closing with Barbara Boxer; Meg Whitman’s millions bringing her dead even with Jerry Brown.
What’s most notable in the numbers, despite the differences between Republicans Fiorina and Whitman (on the one hand) and Democrats Boxer and Brown (on the other) is that they seem to have less to do with voter perceptions of the four candidates than with the voters’ party affiliation, political ideology, degree of social disaffection, ethnicity and location.
With one major exception – strong voter support for Proposition 25 lowering the margin required to pass the state budget from two-thirds to a simple majority – the same seems to be true about the initiatives on the November ballot.
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