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Tag Archives: Think Long Committee
Reformers Team Up for November Ballot
Advocates for major government reform have long lamented that if only they could find the financial backing for a political campaign, the voters would ratify changes to help end California's dysfunction. Now, it looks as though the white knight has … Continue reading
Think Long Opts to Think Longer. Advantage Brown?
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It seems safe to say that Governor Jerry Brown and billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen are unlikely to have much in common. One lives on a private jet and is the scion of an international art collector, the other favors spartan … Continue reading
Super Committee for California's Initiative Process
Frustrated by the tendency of elected officials to kowtow to political pressure and the unchecked power of interest groups to write their own laws that never get revisited, California's latest governance reform effort proposes a new third way: a citizens … Continue reading
Government Reformers Eye November 2012
Efforts to reform California's system of government — a system that virtually no one denies is dysfunctional — have been percolating for the last few years, but have never actually reached the boiling point. Now, reformers hope they can finally … Continue reading
