One of our jobs each year is to review every bill and resist those not in the general interest. Legislators have submitted 2,115 bills so far this session.
California suffers poor governance today because no one played our role yesterday. Eg, in 1999 the legislature passed SB 400, a retroactive pension increase. When asked years later why he voted for it, the Republican Senate leader said that it was safer to vote for the bill because there was no GFC-type organization with sufficient power to block it. That’s no longer the case. Today, an 11-year-old GFC that’s powerful enough to stop bills granting collective bargaining rights to legislative staff, waiving pension limits and more could stop SB 400.
Together we are engaged in a collective endeavor to recover the excellence with which our state was once governed. For that endeavor we need $5mm per year in political and non-political contributions. Your persistent participation is appreciated.
