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Just hours after the Citizens Redistricting Commission certified California's new legislative and congressional maps on Monday, state Republicans announced they will file a petition today seeking a referendum to overturn the new Senate districts. There isn't any doubt that this commission did not apply consistent standards when drawing its maps, and the worst of that relates to Senate maps," state GOP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro said.
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WASHINGTON, July 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Kerry-Edwards Campaign: Continuing to cast one misleading attack after another, George Bush today unveiled a new stump speech once again devoid of any ideas for how he would lead the nation but chock full of scurrilous attacks against John Kerry.
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CIVIL; Where neither a fundamental constitutional right nor a suspect classification is at issue, a legislative distinction between two groups need only be created in such a manner as to bear a rational relationship to a legitimate governmental interest; a legislative decision to treat two groups differently is constitutionally infirm only where it is “based solely on reasons totally unrelated to the pursuit of the State’s goals and only if no grounds can be conceived to justify them.” Under the rational-basis standard, the party challenging a legislative enactment bears the heavy burden of demonstrating that it is irrational; one means of carrying this burden is to demonstrate that the legislative facts on which the classification is justified could not reasonably h...
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The subprime credit implosion is a complicated phenomenon. As lawmakers consider legislative options to forestall foreclosures and to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lenders, a number of facts are becoming clear, including: 1. Securitization prevents most originators from working with borrowers to restructure repayment. 2. There is absolutely no connection between the people who fund the mortgages and the people who borrow the money. 3. The more complicated the path between the funder and borrower, the more difficult it is to determine who is bearing what risk. 4. Yield hunger and ample investment capital drove the subprime lending push.
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To: State Desk Contact: David Irwin of AARP, 518-447-6723
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Marc Oestreich, a legislative analyst at the Heartland Institute, got some basic facts wrong in his Thursday column, and his claims about "for-profit" higher education need a reality check ("Obama's fake education reform," Commentary). The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is not affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, though the two have a joint organizing agreement. Neither the AAUP nor the American Association of University Women is among the largest higher- education unions, and although tens of thousands of professors, academic professionals and graduate employees are represented by local AAUP collective-bargaining agents, the national organization is not a union.
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State lawmakers emerged from a marathon legislative session Friday morning with a new state budget. The spending plan came, finally, on the 100th day of the fiscal year.
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The Sacramento Bee's editorial, "Who's behind the bankruptcy bill," that relates to my bill, AB155, dramatically misses the point of the legislative intent. AB 155 institutes checks-and-balances during the process of a municipal bankruptcy filing. As noted in the article, the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (CDIAC) would provide a review of the Chapter 9 filing. The statement that the CDIAC is "dominated by legislative leaders," however, grossly misstates the facts. The CDIAC is comprised of five nonlegislative members including the state's director of finance, the state's treasurer, the state's controller, a city representative and a county representative. There are two Assembly members and two state senators.
