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Hi, Brian: <br>
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Why did this need a 2/3 majority? <br>
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Thanks, <br>
Spencer <br>
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On 1/31/2012 12:30 PM, Brian Good wrote:
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We needed a 2/3 majority--every Democrat and 2 Republicans.<br>
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We got every Democrat except Cathleen Galgiani (Stockton),
and we only got one<br>
Republican, Nathan Fletcher (San Diego). <br>
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So even though we failed to win the vote, we showed that the
Republican Party<br>
is willing to vote down legislation that 80% of voters (and over
75% of Republicans)<br>
favor. <br>
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Wait'll next year. We'll introduce it again, and this time
we'll win.<br>
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I'm finding working at the CA State level very stimulating.
Most people don't even<br>
know who their state legislators are, and a couple of dozen
calls from constituents lights <br>
a fire under their assembly reps. By phonebanking, people from
all over the state can <br>
converge electronically to rouse the supporters in targeted
assembly districts. And there<br>
is a very clear difference between Republicans and Democrats at
the state level.<br>
<br>
I understand that Ms. Galgiani is termed out after this year,
so her assembly seat will be <br>
opening up, and she plans to run for state senate.<br>
<br>
I will be very interested to look into who finances Ms.
Galgiani, and there's an excellent<br>
research resource, maplight, that has a lot of information on CA
state legislators and their<br>
campaign contributors.<br>
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