Friday, May 31, 2013
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		How Republicans Can Win California
		
 - Wired: Senator Rand Paul Talks Tech, Civil Liberties, and Keeping the Government Out of Your Email
 - WSJ($): Rand Paul Seeks Silicon Valley Funds
 - WashTimes: Sen. Paul: Security precautions for immigration reform
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		For Crist, Fletcher and Chafee, Timing Reveals Party Switching as an Act of Desperation
		
 - AFPCA:Congress Rejects High Cost of High Speed Rail
 
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		Fleischman: Any GOP Vote For A $2.3 Billion Car Tax Increase Is Bad Politics
		
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		Coupal: Will Republican Legislators Betray Taxpayers?
		
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		AP: State Senate rejects effort to ban plastic bags
		
 - SacBee($):California Senate trashes plastic bag ban
 - SDUT: Plastic bag ban, fracking limits rejected
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		Capital Roundup: School Suspension Bill Passes, Plastic Bag Ban Fails
		
 - SacBee($):Bill to increase California minimum wage clears Assembly
 - LATimes($): Assembly approves increase in state's minimum wage
 - CAPubRadio: Assembly Approves Minimum Wage Increase
 - SFChron: Assembly OKs bill to help Warriors arena
 - IVDB: Bill to distribute condoms in California prisons advances
 - SacBee($):California Senate passes modified state tax break for investors
 - AP: Bill allows Snoopy license plate to fund museums
 - SFChron: Senate Dems flex their supermajority muscle. Will the Assembly?
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		SacBee($):Leno, Blumenfield to co-chair California joint budget committee
		
 - SacBee($):Advocates fear Brown's school funding plan could hurt small programs
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		CalWatchdog: Expected Vidak-Perez runoff would spark national attention
		
 - SacBee($):Leticia Perez, Andy Vidak to vie in 16th Senate District runoff
 - Salvaggio: Winner in July's 16th District runoff has an advantage in 2014
 - CCT Political Blotter: House members blast Brown's Delta water plan
 - SFChron: Agency: Realignment law undermines role of judges
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		CCTimes: California high-speed rail faces delays as high-stakes trial begins Friday
		
 - SDUT: Rail plan headed for legal clash
 - WklyStand: The Beginning of Common Core's Trouble
 - WashPost: Tea party groups mobilizing against Common Core education overhaul
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		SacBee($):Two pro-business political consulting shops merge
		
 - Pew: Cigarette Smuggling Hurts State Tax Revenue
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		LATimes($): Appeals court deals California another setback on executions
		
 - SFChron: Court: Calif. erred in new lethal injection regs
 - SJMerc: State's death penalty on hold again
 - SacBee($):The Roundup: California state retirees; department's errors cost $100 million; funding CalSTRS
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		NYTimes: Leon Panetta to Write a Washington Memoir
		
 
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The Golden Pen
		The Man, A Plan, A Tunnel?
		
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		SacBee($): California Democrats' hegemony in jeopardy
		
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		WSJ: Sacramento's Nonprofit Shakedown
		
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		CalWatchdog: Cities could be stuck with "aesthetic" impacts of High Speed Rail...
		
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		F&H Daily: K-12 Funding Formula Would Generate New Per-Pupil Spending Disparities
		
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		F&H Daily: Polls, Polls -- What Do They Mean?
		
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		WashPost: The Fix's best state-based political reporters, 2013 edition
		
 - SacBee($):California eases payments by Red Hawk Casino
 - SacBee($):Group launches drive to force public vote on Sacramento arena subsidy
 - SFChron($): Khanna stresses tech in challenge to Honda
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		S.F.'s budget blues eased for next 2 years
		
 - FresBee: Valley dealers: Proposed gun control laws unfair
 - IVDB: Regional group files lawsuit challenging LAX modernization plan
 - LATimes($): Most Crenshaw High teachers being displaced in LAUSD revamp
 - OCReg: Gun measures may help Costa Mesa gun show
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		OCReg: Rep. Rohrabacher has 'positive' talks in Russia
		
 - OCVoice: Troubled Hospital Network Cares for Neediest OC Patients
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		OCReg: Disney worker pleads not guilty in small explosions
		
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		DesSun:Mary Bono Mack pulls desert home off market
		
 - Politico: Battle over Baca backing heats up
 - SBSun: Supervisors discuss funding for courts, health care in Sacramento meeting
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		VOSD: The Flaw in Filner's TMD Demand
		
 - VOSD: La Jolla Cove Solution Cuts Through Red Tape - and Crap
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		SDUT: Bilbray: No plans to run in 2014
		
 
