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		<title>Hertzberg turns on reformer&#8217;s charm in Walnut Creek</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/02/hertzberg-turns-on-reformers-charm-in-walnut-creek/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/02/hertzberg-turns-on-reformers-charm-in-walnut-creek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a little while today, we all forgot that Democrat Bob Hertzberg is no longer the Assembly speaker or even an elected official. (Read the full story here.) Three days after he officially bowed out of a state senate bid against Sen. Fran Pavely, D-Augoura Hills, Hertzberg was in Walnut Creek stumping for his favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California, meet Propositions 28 and 29</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/30/california-meet-propositions-28-and-29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/30/california-meet-propositions-28-and-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Debra Bowen has announced the numbers for the two measures set to appear on the June 5 ballot, and interested Californians now can submit arguments to be considered for inclusion in the state’s official voter information guide. Here are the ballot measures, with their official titles and summaries as written by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State reform groups merge and revive ballot measure</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-reform-groups-merge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-reform-groups-merge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two state reform groups with disparate timelines have combined forces and resurrected a budget  initiative using what every successful ballot measure needs: Cash. With matching $3 million pledges, eccentric billionaire Nicolas Berggruen and his Think Long Committee will join California Forward, a reform organization led by former Contra Costa Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak and former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to rule Friday on redistricting suit</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/supreme-court-to-rule-friday-on-redistricting-suit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/26/supreme-court-to-rule-friday-on-redistricting-suit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court will issue its written opinion at 10 a.m. tomorrow on a challenge to last year’s state Senate redistricting, it announced minutes ago. That challenge, filed in early December, asks the court to decide whether the old or new state Senate district map should be used for this year’s elections if a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Think Long Committee&#8217; won&#8217;t go for 2012 ballot</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/17/think-long-committee-wont-go-for-2012-ballot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/17/think-long-committee-wont-go-for-2012-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Think Long Committee for California – a panel of experts funded by an itinerant billionaire that had developed plans for tax reform and a citizens&#8217; oversight committee – will delay putting its plans to voters from 2012 to 2014. The committee, which released its report in November, issued a statement today sying it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Amend 2012&#8242; launched to reverse Citizens United</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/17/amend-2012-launched-to-reverse-citizens-united/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/17/amend-2012-launched-to-reverse-citizens-united/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A national good-government watchdog group is launching a coast-to-coast campaign to have voters urge Congress to reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and limit political spending by amending the U.S. Constitution. Common Cause’s “Amend 2012” campaign will aim to place initiatives on this November’s ballots – either by gathering petition signatures or through legislative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal would vastly expand Legislature</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/proposal-would-vastly-expand-legislature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/proposal-would-vastly-expand-legislature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I’d seen every possible suggestion for breaking California’s legislative logjam and making lawmakers more beholden to the people, from top-two primaries to redistricting to docking lawmakers’ pay to a part-time Legislature. But this is a new one on me: Increasing the Legislature’s size almost a hundred-fold. Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot measure calls for bigger, much bigger, legislature</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/ballot-measure-calls-for-bigger-much-bigger-legislature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/04/ballot-measure-calls-for-bigger-much-bigger-legislature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An initiative just cleared for signature-gathering today that would increase the size of the state legislature by 100-fold. And no, that&#8217;s not a misprint. The measure calls for creating neighborhood-based elected Assembly districts for every 5,000 people and Senate districts for every 10,000 people. Today, a senate district has 1 million people. Interestingly, analysts say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax touters seek Kim Kardashian&#8217;s support (?)</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/19/tax-touters-seek-kim-kardashians-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/19/tax-touters-seek-kim-kardashians-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How better to build support for a millionaires’ tax than to pick on one of California’s most annoying millionaires? So they must’ve thought over at the Courage Campaign, which launched this video this afternoon: &#8220;We love Ms. Kardashian&#8217;s sense of style and we know she gets lots of attention,&#8221; Courage Campaign founder and chairman Rick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives say polls back millionaires tax</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/progressives-say-polls-back-millionaires-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/15/progressives-say-polls-back-millionaires-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a blizzard of tax-hike measures vying for slots on next November’s ballot, a coalition of labor and progressive groups said today that polling shows their “millionaire’s tax” is the most popular. So popular, in fact, that proponents say everyone – including Gov. Jerry Brown, who has a different plan of his own – should [...]]]></description>
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