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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
B. Garibay, Elk Grove Time for an end to personal attacks Re "Time for Perata to exit the leadership" (Editorial, Nov. 7): While, like the Bee editorial board, I look forward to Darrell Steinberg's leadership in his new role as the Senate President Pro Tempore, I find it unfortunate that The Bee has opted to denigrate the public service of Sen. Don Perata. While it would be understandable...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Speaker Karen Bass, Senate Pro Tem Don Perata and Senate Pro Tem elect Darrell Steinberg arrive at the Big 5 meeting in the Governor's office on Wednesday. Legislative leaders emerged from a two-hour budget meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning with little optimism that an agreement is imminent. Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said it is possible the "Big Five" will reconvene...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass heads to a Capitol meeting Wednesday with Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, center, and Perata's successor, Sen. Darrell Steinberg. The Republican leader in the state Senate, Dave Cogdill, talks with reporters after Wednesday's budget meeting in the governor's office. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass touted Uncle Sam as a realistic savior Wednesday for California's...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... committee chairmanships. Current chairman, Sen. Tom Torlakson, an ally of outgoing Senate leader Don Perata, is headed to the state Assembly.The appropriations panel is, by most accounts, one of the two most powerful committees in the Capitol, as every bill that spends taxpayer money must pass through it. That gives the chair life or death powers over nearly every major bill (with the pro...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... that he estimated could grow to $24 billion in the next two years.Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, decided to allow his members to go on their planned trips because budget negotiations are being handled by legislative leaders, said his spokeswoman Alicia Trost, adding that Perata would require them to return for a floor vote."These trips are important in maintaining...
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America's Finest Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Or is it a personal slap at Democratic Senate leader Don Perata? Speaker Bass doesn't have to fight to maintain Martin Luther King's birthday as a Holiday. Nor did Speaker Nunez have to struggle to maintain our celebration of the birthday of Cesar Chavez - although Chavez would certainly have swapped his birthday for the legislation vetoed by Scharzenegger to allow the UFW to sign up members...
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Capital Note (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... You'll remember that Sunday is the deadline mentioned by outgoing Senate President pro Tem Don Perata for legislative action before the new Legislature is seated on December 1. The real question, of course, is whether there will be a deal in hand by week's end? It's become clear that Democrats want a list of new revenues GOP legislators are willing to raise... in exchange for a list of items...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, left, and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass field questions last week on their way to the Governor's Office to work on the state budget with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's a deceptively simple problem: Match how much money state government takes in with how much it spends. But the devil, as the saying goes, is in the details. And if there's one thing California...
