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AS Required by law, GAVIN NEWSOM budget staff this week Initial drafts of 59 accounts Say it will be necessary for application of 2025-26 State Budget This Newsom offered a few weeks ago.
It’s a polite fiction.
While many of the bills refer to the budget, others have little or no connection, but are defined as “trailers” just to make them easier. They must be properly studied and discussed themselves instead of being secreted in the budget package.
One measure This needed an explanation and an exam, it would delay for four years of repression in street races, the so -called “side exhibitions” and other forms of extreme driving, for which police officers claim to be a serious threat to the safety of road sails. The legislature approved tougher penalties of dangerous drivers Almost unanimous in 2021, they had to come into force this year.
If the trailer bill is entered into force, the law will be delayed by 2029.
Other A proposed account for trailersAlthough quite harmless in its effect, there is an interesting and maritime history. This will expand the long -standing program for the provision of special devices that allow the deaf to use phones for nine years, funded by adding a few pennies to the telephone accounts each month.
Few would be arguing with a program aimed at overcoming the isolation that deaf and hard to listen to people can experience, but its creation, nearly half a century ago, illustrates the wheel and self-assembly, dominated in the 1970s and 1980s.
Terry Goggin, a Democratic Assembly from San Bernardino, carried the program for the creation of the program, but it sounded fishing for Vic Pollar, a San Bernardino Sun reporter, which often wrote about the many Goggin schemes.
Pollard revealed that at first glance, benign legislation took advantage of Goggin’s longtime friend and ever business partner Dennis Krieger, who signed the sale of shares for a company that made the only devices that Goggin’s legislation would fund. After Pollard announced this connection, Goggin was fined by the Committee on Fair Political Practices.
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I also added my head to the Goggin saga. At one point, at the end of the 70s, during one of the periodic crises for the supply of gasoline to California, Goggin introduced a bill to ban oil companies from having service stations. I told the Sacramento Union that his measure was freeing a company that used Goggin’s father and Kriger’s father as top leaders.
After the publication of my story, Goggin cut the bill.
Subsequently, Pollard has revealed to me that Goggin, who lost his place in 1984, once told him: “Someone will make money from everything we do here, and that can be our friends.”
Pollard added, “He also tried to hire me once to get me off his back.”
However, Goggin’s political defeat was not the end of his saga.
After his old friend Willie Brown, The legendary speaker of the State Assembly In the 1980s and 1990s, he became mayor of San Francisco in 1996, Goggin moved to the city and began practicing the right and lobbying of the city government. Eight years later, after the Mayor of Brown ended, he and Goggin partnered to offer a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign for the state train project.
This gambit fell and Goggin entered the cafes business, operating four discounts in Bay Area’s fast transit stations while looking for investors to expand the chain.
Who also turned when federal prosecutors claims to have lied to potential investors For the finances of the chain, which later goes bankrupt. At the age of 78, he pleaded guilty in 2019 for money laundering, and two years later was Sentenced to one year and one day Behind the bars.
