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Maybe Napolitano will end her term as UC President when Feinstein retires and run for her seat. 
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Aside from those two who else are the top tier candidates the CA Democrats have? Goodwin Liu? Eric Garcetti (Mayor of Los Angeles) is up and coming unless there's been some scandal I haven't heard about. Goodwin Liu is an academic, not a politician. Unless he gets nominated to some higher court, I think he's content being a justice. edit: Maybe John Chiang someday, since he's perennially bouncing around from one elected position to another. Bizarro Watt fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The 4th District Court of Appeals is due to rule on the legality of tiered water pricing this week. If the court upholds the lower court ruling, tiered water pricing will be illegal in Orange County, making it that much harder to cut water usage. Sounds like there's a potential backup plan if the water districts decide to use it by including more parameters into deciding the cost of the water service (actual source of water, etc.) Get a creative enough bureaucrat and it might not be that big of a deal. It would be in Orange County that this happened, though.
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The LA Times just came out with an article on the downfall of San Bernardino: http://graphics.latimes.com/san-bernardino/ I've never been to San Bernardino, so aside from hearsay, I've never really known how bad it could be there.
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nm posted:the "stupid californians growing poo poo in the desert" narrative is bullshit. Yeah I see this everywhere as comments to news articles or posts on reddit and it's obnoxious, along with "maybe you guys shouldn't have built your major cities in the desert  ." A passing glance at any map of climate regions or precipitation in the state make it obvious how wrong this is. Ron Jeremy posted:The water comes from the snow pack in the surrounding mountains. We haven't had a good snow is several years. This is why a strong El Nino might not be as great as some are making it out to be (that and landslides and flooding). El Nino means it's warmer, so a lot of the precipitation the Sierras will get might fall as rain instead of snow. It will still help with reservoirs, though. And of course, we'd need more rain than one big El Nino can afford us to get rid of the drought, but at this point, just a return to normal yearly precipitation would be a godsend.
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Jul 21, 2015 16:22
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Dirk the Average posted:gently caress humidity though. Half the point of living in southern California is that it's not humid for more than a few days a year. Cold and humid is fine, hot and dry is fine, but hot and humid is loving miserable. I don't know how anyone stands living outside of here. Man I live in Texas now and the heat/humidity isn't that big of a deal as long as you're not doing anything strenuous. Warm/humid nights can actually be really fun. Still miss CA weather, though.
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Aug 18, 2015 20:21
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ComradeCosmobot posted:California is likely to become the second state to automatically register voters. It's fun seeing all the folks that think this is some sort of sinister plot to register an army of illegals to vote.
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Shbobdb posted:Since police brutality is loving up your commute, you can no longer shrug and say it doesn't concern you. Police brutality isn't interfering with the Bay Bridge commute. Protesters who think it's a good cause (it is) are deciding to interfere with everyone's commute to bring attention to it. This sentiment frustrated me when I was a college student, and the blocking of Highway 17 in particular comes to mind (a couple years ago I believe). Some (not all) of the protesters or sympathizers claimed that they were forced to block traffic because of such and such issue, like tuition and fees. They didn't seem to want to accept responsibility that they in fact, had decided it was the best course of action to take, in their minds. It was someone else's fault, of course.
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Jan 19, 2016 18:15
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Sydin posted:My favorite bit is where Blum voted to jack up UC tuition, circumvented the usual investment procedures and hired his own private managers to invest the sweet tuition cash into his own real estate businesses, lost the system a ton of money when the resulting 2008 crash happened, and responded by crying that the UC's had no money so they needed to raise tuition more. Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it.
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Mar 20, 2016 21:09
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Another company moves its headquarters from California to Texas: http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/22274 Mind you, I don't care, beyond it being another thing for Texans to be insufferable over.
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That's kind of a weak relationship you're trying to make. Beyond the actual events, the government and societal response to them matters too As far as I know, some politicians introduced potential laws in Texas a couple years after the fact, but I've yet to see any actual change. Plus as far as I know, the issue with the gas leak in CA stemmed from lack of oversight back in the 70s where a safety valve was removed and never replaced.
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May 8, 2016 04:13
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ComradeCosmobot posted:HSR has been delayed four years. You'll now have to wait for 2022 to get from Merced to Bakersfield. HSR would be such a boon to California and the country in general that it frustrates me to no end that I keep seeing this. Though it seems a lot of the delays and costs are from the legal battles that came out of it.
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May 21, 2016 14:37
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Instant Sunrise posted:Well, it looks like Rep. Xavier Becerra is going to be the new Attorney General to replace Harris. I wonder if he'd consider running for governor against Newsom? Mind you, I still consider myself a part of the Chiang gang.
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I dunno, Xavier Becerra may decide to run for her spot depending on what he's doing when Feinstein is gone. My ideal scenario right now is that John Chiang defies all expectations, becomes governor and Becerra becomes CA's next senator. Newsom goes home a loser and leaves politics forever.
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Newsom would probably salivate at the thought of running against someone like Thiel.
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PG&E tried doing the same thing with Prop 16 in 2010; it would have required a 2/3 majority by voters before a local government could establish a public electricity service. So they tried presenting it as actually enhancing choice, that private utilities are cheaper anyway, etc. The entire proposition was essentially bankrolled by PG&E. It didn't pass (52% No), in part because PG&E underestimated just how much people loving hate them:   The inland counties are amusing, in particular.
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If I still lived in California I'd entertain the idea of running for office on the sole platform of "gently caress PG&E in the rear end" and see how many votes I'd get.
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Oct 28, 2019 22:15
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Bernie Sanders becomes president, tells Newsom to eat poo poo and removes his supply of fundraising. Newsom retires after one term to spend time with his best friend's wife, and John Chiang runs again, becoming the next Governor of California.
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Oct 30, 2019 03:36
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Ranter posted:The story of our times. I'd buy that postmodern novel. With a protagonist named Edith Entytlments probably, or something along those lines.
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"Nobody wants to live in California, it's too full." - Yogi Berra
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Dec 17, 2019 19:30
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I moved to Texas several years ago (in the middle of nowhere) and by far the most annoying thing is when people volunteer how "socialist" and "liberal" policies are destroying California and then they remind me not to bring them here by voting Democratic. I'm happy to discuss Californian policies but generally they don't want to get more nuanced than that, especially when I suggest that maybe some of the policies contributing to the state's problems could be "conservative" rather than leftist. Mind you, liberal policies definitely are contributing to this state's issues depending on how you define the term. Other than that though, people from both states are more alike than they are different even if they don't want to admit it. They also do breakfast tacos instead of burritos for some reason.
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Jan 16, 2020 23:04
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Leperflesh posted:I hear their entire state is funded by property taxes, though, so you're gonna pay some hefty property tax on that palatial texan estate. Still not enough to really have a functioning state government. The state version of the EPA for example has a $400m budget-- for a comparison, Cal EPA's is $1.8 billion. You can probably guess at how efficient it is at regulating industry.
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Jan 17, 2020 00:52
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It is unfortunate though that as much as I love my home state, I have resigned myself to the reality that I will probably never be able to afford to live there again. I hope y'all figure that out eventually. I have family back home that have working class salaries (50k-ish) and they really are struggling.
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fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/mlagos/status/1220115020270338049?s=20 It's palpable how much he doesn't want to make an actual hard choice like that.
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Jan 23, 2020 00:22
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Sydin posted:Wow the school bonds statewide prop failed. Those are usually slam dunks. Maybe the economic anxiety everyone is feeling (living in California) trickling into other issues? Similar to the areas rejecting the increase in sales tax for transportation. I haven't lived in California in a while, but I get the impression people are just getting stretched way too thin.
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Mar 4, 2020 20:29
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I hope someone is in the works to primary Kamala Harris in 2022. What a pathetic endorsement after what she brought up in the debates AND the California primary results. John Chiang sighed as he drew his katana
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Mar 8, 2020 22:41
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:Summon Kevin de Leon! Based on past experience I wouldn't be surprised if de Leon ended up in the runoff with Harris and then outright endorsed her.
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Mar 9, 2020 01:23
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Senator Jerry Brown would probably challenge Trump to a push up contest so I'd vote for him.
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Spazzle posted:I-5 alliance Gonna unironically call it this
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Apr 14, 2020 02:15
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Jesus christ. Me asking them to stop their party would have been met with being ignored at best, told to gently caress off at worst. Calling the cops is perfectly understandable.
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Apr 18, 2020 18:43
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Apr 18, 2020 21:34
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They have private beaches on the East Coast? Jesus.
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Apr 30, 2020 19:01
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A few years ago a group of rich homeowners in my hometown tried to block off access to the beach they lived next to and the response from the state was a pretty solid "gently caress off" and that story always puts a smile on my face.
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May 1, 2020 18:51
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atelier morgan posted:Tomorrow after living here since I was six years old I will be moving out of this state to go live in sin in washington. I love California and I absolutely despise California and I will miss it and be happy to see the back of it in equal measure. It has been a pleasure posting with you all, at least I'll still be on your side of the border when the western states pact declares independence after the chud states push through a constitutional convention or w/e the gently caress I made a similar move to Texas almost a decade ago. My mentality is similar in that there is a lot I love (and miss) about California and a lot I hate about it. However, I get enough anti-California sentiment from Texans so I mostly like to point out the ways that California is better, because few are interested in having nuanced conversations about the pros and cons of either state. That said, two weeks ago I filled an online form to change the address on my Texas driver license and I got a new (REAL ID-approved) one a few days ago, so that was pretty nice.
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May 3, 2020 20:39
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Leperflesh posted:You're a california transplant anyway, they're already going to politely hate you for driving up real estate prices and poo poo anyway. Doing this in Oregon and Washington is passe, the cool thing to do now is do it in Boise, ID.
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May 3, 2020 23:28
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I haven't lived in California for almost a decade, so how's that high speed rail going?
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mllaneza posted:One inch on top, half inch on the sides and back. Style around the ears as you see fit. I work more by feel - grabbing adjacent hunks of hair and hitting them with the razor, and repeating until I've got it all. Takes me a few hours, but the end result looks good and I can do it at home. That razor kit has saved me hundreds in stylist costs and hours arguing with stylists who aren't sure I really mean cut it back TO an inch, not BY an inch. I can't blame them, so I save everyone the grief. Use a handheld mirror in addition to your bathroom mirror or something-- if you have your back facing the bathroom mirror, you can use the handheld to get a full view of the back of your head. If you don't mind a rather simple hair-style, using a clipper with different sizes is an easy way to save lots of money over the long-term.
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May 20, 2020 18:55
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I'd rather leave the secessionist fantasies to failed petrostates like Texas. Also I've spent the last decade in Texas, AMA. Edit: Fun fact, the budget for the California EPA is over $1.5 billion The budget for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (their state equivalent), is less than $400 million.
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May 22, 2020 23:25
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Are you going to come back before the borders close? I'd love to move back to California some day, but my industry (in the public sector) simply wouldn't pay enough at my current pay scale. Though in the future I wouldn't be against trying to make Sacramento work depending on what housing looks like in 10 or so years.
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The news of Big Basin being gone just about broke me. 
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