The jet-setting “middle class” Speaker of the California Assembly has asked for each of his Assembly Democrat colleagues to donate $50,000 to an initiative that will allow him to serve an additional six years as Speaker. $50,000, that’s just so middle class; everyone knows that anything less than $100,000 is chump change.
The Speaker's press flack, Steve Maviglio says that the Speaker supports the term limits extension because it will make “the Legislature more effective…” It causes one to wonder; more effective at what? Shopping? Perhaps finding a really good deal on Berluti shoes in London?
Núñez's Prop. 93 plea to caucus
Speaker privately asks all Assembly Dems to donate $50,000 each to term limits measure.
By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee
10/11/07
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez privately has asked all 47 Assembly Democrats to donate about $50,000 apiece to help pass an initiative that could give all of them extra time in office.
The measure, Proposition 93, would reduce the total number of years that an elected official could serve in the Legislature -- from 14 to 12 -- but provide at least one extra term for incumbents.
Núñez solicited his Democratic caucus at a breakfast meeting Aug. 30 at Chops restaurant near the Capitol, but the session was private and details were unknown until Wednesday.
The issue surfaced after campaign disclosure statements showed identical $50,000 donations, each filed Sept. 8, from Assembly Democrats Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Ted Lieu of Torrance.
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma of San Francisco filed documents Tuesday showing her campaign gave a $45,000 contribution to the term limits initiative, which will appear on the Feb. 5 ballot.
"The speaker believes this campaign is about making the Legislature more effective and reducing the amount of time that legislators stay in office," Steve Maviglio, Núñez's spokesman, said of the measure.
But Kevin Spillane, spokesman for the anti-Proposition 93 campaign, blasted Núñez's actions as "an obvious sign that this initiative isn't about strengthening term limits."
"It's written by political insiders, and it benefits political insiders," he said. "It's an incumbent protection initiative -- and the incumbents are ponying up their dues so they can stay in office longer."
…The full story is here.
The Speaker's press flack, Steve Maviglio says that the Speaker supports the term limits extension because it will make “the Legislature more effective…” It causes one to wonder; more effective at what? Shopping? Perhaps finding a really good deal on Berluti shoes in London?Núñez's Prop. 93 plea to caucus
Speaker privately asks all Assembly Dems to donate $50,000 each to term limits measure.
By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee
10/11/07
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez privately has asked all 47 Assembly Democrats to donate about $50,000 apiece to help pass an initiative that could give all of them extra time in office.
The measure, Proposition 93, would reduce the total number of years that an elected official could serve in the Legislature -- from 14 to 12 -- but provide at least one extra term for incumbents.
Núñez solicited his Democratic caucus at a breakfast meeting Aug. 30 at Chops restaurant near the Capitol, but the session was private and details were unknown until Wednesday.
The issue surfaced after campaign disclosure statements showed identical $50,000 donations, each filed Sept. 8, from Assembly Democrats Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Ted Lieu of Torrance.
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma of San Francisco filed documents Tuesday showing her campaign gave a $45,000 contribution to the term limits initiative, which will appear on the Feb. 5 ballot.
"The speaker believes this campaign is about making the Legislature more effective and reducing the amount of time that legislators stay in office," Steve Maviglio, Núñez's spokesman, said of the measure.
But Kevin Spillane, spokesman for the anti-Proposition 93 campaign, blasted Núñez's actions as "an obvious sign that this initiative isn't about strengthening term limits."
"It's written by political insiders, and it benefits political insiders," he said. "It's an incumbent protection initiative -- and the incumbents are ponying up their dues so they can stay in office longer."
…The full story is here.
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