This is the archive area for April 2000.
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Volume 3, Number 39: April 3, 2000
When it comes to fund-raising and wise campaign
spending, there are few politicians out there better than California
Gov. Gray Davis, a wily Democrat who in his campaigns for the
Legislature, the controller's office, the lieutenant governor's office
and, finally, the governorship, has shown that he knows how to build a
campaign war chest.
Volume 3, Number 40: April 10, 2000
Capitol observers have debated for years over
whether some top state offices should be appointive rather than
elective. The question remains unresolved, but it is getting renewed
attention because of campaign contribution and regulatory issues
involving the state insurance commissioner.
Volume 3, Number 41: April 17, 2000
The brief but stormy tenure of Jose Medina as
director of Caltrans demonstrates as much about the governor's lack of
judgment in making the appointment as it does about Medina's lack of
ability to handle the job.
Volume 3, Number 42: April 24, 2000
Legislative hearings are rarely exciting. They
focus, properly so, on the details of bills. They are forums for
policy wonks, lobbyists and the special interests affected in some
fashion by the bills. Every so often, a real member of the public
somehow manages to appear before a committee and testify on the merits
of a bill; those appearances, however, are rare.
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