that tight balanced budget requirements lead states to adopt more extensive spending cuts and sales of assets during downturns than weak requirements. See Anna M. Costello, Reining Petacchi, and Joseph Weber, “The Hidden Consequences of Balanced Budget Requirements,” working paper dated September 2012. Available from http://ssrn.com/abstract=2151598. 22 His first solo film since leaving the governorship, “The Last Stand,” did poorly at the box office. Apart from a difficult general budget situation that Schwarzenegger bequeathed to Brown, he left a minor annoyance in the form of a plan to sell state office buildings and lease them back from the private owners. In essence, the plan was a very expensive way of borrowing money which the Legislative Analyst and others condemned. Brown killed the plan but in summer 2013, the disappointed developers who wanted to buy the buildings sued the state for canceling the plan. At this writing, the outcome of that litigation is unknown. 23 McFadden, pp. 134‐135. 24 Newsom switched to running for lieutenant governor and won the nomination and election. 25 Whitman became CEO of Hewlett‐Packard after losing to Brown. Generally, Silicon Valley has supported immigration reform and favors libertarian positions on social issues. Thus, while during the 2010 campaign, Whitman supported California’s Prop 8 banning gay marriage, she reversed that position in early 2013 and urged the Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8. 26 A few Republicans in the legislature had gone along with the February 2009 tax increase and were duly punished with recall attempts and removal from legislative leadership. By 2010, it was unlikely that sufficient renegade Republican support could be gained for any tax increase. 27 Quoted in McFadden, p. 170. 28 Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters – in a video op ed http://web.registrar.ucla.edu/selfservice – argued that a critical state senate report on the controller’s handling of a failed computer project (see below in the text) was “payback” for the lost pay. See http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/08/dan‐walters‐daily‐salary‐ severed‐senate‐strikes‐back.html. 29 Quoted in McFadden, p. 164. 30 To become effective by the November 2012 election, the bill (AB 1499) would normally have needed a two‐ thirds vote, but the Democrats did not have two thirds. However, a $1,000 appropriation was added to the bill, supposedly converting it into a budget bill that could be passed by a simple majority. A court later ruled that adding a token amount to such a bill did not exempt it from the two‐thirds requirement. 31 Quoted in Robin Wilkey, “Jerry Brown Votes: California Governor At The Polls On Prop. 30, 34,” Huffington Post, November 6, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/jerry‐brown‐votes_n_2083999.html. 32 Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, “ ‘Gov. Brown’ Tax bid will be final try,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 2012. Available at http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier‐ross/article/Gov‐Brown‐Tax‐bid‐will‐be‐final‐try‐ 3870277.php. 33 John Myers, “Brown on revisiting trigger cuts: ‘I’m not going down that road,’” News10/KXTV, October 18, 2012. Available at http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/213841/525/Gov‐Brown‐interview‐No‐second‐look‐at‐trigger‐ cuts. 34 CSU has been more aggressive in political issues than UC. For example, CSU issued a “legislative scorecard” giving members of the legislature grades ranging from F to B+ for support of higher education. In one instance, a CSU administrator sent out a pro‐Prop 30 email, resulting in a lawsuit by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and an admission by CSU that the email was improper. 35 Jayson L. Lusk and Brandon McFadden, “Voter’s [sic] Intentions on Proposition 37 Requiring Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods in California,” working paper dated October 1, 2012, Oklahoma State University. Available at http://agecon.okstate.edu/faculty/publications/4369.pdf. 36 If both propositions passed, it appeared that the one with the highest number of votes would prevail, but there were legal ambiguities that never had to be resolved, since Prop 38 failed as expected. The two major teacher unions, the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers endorsed Prop 30. The California State PTA endorsed both 30 and 38.
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