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Hospital workers get their pay BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN More than 14 months of contentious negotiations and numerous strikes resulted in a peaceful resolution for the University of California and hospital workers on Sunday when both sides agreed to a new five-year contract. The tentative agreement, which promises the more than 11,500 UC patient care workers wage increases and overtime pay, will now go before the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 general membership for ratification in early November. “It was a long hard fight and I think we
moved a lot from what we originally asked for a year and a half ago, but for patient care workers, this is a really good deal,” Lakesha Harrison, the union president, said. The contract features $127 million in total wage increases over the life of the contract, including $18 million in the first year ranging from 4 to 15 percent. The union originally sought a three-year contract that would give 9 percent increases in the first year, followed by 6 percent in the second and final year with a minimum wage of $15. What they ended up getting was a contract that moves all workers to a minimum wage of $14.50 an hour in the final year of the contract and the establishment of a longevity-based step system, which rewards
employees for experience and skill. The stepsystem had been a focal point of the demands from the union. “Our patient care employees play a vital role in helping UC medical and student health centers deliver top-quality patient care, and we are pleased to have reached an agreement that recognizes their many important contributions to the university and to the state,” Shelley Nielsen, the UC’s chief negotiator for the contract, said. There was some disappointment over parking subsidies and healthcare benefits. Under the contract, the UC will pay the majority of the benefits’ costs, resulting in lower premium increases for the employees. The union was also seeking a way for
employees to park for free or at a fraction of the cost at the hospitals. Contract negotiations have often times reached a boiling point. The union has gone on strike at least twice in the past year, including in July at all 10 campuses and medical centers statewide. The strike, which affected Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, was called despite a court-issued restraining order that prohibited a walk-out. What still remains at issue is the yearlong talks between the UC and union regarding a new contract for the 8,500 service workers, approximately 96 percent of whom qualify for at least one public assisSEE CONTRACT PAGE 11
Money talks during current election season BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
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CITY HALL When it comes to campaign financing, it pays to be an incumbent. That’s been the case for the four City Councilmembers running for re-election, raising altogether more than $246,000 this year and trumping their nine challengers, who have combined to pull in about $20,000, according to the most recent campaign statements filed on Oct. 6. More than half of the fundraising figure for incumbents comes from businessman Bobby Shriver, who loaned more than $108,000 to his own campaign this year. Aside from Shriver’s portion in the overall fundraising picture, the incumbents have still been able to outraise their challengers, only four of whom have opted to fundraise. One of the biggest differences between the incumbents and challengers’ campaign finance reports is the contribution from the business community and developers. Some of the names on the reports are employees SEE FUNDING PAGE 12
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State home sales jump BY ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES Foreclosure-ravaged housing markets fueled a 65 percent jump in California home sales in September, as bargain hunters kept buying up heavily discounted properties, a real estate tracking firm said Tuesday. The surge in more affordable homes helped drive the statewide median home price down to $283,000, a drop of about 34 percent from $430,000 in the same month last year, according to the survey by MDA DataQuick. In all, 40,317 homes were sold last month. Statewide home sales for the month of September peaked in 2003 at 69,304. “There’s been a significant shift toward more sales in the inland areas and a higher percentage of sales in the area being postforeclosure,” said Andrew LePage, an analyst with MDA DataQuick. Foreclosure resales accounted for 51 percent of preowned home sales last month. The activity was part of a wider regional trend that took hold this summer in markets across the West where the spike in mortgage
defaults and foreclosures has been most pronounced. “There certainly are good opportunities now,” observed Gary Painter, director of research at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate. “It’s going to take another good year (or) year and half before you see sustained price increases.” In California, foreclosures have been centered in inland markets such as the region east of Los Angeles known as the Inland Empire and the state’s Central Valley. Trisha Motter, a real estate agent in San Jose, said one of her clients had to compete with multiple bidders interested in acquiring a foreclosed home last month. “Everybody’s flocking to the really lowpriced homes,” said Motter, an agent with John Motter Realty. “If they’re not priced right ... they’re not moving.” DataQuick said home sales in a ninecounty region around San Francisco Bay jumped 45 percent from a year ago, as the median home price plunged to $400,000, a 36 percent drop from $625,000 in the yearago period. Last month’s median in the region was nearly 40 percent below the peak median of
$665,000 in the summer of 2007. A six-county region of Southern California also saw a sharp jump in home sales and a decline in median price last month. Sales in the region rose by 65 percent, while the median home price fell 33.2 percent to $308,500. Foreclosure resales amounted to half of all those transactions. Among 15 counties highlighted by DataQuick, Contra Costa posted the steepest median home price plunge last month, dropping by 45 percent to $300,000. Home sales in the county rose 94.3 percent to 1,780. Some 30.5 percent of the sales involved homes that were in foreclosure sometime during the past 12 months. Several other counties hit hard by foreclosures have posted annual sales increases during the past few months, suggesting those markets are in the beginning stages of a recovery in terms of buyer demand, LePage suggested. Still, the latest figures represent homes that closed escrow in September on sales that were initiated probably as far back as July and before the U.S. financial crisis reached a boiling point this month.
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Governor says state lawmakers have to address budget woes BY JUDY LIN Associated Press Writer
SACRAMENTO Barely a month after lawmakers passed an overdue state budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will call them back to Sacramento to tackle California’s worsening economy and revenues that already are $3 billion lower than expected. The administration said the special legislative session will work on two levels, addressing the shortfall in this year’s budget and debating how to stimulate California’s economy. During a news conference Tuesday in Southern California, Schwarzenegger said state government should try to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and put billions of dollars in voter-approved infrastructure bonds to use. “I think it is the best thing we can do because we don’t want to wait until the new year to fix some of the problems,” Schwarzenegger said during an appearance at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He did not set a date for lawmakers to reconvene, but aides said the budget crisis is SEE BUDGET PAGE 11
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Clearing things up Editor:
Because of a particularly misleading statement in a mailer opposing Measure T which was received by residents on Oct. 16, the Board of Directors of Friends of Sunset Park must reiterate its position in support of Measure T. The FOSP board endorsed Measure T with only one “no” vote. The lone dissenter is quoted on the cover of the “No on T” brochure as saying: “I studied the traffic analysis. Measure T won’t reduce traffic.” He’s identified as an FOSP board member. The statement is misleading on several counts: • It’s designed to make the reader think that the board member is speaking for the FOSP Board. In fact, he’s the only FOSP board member to oppose Measure T. • Measure T is designed to slow commercial development in our over-developed city for 15 years, to slow the rate of traffic growth. We can’t develop our way out of traffic congestion. In addition, the inside of the brochure lists a number of individuals who oppose Measure T. Please remember that Measure T was put on the ballot by … Santa Monica voters who acted because their pleas for a slowdown in development and traffic growth were being ignored. Measure T supporters include Council members Kevin McKeown and Bobby Shriver, as well as current and former members of the Airport Commission, the Architectural Review Board, the Arts Commission, the Library Board, the Planning Commission, the Recreation and Parks Commission, the Rent Control Board, the Santa Monica Pier Restoration Committee, the Social Services Commission, the Virginia Avenue Park Advisory Board, Friends of 415 PCH, the Library Bond Committee, the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees, the Santa Monica College Citizen Bond Oversight Committee, the Save the Pier Committee, the Task Force on Workforce Housing, and the boards of all the active neighborhood organizations in Santa Monica. Perhaps a decade from now, Santa Monica will have light rail or a subway to help ease the near-gridlock we have on our streets. Until then, it makes no sense to continue our current pace of development, which brings yet more traffic. No matter how expensive and colorful the “No on T” mailings are … the Friends of Sunset Park board urge[s] your YES vote on Measure T.
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“Are you worried what your friends see. Will it ruin your reputation for lovin’ me?” — Foreigner: lyrics to “Dirty White Boy” DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF
racial paranoia that has paralyzed its prefrontal lobes since a Republican president signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Disaffected Southern white Democrats, who chafed beneath the notion that it was politically incorrect to own another human being, founded “good ol’ boys clubs” such as the White League, Red Shirts and the ever-popular KKK. In the years following Republican Reconstruction [1877-1890], dirty white boy Democrats began to enact disenfranchising laws such as poll taxes, literacy tests, whites-only primaries as well as less subtle persuasions including cross burnings, bullwhips and lynching to keep the “uppity” Freedmen “in their place” until the 1960’s. Notable Democrat luminaries “keepin’ it real” in the 1960’s included George Wallace and “Bull” Connor with their traveling circus of attack pooches and fire hoses. Kinder Democrats, meanwhile, had created and nurtured a gentler form of slavery called “welfare.” Reconstructionist Republicans established the first public schools for the children of Freedmen immediately following the Confederate rebellion. Blacks voted in massive numbers and elected 20 men including 13 former slaves to the House of Representatives in the 1870s. In 1899, while the governor of New York, Republican Teddy Roosevelt, pushed a bill desegregating all state schools. He sent the state Assembly a note saying, “… my own children went to school with colored children and it did them no harm … .” Brown v. Board of Education was heralded under a conservative court during Eisenhower’s Administration and was enforced with federal troops. Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, while piously prostituting himself under the League of Nations, segregated black federal employees from the white employees in federal workspaces. Woody believed that a person could be a “citizen of the world” but only if one were sufficiently vanilla-flavored enough for him with which to share a common toilet. During a speaking engagement in Birmingham, Ala., Republican President Warren G. Harding announced his support of the NAACP-sponsored Dyer AntiLynching Law in 1922. While the bill passed in the House, a Democrat-led Senate filibuster killed it on
the floor. In 2005, in a moment of guilt-fed, electoral year pandering, the Congress and Senate issued an apology to the AfricanAmerican community in non-binding “letbygones-be-bygones” resolutions. These mucilaginous manifestos were of deciduously shallow comfort to the descendants of the lynched. Republican administrations can boast of the first black joint chief of staff and secretary of state, as well as the first black woman as the current secretary of state and former national security advisor. Just for giggles, name the highest cabinet ranking that a black man has ever held in a Democrat administration. Give up? It was Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy. A real political heavyweight, eh? I don’t remember him, either. I understand that the Democrats now have a black candidate for president! He’s got a “funny sounding name and doesn’t look like any of the other guys” on the U.S. currency. Imagine my dejection when I found out it wasn’t Bill Cosby, Larry Elder or Robert Downey Jr.! But then again they are “race traitors” because they don’t believe in racial quotas or cyclical regenerations of welfare cattle herbivorously grazing on the taxpayer prairie. But then again, when you “spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody” … especially for the cattle. Nothing is funnier to me than a Democrat castigating me that I am a “racist” Republican. Democrats find it easier to point fingers than to look in the mirror. Their tactical narrative of “post-racial” self-absolution becomes “guilt by dissociation.” Democrats have recently fire-hosed “Joe the Plumber” as though he has committed some sort of identity treason because his full name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher yet chooses to be called by his middle name. Why should the Main Scream Media savage white “Joe the Plumber” all because he had the common intelligence to question Barack Obama about his national socialist economic policy? Dirty Democrats should take a shower in the hot water of their racist history. Then lather up with some soapy facts, rinse, repeat as necessary and not forget to wash out their ears to hear their own screaming. STEVE BREEN is a non-hyphenated American and still “the best looking mailman at the U.S. Post Office.” He can be reached at dulcamarax@yahoo.com.
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Why the gimmicks? HBO’S SUNDAY NIGHT SHOWS ARE THE
stuff of TV legend: “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Six Feet Under,” “Rome,” and “Deadwood.” But HBO hasn’t broadcast anything nearly as good since “The Wire” ended. “True Blood” has potential, though I’ll be really disappointed if the vampires, as they appear to be, are simply a metaphor for people who are open about sex and sexuality. Showtime stepped into the void with “The L Word” and “Dexter,” but I resisted watching either one; the former because I can’t identify with being gay in WeHo (not that there’s anything wrong with it), the latter because a CSI show is a CSI show — even if the main character is a criminologist serial killer — and I’ve had enough of crime scene investigations and their “ghosts in the machine.” Showtime did get me with the first season of “Californication,” but they just might lose me because of the way they promoted the current season. The premise has promise. It’s about a writer transplanted from New York, living on the Westside of L.A., and tortured by his quest to re-claim his lost love; finding his failure to deserve her reflected back at him from the bottom of empty glasses of booze and in the eyes of an endless string of attractive, enthusiastic, yet somehow unsatisfying sexual partners. His first name comes from L.A.’s original Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski (known to his friends as “Hank”), so I didn’t mind that they gave him the hacky last name “Moody.” I wasn’t even mad that the over/under for good speaking black roles is 1.5 (and the under, as always, is a safe bet), I got sucked in anyway. But in an attempt to boost the new season’s ratings, Showtime insulted the audience by getting the show’s star, David Duchovny, into the news in a Moody-esque way. It’s a classic Hollywood trick and it’s never believable. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn conveniently started an on-set romance, then broke up around the time “The Break Up” came out (as if Jennifer Aniston, who favors the square-jawed white guy, would ever seriously date Vince Vaughn and his chins). Showtime’s Duchovny trick was even lamer. A few weeks before the season premiere, they had him check into rehab — reportedly for addiction to porn. That’s right, porn. I have a few problems with this story. First, porn isn’t something you “watch,” it’s something you “use,” and only for a few
minutes at a time. I’m sure there are guys who actually sit and watch porn, but none of them played Fox Mulder on “The X Files.” Second, David Duchovny has been married to the gorgeous Tea Leoni since 1997. I know the saying goes that no matter how hot a woman is, somewhere some guy is tired of sleeping with her — but not Tea Leoni. Duchovny has also reportedly been getting his serve in with a tennis instructor, comparing headshots with a model, sampling the goods of a grocery store clerk, and getting retail therapy from a couple of Rodeo Drive’s finest. The point being that if you can’t shop, eat, or play tennis without falling into some “strange,” you don’t need to use porn, much less watch porn, because you’re getting plenty of the real thing. The story completely falls apart after he checked out and came home. Was there a joyous reunion with David and Tea re-committing to each other and their family? No. Did they take Madelaine and Kyd to pick out pumpkins at the pumpkin patch? No. Instead, they announced that they’ve been separated for months. To top it all off, it comes out that Tea spent a good part of the summer following Billy Bob Thornton’s band around the country from Memphis to New York City — and it’s just a matter of time before she’s wearing a vial of his blood around her neck. So what was the point of rehab? The marriage was over. Tea had become a groupie for Billy Bob, so it wasn’t to save his family. With all the women willing to make house calls (or perform iSight shows) for him, there is no way Dave needed porn. The only answer is because Hank Moody and Vincent Chase are competing for the same eyeballs on Sunday nights, and Showtime wanted to give their 40-something writer an edge over HBO’s young, pretty boy actor. Ironically, there was no need. The hourlong “Entourage” has turned into a juvenile wish-fulfillment fantasy, while “Californication” still has a chance to skewer showbiz from the inside — and is twice as good in half the time. KENNY MACK is a writer, comedian, and social commentator living in Santa Monica who is shopping his book, “Word In Edgewise: The Collected Opinions of America’s Smartest Columnist” to forward-thinking publishers. He can be reached at kennymack@gmail.com
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WASHINGTON First, it was the banks. Now the Federal Reserve has come to the aid of money market funds as the government seeks to break the credit logjam that threatens the global economy. A week after the government announced it would spend $250 billion to buy stakes in U.S. banks, the Fed stepped up Tuesday to help money market funds that have been squeezed by worried investors demanding to cash out their holdings. Meanwhile, the Treasury named two accounting firms to help manage the $700 billion bailout package. There’s still more action to come as the government expands efforts to deal with the credit crisis that has destabilized Wall Street and raised fears that the country could tumble into a deep recession. The Fed said it would provide up to $540 billion in financing to money market mutual funds in a new program called the Money Market Investor Funding Facility. “The government is doing everything it can to break the logjam,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “If these money markets are not working properly, then the economy is significantly
threatened because this is where businesses get their short-term financing for their day-to-day operations.” JPMorgan Chase & Co. was chosen to run five special funds that will buy from money market mutual funds certificates of deposit, bank notes and commercial paper, which is short-term debt companies issue to raise money for payroll or supplies. Money market funds hold about one-third of commercial paper. Fed officials said that about $500 billion has flowed out of prime money market funds since August as investors worried about their ability to redeem shares. On Sept. 18, the Treasury Department announced it was tapping a $50 billion Treasury fund to provide guarantees for the assets in the money market accounts. The Fed has already announced that starting next Monday it will begin making direct purchases of commercial paper in a further effort to bolster this market. Also Tuesday, the Treasury Department announced that it had selected two major accounting firms to help manage the government’s $700 billion rescue program for the financial system. The department announced that Ernst & Young would receive an initial contract for $492,000 to provide accounting services, and
Pricewaterhouse Coopers would get nearly $191,500 to set up internal controls for the part of $700 billion program that will focus on buying distressed real estate assets from banks as a way to encourage new lending. The government could select later this week the five to 10 asset-management firms that will supervise the government’s purchases of distressed home mortgages and securities backed by those loans. The program is initially expected to spend $100 billion of the $700 billion bailout package on those purchases. Another $250 billion will be used by the government to buy stock in hundreds of banks to bolster their reserves, another effort to unfreeze the credit markets. The initiatives seem to be having a positive effect. Yields on Treasury bills and the interest rates banks charge to other banks have both fallen back to late-September levels. But Wall Street pulled back Tuesday as investors decided to cash in some of the big gains of the previous session. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 231.77 points, a retreat following a gain of 413 points on Monday. Analysts said the stock markets were reacting with caution because they expect further turmoil stemming from credit markets that appear to be thawing, but only at a slow pace.
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SAN FRANCISCO Mired in a deep slump, Yahoo Inc. will fire at least 1,500 workers to cope with a crumbling economy that dented its third-quarter profit and turned up the heat on the Internet company’s management as investors stew over a missed opportunity to sell to Microsoft Corp. for $47.5 billion. The purge outlined Tuesday represents a 10 percent reduction in Yahoo’s payroll of about 15,000 employees. It’s the second time in nine months that Yahoo has resorted to mass layoffs in what so far has been an ineffectual effort to rebound from a financial funk that has left its stock price near a 5Ω-year low. Things got worse in the third quarter as Yahoo earned $54.3 million, or 4 cents per share. That was a plunge of 64 percent from $151.3 million, or 11 cents per share, at the same time last year. It was far below the average earnings estimate of 9 cents per share among analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters. Revenue rose 1 percent to $1.79 billion. After subtracting commissions paid to advertising partners, Yahoo said its revenue stood at $1.32 billion about $50 million below analyst estimates. Yahoo shares gained 67 cents, or 5.6 percent in extended trading after ending the regular session at $12.07, down 79 cents. The depressed stock price is particularly galling to Yahoo stockholders, given that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company had a chance to sell to Microsoft for $33 per share in early May. But Microsoft withdrew its offer after Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang balked at the price because he believes his turnaround plan would yield even bigger returns. Yang’s rebuff is now looking like a horrible mistake as online advertisers rein in their spending to save money in what is expected to be the worst recession in a quarter century. Like most Internet companies, Yahoo relies on advertising for most of its profits. Reflecting the downturn, Yahoo lowered its revenue estimates for the remainder of the year.
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HOLLYWOOD Film enthusiasts get ready for a week-long bonanza of screenings, competitions and awards as the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival kicks off today at the ArcLight Theatres. The Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards were created to bridge the gap between Hollywood and the global creative community, while at the same time honoring established local professionals. This year’s film festival features a newly added line-up (just in time for Halloween): the Hollywood Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival (held in conjunction with Film Threat). If hard-core horror is not your thing, check out “Blood on the Highway,” a comedy/horror, directed by Barak Epstein and Blair Rowan about a three 20-somethings on a road trip who accidentally wander into Fate, Texas, only to find the town populated by bloodthirsty, dimwitted vampires. For those of you less inclined to view a scare fest, fear not, as there are plenty of comedies, dramas and documentaries as well. Don’t miss, “Certifiably Jonathan,” director Jim Pasternak’s documentary of comic icon and artist Jonathan Winters. Winters wants his paintings to hang in the Museum of Modern Art, but thinks he’s lost his sense of humor and can’t finish his paintings for his big exhibition. Everyone from Robin Williams to Sarah Silverman shows up to help him get his mojo back. The festival is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most prestigious celebrations of the motion picture art form, and includes screenings, world premieres and the starstudded Hollywood Awards. This year’s award ceremony will be co-chaired by Paul Haggis (presented by Starz) and will honor the Screen Actors Guild on its 75th anniversary in recognition of the guild’s continued support and promotion of acting profession worldwide. The presentation will take place at the prestigious Hollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Oct. 27. The festival is open to the general public but tickets must be purchased in advance. For more information, to purchase VIP passes and/or tickets to the festival visit, www.hollywoodfestival.com.
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LOS ANGELES Universal Pictures is in talks to sell niche film label Rogue Pictures to its longtime financing partner Relativity Media LLC for as much as $150 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Talks are for Relativity to acquire Rogue’s brand, catalog and upcoming releases, about four next year, although Universal will continue to distribute its films, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deal was not complete. The disclosure comes just days after division Chief Executive Jeff Zucker sent a memo to staff Friday announcing a budget cut of $500 million, or 3 percent, in 2009. The discussions began well before Universal Pictures’ decision last week to distribute up to six movies a year from Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio, which split from Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures early this month, the person said. Rogue is set to release four films in 2009 including the Wes Craven serial killer horror movie “25/8,” and “Fighting,” starring Terrence Howard and Channing Tatum.
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Battle continues for UC service workers FROM CONTRACT PAGE 1 tance program, Harrison said. “This is only part one of the fight,” she said in reference to the patient care workers’ contract. The two parties have not met in a formal bargaining session for several weeks. The latest offer by the university would provide $20.3 million in total wage increases over the next 27 months, which would include $11.3 million in the first year with wages ranging from $10.28 to $13.25 an hour. The UC has tripled its wage offer from the first time it was presented, according to Paul Schwartz, spokesman for the University Office of the President. The negotiations process has been impacted by the economic situation and budget deficit in the state, which is the single largest source of funding for salaries and wages for service employees, Schwartz said. The recently-passed budget does not provide any flexibility for salary increases. “We’re facing very difficult financial challenges, at the same time we recognize that the salaries of many of our employees lag the
market and we are trying to do what we can to address those issues but that takes resources,” he said. Harrison refuted the argument that the UC has made regarding the impact from the economy, claiming that the university is capable of providing increases because of the raises it has given in the past year to its executives, some of which are five-figure bonuses per individual. She pointed out some of the challenges that the workers face, including losing homes to foreclosure. “It’s hard for us to tell workers they can’t get paid when we see the university spend money on what they’re spending money on,” she said. But the numbers need to be seen in context, taking into account that an increase to an executive’s salary doesn’t take as much resources as raises for tens of thousands of employees, Schwartz said. “We’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars versus tens of thousands of dollars for an individual,” he said. “A lot of it is simply the difference in scale.” melodyh@smdp.com
Democrats agree with governor’s plea FROM BUDGET PAGE 3 so severe that a special session must be called before the new Legislature is sworn in Dec. 1. Schwarzenegger said leaders will continue to meet weekly to get updates on the state’s fiscal condition so they can “march in the same direction.” Last month, lawmakers approved a budget that filled a $15.2 billion deficit with spending cuts and accounting gimmicks after Republicans rejected various proposals from Schwarzenegger and Democrats to increase taxes. Since then, Schwarzenegger’s finance staff estimated that revenue has slipped $3 billion for the current fiscal year, which started July 1. The slowdown in tax collection has wiped out a $1.7 billion reserve and put the state $1.3 billion in the red. It’s not yet clear how the state’s budget will look for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The state is expecting updated financial numbers
in the next few weeks. Democrats, who hold a majority in the Legislature, agreed with Schwarzenegger’s call for infrastructure spending but noted that there has not been agreement or a proposal from the governor for tackling the deficit. So far, the governor and legislative leaders have met just twice, once by teleconference. “I think we should go in only when there’s an ironclad agreement between not only the legislative branch and the governor, but between the parties,” said incoming Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. “It just wouldn’t make sense for us to go in without the parameters of an agreement.” The timing of the special session is an important political calculation for the governor. Lawmakers whose terms expire this year might be willing to vote for a temporary tax increase or other unpopular ways to bring in extra revenue.
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I’VE BEEN SPENDING MORE TIME TALKING WITH VOTERS AND STUDYING THE ISSUES RATHER THAN DIALING FOR DOLLARS.” Linda Piera-Avila City Council candidate
“I hope I can get the message out that people need to really get involved in the process, go to the candidates forums and get information from CityTV and the League of Women Voters’ Web site,” Rubin said. “It shouldn’t be just predicated on a PR-driven expensive slick mailing arriving 20 times in your mailbox.” Jon Mann, a free Internet advocate who has run for council more than a half dozen times, Treesaver Herbert Silverstein, homeless women advocate Linda Armstrong, and young upstart John Blakely have not raised any money. OUTRAISING SCHOOL INCUMBENTS
In the traditionally smaller-scale school board races, Chris Bley, who teaches at the Brentwood School, has outdone his competitors, raising more than $19,500 as of Sept. 30. Incumbents Maria Leon-Vazquez and Jose Escarce and newcomer Ben Allen have raised a combined $12,771 during that time. Among Bley’s donors are family members, who have given more than $2,300. But the majority of donations are from special education advocates from the district and the Los Angeles area, which Bley attributes to his stance to bring change to the troubled special education program. Bley has brought in another $10,000 since the end of the previous filing period. “I’ve knocked on many doors in Santa Monica and Malibu, going out and making sure I’ve talked to everyone in every place possible, not just in special education,” he said. OTHER RACES ARE QUIET
Not much has been happening on the fundraising fronts in the other two local races. Robert Kronovet, who is vying for one of two available seats on the Rent Control Board, is the lone candidate who has raised money for his campaign. The realtor has raised about $3,100 this year. He is up against incumbent Joel Koury and newcomer Christopher Braun, both of whom have been backed by Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights. There’s been slightly more activity in the SMC board race where the three incumbents have brought in a combined $17,000, the majority of which comes from Margaret Quinones-Perez who raised more than $13,400 this year. Heidi Hoeck, an interior designer who served as the president of the college’s Associated Students, has not raised any money. The next filing period is Oct. 23. melodyh@smdp.com
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CHUCK
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■ The brain "fingerprinting" work mentioned here in 2000 and 2003, whose hypothesis is that different areas of the brain are active when a person recalls an actual experience, as opposed to recalling merely learned information, was used in June in Pune, India, to secure a woman's murder conviction. A neuroscientist convinced the judge that the suspect's responses to questions could only have come had she actually made a purchase of the arsenic in question and traveled the exact route taken by the alleged killer. ■ Daytime burglar John Pearce, 32, was arrested in Dartford, England, in August after getting his foot caught in a window and hanging upside down for over an hour in full view of congregating (and taunting) neighbors before police arrived. However, in Chester Township, Pa., in July, scrap-metal burglar Charles Ancrum, 50, beat that record, hanging from a window for an entire weekend, dead, after he broke his neck attempting to climb into a residential garage. (While sticking his head through a small window, he fell off the sawhorse he was standing on.)
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Speed Bump
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Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden. bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio. Apollo 7 returned safely, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. the U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment — a decision that precipitated the Iran hostage crisis. the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August. President Reagan signed into law sweeping tax-overhaul legislation.
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