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  • Gov. Jerry Brown’s hit list needs more diversity

    06/12/2011 9:24:08 PM PDT · by SmithL · 3 replies
    San Francisco Examiner ^ | 6/12/11 | K. Lloyd Billingsley
    Gov. Jerry Brown wants to eliminate dozens of state panels and commissions, a good idea and long overdue. But the governor needs to be more inclusive, and stalk bigger game. His list includes the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a typical soft landing spot for ex-legislators. They meet about once a month but get paid $128,109 a year, more than they were paid as legislators, as the Sacramento Bee recently noted. Such ruling-class parasitism doesn’t help balance the budget. The governor also wants to eliminate the California Commission on the Status of Women, which began on the watch of his father,...