Kerry Jackson Comments About Gov. Newsom Signing AB 5 in Forbes
Forbes | Kerry Jackson
September 19, 2019
Kerry Jackson, a Fellow in California Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, is one of them. “If the governor signs the bill, a lot of those workers who were cheering when it passed are going regret that it was ever introduced,” he says.
“They’re no longer going to be able to decide when they work and for how long, they’ll lose the freedom they had to work for multiple companies at the same time, and they’re going to chafe at being supervised in ways they weren’t before.”
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California State Senate Hands Newsom Decade-old Political Lightning Rod in Redevelopment Agencies
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
September 19, 2019
As written, Senate Bill 5 gives cities and counties the ability to take local property tax revenue dedicated to schools for affordable housing and infrastructure improvements. While the new redevelopment agencies combat California’s housing crisis, it could pit some elected officials and the groups that support them against one another.
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Is California Already Tired of Newsom’s “Winning” So Much This Legislative Session?
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
September 18, 2019
Now that the 2019 legislative session is over, Gov. Gavin Newsom may be making the same boast. California’s new governor was, by all accounts, the big winner of this year’s legislative session.
Unlike his predecessors, he was hands on, getting in the weeds on policy minutiae, and prevailed on virtually every one of his administration’s top priorities. From vaccines to independent contractors, Newsom was personally at the center of virtually every big “deal” cut at the State Capitol this year.
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California Homeless Czar Overthrown In Favor of Task Force
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
September 16, 2019
Similarly, Newsom’s task force will be like a team of full-time diversity officers at a major university, burning through resources while doing meaningless work.
As colleague Tim Anaya has noted, take a look at the roster of “task force members and you’ll see the commissioners have one thing in common — they all represent a government-only approach to addressing California’s homeless crisis.”
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