Friday, August 31, 2012
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		HJTA: Taxpayer Red Alert - NO on SB 1455, a $2 billion tax extension!
		
 - *FR TAXPAYER ALERT* Democrats Push Massive Car Tax Bill
 - FR TaxPayer Alert Video
 - SacBee: Bill to extend car, tire fees draws opposition
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		OBSERVATIONS FROM TAMPA
		
 - Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention
 - SDUT: Local analysis: Ron Nehring on Romney's acceptance speech
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		CalCap: Brown to Decide on Allowing Off-Reservation Tribal Casinos
		
 - VCS:Lawmakers tackle health care issues, parks funds as end of session nears
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		SDUT: Lawmakers push fee hikes in final days
		
 - LATimes($): California lawmakers approve medical parole for county jail inmates
 - LATimes($): Lawmakers approve new protections for farm workers
 - CCTimes: Some sex predators would be kept off California streets under avalanche of bills passed Thursday
 - SacBee: California bills aimed at better worker conditions head to Gov. Jerry Brown
 - SJMerc: Bill passes to keep mentally ill sex predators off California streets
 - SacBee: Sexual orientation therapy measure goes to governor
 - CalCap: Landmark Bill Banning Sexual Orientation Change Therapy for Minors On Governor's Desk
 - SacBee: Assemblyman's teacher rating bill shelved
 - SacBee:Bill allowing some nurses to perform abortions goes to Jerry Brown
 - DesSun:'Lucy's Law' voted down
 - LATimes($): California Legislature OKs two-year moratorium on park closures
 
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		SDUT: GOP State Senate candidate passes on 'no-tax' pledge
		
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		IVDB: Pension reform vote set for Friday
		
 - CCTimes: $200K Club: Government retirees won't be hit by pension reform
 - OCReg:Pension reform proposal: Much ado about nothing?
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		DesSun:Palm Desert delegate's boots create some gawking
		
 - CCT Political Blotter: Alamo woman praises Mitt in convention speech
 - RivPE: CONVENTION: Inland Republicans rejoice as Romney accepts presidential nomination
 - SacBee:CA woman shares story of Mitt Romney, sick daughter at RNC
 - OCReg: O.C. delegates: Romney speech's best parts
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		CCT Political Blotter: Latest poll numbers on November ballot measures
		
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		SDUT: Illegal immigrant license bill goes to governor
		
 - SacBee: California driver's license bill passes
 - OCReg: Assembly OKs bill to give immigrants licenses
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		SacBee: Federal judge organizes ice cream social for the seersucker crowd
		
 - LADN: Public fundraising appeal aims to pay bills of good Samaritans electrocuted in Valley Village
 - LADN: Hillside landowners face vote on tax to preserve open land
 - LATimes($): California lawmakers consider bailout for Inglewood schools
 - OCReg: Santa Ana city manager's endorsement: Conflict or not?
 - RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Budget plan criticized
 - LATimes($): San Bernardino to use restricted funds for payroll
 - SBSun: Cuts go deep at San Bernardino City Hall
 - RivPE: LEGISLATURE Last-minute effort to restore funding
 - SDUT: Top priority for SD small businesses: 'Fix roads'
 - SDUT: DA drops case against Tri-City board member
 - SDUT: Mayoral candidates and pension cuts
 - NCTimes: OCEANSIDE: School officials discuss controversial bonds
 
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The Golden Pen
		SDUT: For state budget, nothing to ‘like’ about Facebook IPO 
		
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		IVDB: Tax hike won't help education
		
 - OCReg: Editorial: Demise of redevelopment too good to last
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		F&H Daily: Politicians Fail on Pensions, Voters Must Step Up Again
		
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		SacBee: Pension overhaul plan falls short
		
 - SacBee:Dan Walters Daily: What will end-of-session scramble bring?
 - SacBee: Another View: Democrats are hardly the party of tolerance
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		F&H Daily: Sausage Gets Made Today in Sacramento
		
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		F&H Daily: Poll: Yes to Public Pension Reform, No to State Run Private Workers Pensions
		
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		SFChron: Dirty Harry meets Clean Mitt
		
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		CalWatchdog: NEW: Unions target nannies and farm workers
		
 - CalWatchdog: NEW: Quantity, not quality, in Calif Assembly
 - CalWatchdog: NEW: Politics pollutes "water rights" bill
 - WSJ: George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan
 - CalWatchdog: AB 296 could make Gov. Brown a global warming ‘denier’
 - CalWatchdog: NEW: Prop. 31 would regionalize state revenue sharing
 - SacBee: Sacramento police chief saysTwin Rivers force should contract with his department
 - SJMerc: Water district wins court challenge to fix clerical error on $548 million parcel tax measure
 - SFChron: Billions at stake in vote on Prop. F
 - FresBee: Fresno council orders meeting on animal control
 - BakCal: Salas unleashes attack ads on Assembly rival
 - SLO Trib: Fate of county's plastic bag ban in the hands of a judge
 - VCS:Simi council candidate ordered to revise ballot designation
 
