Matsui Forum
California's Next Governor: What Should the Agenda Be?
Monday, September 20, 2010
Watch the webcast [YouTube]
Whoever wins the November election, California's next governor will take over a state with chronic budget deficits, immense policy challenges, and a system of governance that many view as broken. What should the new governor do? Tackle the budget deficits by cutting spending or raising taxes? Try to create a more stable revenue stream? Change term limits? Abolish the two-thirds vote requirement for the budget? Pursue other reforms?
We examined the options that faced the winner of one of the toughest political jobs in America.
Panelists:
Mark Paul, senior scholar, New America Foundation, and author of California Crack-Up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Debra J. Saunders, columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Yvonne Walker, president, SEIU Local 1000, California's largest state employee union
Bill Whalen, research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Moderator:
The Honorable Ted Lempert, former member, California Assembly; president, Children NOW; lecturer, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Bill Whalen photo courtesy of the Hoover Institution
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