A billion-dollar stare down with federal officials ended this morning with an announcement that Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed legislation to exempt roughly 20,000 mass transit employees from California's new pension law. The measure, which is expected to move swiftly through the Legislature, was prompted by the U.S. Department of Labor's decision today to suspend millions of dollars in grant money for the Sacramento Regional Transit District. Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2013/09/jerry-brown-backs-bill-to-let-transit-workers-sidestep-pension-law.html#storylink=cpy Sac BeeI have news for Jerry, the real reason transit subsidies are at risk is because DC is broke. Sequestering is cutting that stream of money that Jerry and the Undemocrats said was infinite. The day is arriving where California cuts the deadweight loss making light rails off, or we go broke funding them.
A second point for Jerry, is California pays a 25% premium in federal taxes, that is our money to begin with
Third, this is the basic problem of being short eight Senators, being unrepresented in DC.
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