Can the Sacramento Bee get a clue?

It’s a crying shame, but Gov. Jerry Brown had no choice but to cave and exempt transit workers from the state’s pension reform law, at least temporarily. The U.S. Department of Labor was poised to cut off billions in federal grants to local transit districts if California did not back off. So the governor has made a necessary strategic retreat.
But he cannot afford to surrender. Brown says he plans to pursue the issue in court. Sacramento Regional Transit is the test case. Because RT complied with state law and applied pension reform to its workers, the federal government withdrew $54 million in federal funding previously approved for work on RT’s light-rail extension to Elk Grove. Some $14 million of that money may be lost permanently because the bill to exempt transit workers from pension reform, which the governor has pledged to sign, won’t reach his desk in time to forestall federal action on part of the grant. Statewide, some $1.6 billion was at risk this year alone. Sac Bee

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Notice that the Sac Bee editorial wants to stop federal interference so they can get federal funding for their useless light rail. Maybe the Bee will figure out that the federal interference comes with federal goodies, and we suffer a 25% discount whenever our taxes take a round trip to DC and back. Anybody think the Sac Bee can figure this out? No, the Sac Bee is clueless.