Proposition 1A is the key ballot measure being placed before the voters in May to address the state budget debacle. I am opposed to it because it does not address the problems facing the state budgets and will amount to nothing more than continuing the same dysfunctional government.

Newsom drew an unexpectedly large crowd, and a very enthusiastic one at that. Being a Republican, I don't often go to what felt like an insider Democratic Party event, and this was a very progressive liberal crowd.