This originally ran as an
Op-Ed in the East Bay Times, Friday, August 12.
As the Legislature closes in on the end of this two-year
legislative cycle, we’d like to shed some light on a particularly
onerous bill that, if passed, will cost $350 million annually to
taxpayers without providing any discernible benefit to employees,
only the unions that represent them. AB 2835 by Assembly Member
Jim Cooper is a solution in search of a problem.
This was originally published as an OpEd in the Sacramento
Bee on August 25, 2015
California is home to some of the nation’s most deteriorated
streets, highways and bridges, with four of the five cities with
the worst road conditions in the United States and 55 percent of
local bridges requiring rehabilitation or replacement. This
disrepair is costing California motorists the most – nearly $762
annually per driver on average, and even more in some areas.
