health programs for poor have been cut back, fixing those problems should fall to the state legislature and the governor. but as in washington, sacramento is the uc in a pattern of partisan wrangling, wrangling the public seems eager to see end. sacramento bee political columnist dan walters has been covering the state capitol for 40 years. >> the inability to balance the budget and it reflects people's general unhappiness with the economy and their lives, i guess in california these days. there is a tendency to blame those in political power when that happens. >> the result, walters says is cynicism about what happens at the state capitol. >> too much time bickering and arguing. they don't get anything done. >> you have two sides that are trying to one-upmanship then it things don't get done. >> some fed up with the political paralysis are coming up with their own way to solve problems. a billionaire with family ties to california put up $20 million to fund a bipartisan reform panel called think long. >> california reflects what is happening in washington. you've got two sides that hav

only the state legislature can limit the size of a knife you can carry. there was concerns about bayonets, machetes, and other types banned one place and not in another. there are no restrictions on the knives either. i thought it would be interesting for us to talk about the politicians in the state who are the leaders of the state. we will talk to art about this. from my perspective, a lot of the leaders here in joy thumbing their nose at the federal government. they take great pleasure, particularly with president obama in office. in general, there is this sense that they view the federal government as an impediment to their freedom. whether it is challenging the u.s. constitution when it comes to birthright citizenship or taking on the health care reform that passed in the congress, and you have a lot of challenges, court cases coming out of arizona. what other part of the country can you know the name of the county sheriff? >> hazard county, alabama. >> jan brewer is a well-known governor. the leader is of this state have become known across the coun

election of senators it is important because prior to back, they were formally chosen by state legislatures and you could make a plausible argument the senate had something to do to protect federalism because it could construct the story whereby senators to keep their jobs 1/2 to have the a good will of state legislators and this meant and once they are all elected didn't need to worry about big government. so from my perspective the modern said it is nothing more than affirmative-action program for the residents of the small states and of all affirmative-action programs in the country this is probably the least sensible that is why they have the most ridiculous the federation for the constitution in the framers themselves. if there was no precedent for the united states constitution but they were in a very hot philadelphia suburb trying to figure out the first draft and i think it would have been astonished at the fact and has been new national convention since 1787 of the article provide -- article by provides for the operation avoid it down very few amendments. >> host: professor levinso

, state legislature to get the kind of incentives you want. local municipalities don't have the tools to provide the incentives. there are a lot of things they can do, permit, but they can't reduce the property tax on their owns. you can't reduce benefits unless you have a 2/3 vote of the people in the area. i think you need to go to the legislature. i would be remiss to say we keep thinking 22 years ago. we still haven't repaired the bridge yet. the bridge will be ready hopefully next year. so 22, 23 years later. >> i would just like to say it is extremely difficult to get people engaged in advance to do the things that need to be done and then there's a lot of people, as you mentioned, that will be visits or what not -- visiting or what not that would have no clue. so i think probably as a strategy maybe the next level of the certain nert training is to actually think about ways of postdisaster immediate communication and engagement with people so they can be brought up to speed about the fact that this structure does exist and there is a se

amendment because prior to the 17th amendment senators were at least formally chosen by state legislatures, and you could make a halfway plausible argument that the senate had something to do with protecting federalism. because you could construct a story whereby senators would worry about keeping their jobs. to keep their jobs, they would have to have the goodwill of state legislators, and this meant that they would have to be concerned with protecting the prerogatives of state government, things like that. once senators are popularly elected, they don't need to worry about state government. what they worry about is bringing home the bacon. and so from the my perspective the modern senate is nothing more than an affirmative action program for the residents of small states. and i think that of all of the affirmative action programs in the country, this is probably the least defensible. um, but, um, yes. i mean, to go back to your initial question, i think the americans have at times the most ridiculous veneration for the constitution, far more so than the framers themselves who recognized

the first step is the state legislature to change. if we do not get there, we cannot really do anything. we will put a paper together with the best practices. most states are moving to this. it's so difficult administratively to review every disabled placard and evaluate the disability of that person. they're just saying, they are asking them to pay for the access. that is sort of the underlying model of the implementation. that is the policy premised. supervisor campos: i'm still not clear on the connection of expanding the blue zones in the city. that seems like a completely different conversation than the abuse. this is to come later. president chiu: what is the state of the state legislature. ? >> where we are on that right now, we put this item into the state for legislative program, which should be approved soon. the mayor's office has also agreed to assist us, in most localities have agreed to assist us. we're taking a leadership position on this. they are waiting for us to get everyone together and move this -- we have had pre

it was created so no majority in the legislature could feather their own nest. while there's not 100% satisfaction, at least on my behalf, what is true is what the governor did and the state senate did was i think is potentially illegal, unconstitutional and they did it in the middle with no time, no due process for the chair of the commission to be able to respond and more importantly, it's a kangaroo court. this was all predetermined. this is to protect the four incumbent republicans that are in congress right now to make sure that they have a district that secures them. and i really believe that what has been done here adds another very ugly and painful episode to the legacy that jan brewer and this legislature have provided to the nation about arizona. that's not the people of arizona, but certainly our political leadership in the state continues to try to muscle, heavy handed way of trying to direct politics and create a culture for the next ten years that they will be able to control. this is going to be fought by people in arizona because this is not what

. >> legislatures can stop this -- >> the legislature is a safeguard and if the court believes there needs to be a fourth amendment safeguard as well, we have urged fallback position that the courts adopt reasonable suspicion standard which would allow the police to conduct surveillance of individuals in their movements on public roadways which they can do visually in any event and would allow the police to investigate tips that arise under circumstances where there is not probable cause. >> who would be judge of reasonable suspicion? >> as in most reasonable suspicion cases the police at the front end and the courts at the back end if there are motions to suppress evidence. fundamentally in the pen register example and financial records example if this court concludes consistent with it earlier cases this is not a search yet all americans find it to be an omen of 1984 congress would stand ready to provide appropriate protection. i will save the rest of my time. >> questions have beaten into your rebuttal time. we will give you the full time. >> made it please the court on want to ta

we pay our legislature $600 a positive.live under the laws they pass. >>neil: i see the wisdom of that, but say you are from the oil or banking industry, and you are not just sort of paid part time lobbyist. >>guest: well,s look, those kind of protections can be put in place. it works in texas. we have people that are doctors that are veterinarians, we have folks from all across, because they know they can come, they can be part time legislatures, and that is what our founding fathers had in mind. this idea we have allowed this culture to grow up in washington, dc, where the corporate lobbyists and the contractors and all of those individuals are feeding at the trough and everyone is in on the game, that has to stop. that is the reason not only will i call for this part time legislature, i will go to the american people and i hope i lead an uprising in the country to have that type of thought process really penetrating through. and talk about debt. if we don't get a balanced budget in place by 2020 they don't get elected. i

i just don't think there's enough sport in the legislature yet. >> mr.galbraith. >> i think if restaurant and other places ought to have smoking areas as long as they meet a local -- i think it's another big brotherism. >> not the secondhand smoke? >> sure i believe those things. matter of fact i've got emphysema because i smoke cigarettes. i department pay attention to my mom when she told me they were bad for myself. we've got technology to put people up in a capsule. we certainly if the business owner wants to make an investment and high ventilation and -- where his smokers to smoke and if it will not bother anybody else and by golly putting that money into the business they ought to have the right to do so. >> would you support this legislation? >> i won't get more personal than that, but i do believe that there's too much opposition to this as a property rights issue. i do not think that it would serve anyone well to advance legislation at this time or to advance statewide smoke ago. >> one time a couple of years ago you did propose it and -- >> i h

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get with the legislature. they control the purse strings. now the occupy movement has said go to the people on the bank boards. go to the people who have the money. the students are all too happy to look at which regions are on boards of banks and say do something for us. you have the power. this is really energized the campuses. they are setting up the tents. unfortunately they are also being batoned by police because universities don't want the encampme encampments. >> one of the things that the occupiers are doing is asking individual regions to please sign a pledge that they will rescind the tuition increases, that they will stand against prop 13, tax loopholes for commercial businesses. that's what the occupiers want. not one trustee of the california state university has done so. >> belva: well, this week there were more hikes. >> there were. the trustees raised tuition 9%. that was on top of 12.5% earlier this summer. in all, i think for both university systems, the price of the undergraduate year is three times what it was ten years

that three-judge panel ruled that the texas legislature used an improper standard to determine whiche ability to elect their preferred candidates of choice. this is not the first time that redistricting has been an issue in texas. after all, partisan redistricting in texas is part of what brought us this timeless mugshot -- hi -- of former republican house majority leader tom delay. delighted to be here. after the courts essentially said they'd take over the process in texas because the texas legislature couldn't -- the "star telegram" said texas needs an independent nonpartisan body to do its work, to draw its congressional lines. just take politics out of. it let it be a technocratic thing. bring objectivity into the process. you know who already has that? arizona. arizona in its wisdom formed itself an independent redistricting commission a decade ago to avoid texas-style partisan embarrassment -- hi, tom -- on the subject. earlier this month as their independent commission was finishing up their work on a draft for a congressional district map for 2012, arizona's republican gover

but we know what he told the legislature when he was seeking this exemption. he said he wanted penn state to be exempt from the records because he needed to protect the competitiveness of the university. that he was concerned about the cost of compliance and that a huge bureaucracy would have to be built to answer questions and open those public records. looking back on it now, it has a whole different look. carol? >> drew griffin reporting. thanks. >>> occupy wall street protesters back in lower manhattan's zuccotti park overnight, but they're not as comfy. last night a judge ruled the protesters who were cleared out of the park in a surprise raid by police hours earlier could come back but without the tents, the tarps, generators and camping equipment. protesters say they were not allowed to lie down or even sit. one tweeted they're wandering around like ants. >>> it's getting tougher for the 99% across the country, even the continent. it looks like it could be the beginning of the end for occupy dallas. the mayor there saying they have one more night after

that three-judge panel ruled that the texas legislature used an improper standard to determine whichts afford minority voters the ability to elect their preferred candidates of choice. this is not the first time that redistricting has been an issue in texas. after all, partisan redistricting in texas is part of what brought us this timeless mugshot -- hi -- of former republican house majority leader tom delay. delighted to be here. after the courts essentially said they'd take over the process in texas because the texas legislature couldn't stop illegally politicizing. the ""star telegram"" said texas needs an independent nonpartisan body to do its work, to draw its congressional lines. just take politics out of. let it be a technocratic thing. bring objectivity into the process. you know who already has that? arizona. arizona in its wisdom formed itself an independent redistricting commission a decade ago to avoid texas-style partisan embarrassment -- hi, tom -- on the subject. earlier this month as their independent commission was finishing up their work on a draft for a congressio

the legislatures elected the senators. that is -- there were blacks who were elected by legislatures to represent their states in the senate. one of the first and most interesting stories in the book is the story of hy rival who was the first black to represent the state in the senate. the thing about hiram revel was selected by the mississippi legislature to fill the seat that had been occupied by jefferson davis. jefferson davis had been the president of the confederacy. in the mississippi legislature chose a black man to fill the seat that had previously been occupied by jefferson davis. let talk about this in the book. when hiram reverend goes to represent mississippi as a senator, reconstruction era senator there is a big debate whether he can be seated because some took the position you cannot lawfully be seated because after all, before the promulgation of the fourteenth amendment in eighteen 68 blacks could not be citizens of the united states according to the infamous brad scott decision. so there was a big fight.

constitution gives the state legislature alone the responsibility for redistricting.eral judge. spending public money this way has raised public eyebrows. >> people have been outraged about it, absolutely outraged, as well they should be. >> how far will incumbents go to try to keep a seat in congress? well, it's 2,019 miles from cleveland to seattle. >> hello, seattle! >> dennis kucinich flew there fearing he might be drawn out of his seat in ohio. you made several trips, i think five trips to seattle and seem to flirt with the idea about running for congress in washington state. >> well, i receive many invitations to speak there, and i'd been going out there for years and to many places in country. >> the eight-term congressman speaking at the pro-marijuana hemp fest last spring. >> seattle, you shook the world once. can you shake it again? i ask you. >> this was not a campaign appearance. he says. when you were told your district in ohio would be wiped out, you weren't even considering a race in washington state, considering a district in washington state? >> i hav