Posts Tagged: Bloom

Transit workers’ pensions resolved — for now

The Metrolink station in Buena Park

by Rich Ehisen posted 10.08.2013

Gov. Brown’s signing of legislation to exempt some 20,000 California transit workers from public pension changes could mean at least $1.6 billion — and perhaps more than $4 billion — in federal funds for California.

In the last election, two Assembly candidates did something that isn’t often accomplished in legislative elections, but is more likely following redistricting: They beat an incumbent.

From two of the most liberal, Anglo, affluent, coastal districts in the state, Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, and Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, were able to defeat incumbents, Betsy Butler