Just eight state lawmakers who served during the Great Recession remain in office — and none hold meaningful positions of power.
Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire has rewarded close allies with powerful panels upon securing power. | Rich Pedroncelli/APSACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to solve one of the biggest challenges of his tenure.
New Democratic leaders also have to unify their caucuses behind deep spending cuts — something hardly any members have had to vote for in the past — and each house has held policy retreats focused intensely on that goal. They also don’t have a lot of time, a reality Newsom touched on with reporters after ducking out of a recent “quick check-in” with Assembly leaders.
While McGuire kept several committee chairs in place, he did replace state Sen. Nancy Skinner, 69, as Budget chair — one of the few holdovers from the Great Recession — with housing and transit-focused Sen. Scott Wiener, 53, a rising star in the party. The Senate leader said he made the change because the two men share an “honest, open, blunt and transparent” style in approaching “tough budgeting.
“This is the first time in many, many years that the leadership has not been from Southern California, so that’s an additional reason why we needed to be here,” Bass, who was Assembly speaker from 2008 to 2010, told reporters last month. “They know the tricks of budgeting,” said Blumenfield, now a Los Angeles City councilmember. “Not only Budget-101, but the advanced-level 504 class or whatever it would be. They’ve got their doctorates in creative budgeting.”
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