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The Legislative Analyst’s Office is rapidly losing credibility in Sacramento, thanks to its uninformed attack on the high speed rail project. Rather than provide neutral, impartial, and informed analysis, the LAO has instead decided to launch a highly politicized effort to intervene in the Legislature’s policy-making role in order to undermine a voter-approved project. Late [...]
The concept of a Legislative Analyst Office is a good one. The state legislature ought to have a neutral, independent, non-partisan research bureau that is devoted to giving legislators facts and insight as they make important decisions. But that concept falls apart if the LAO provides bad analysis, and especially if it abandons its neutrality [...]
Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani wrote a letter to the Legislative Analyst’s Office last week, and in it she has some tough questions and harsh criticisms for the Office. The LAO, which lost a lot of its credibility with its uninformed attack on the project earlier this month, hasn’t responded yet. But they’ll have to, since Galgiani’s [...]
Two quick things first before getting to the headline: Californians For High Speed Rail Executive Director Daniel Krause has an op-ed in today’s Sacramento Bee pushing back against the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s flawed report attacking HSR. Go read it! Second, the Sac Bee had an excellent editorial defending the project over the weekend, including a [...]
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