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		<title>Recession and Budget Cuts Double Whammy on Golden State&#8217;s Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Women’s Foundation of California and the California Budget Project released a joint paper, Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California’s Women and Their Families. Major takeaways from the report include: Single mothers were hardest hit by the recession and recent budget cuts contributed to sharp increases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your District&#8217;s Party Registration</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/02/your-districts-party-registration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoffrey Neill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Finance/ Operations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No &#8220;party time&#8221; puns, I promise. The law requires the Secretary of State to release registration numbers as of 154 days before statewide elections. She released them today. You can read in all the other news reports about how many Republicans there are, how many decline-to-state voters, yaddah, yaddah. But what you won&#8217;t hear from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul McIntosh Profile</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/paul-mcintosh-profile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Treadwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSAC News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Capitol Morning Report  www.capitolmr.com Paul McIntosh By Pamela Martineau, Capitol Morning Report Paul McIntosh, executive director of the California State Association of Counties, likens his love of counties to Tommy Lasorda&#8217;s love for the Dodgers. &#8220;If you cut me,&#8221; McIntosh riffs on the famous Lasorda quote, &#8220;I bleed counties.&#8221; McIntosh may come to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate Maps Supremely Validated</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/state-senate-maps-supremely-validated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoffrey Neill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Finance/ Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2/3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supreme court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court confirmed that this year’s elections will make use of the maps drawn by the citizens redistricting commission. Today&#8217;s decision is here. A group called Fairness and Accountability in Redistricting (or FAIR, which is good thinking on someone’s part), requested that the Court — just for the 2012 election — either retain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSAC Revamps Corporate Associates Program &#8211; Hires Director of Corporate Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/csac-revamps-corporate-associates-program-hires-director-of-corporate-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/csac-revamps-corporate-associates-program-hires-director-of-corporate-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul McIntosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSAC News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, CSAC began the process of revamping all of our corporate and sponsorship programs in an effort to increase: private sector participation in CSAC the number of national firms that join and sponsor events the number and quality of interactions we offer corporate and county people to interact with each other revenue generated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December&#8217;s Revenue Slumber</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/decembers-revenue-slumber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/decembers-revenue-slumber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoffrey Neill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the state’s General Fund, four months are head and shoulders more important than the rest. From highest to lowest: April, June, January, and December. Let’s hope April, June, and January bring in the cash, because December didn’t do so hot. State Controller John Chiang announced today that cash receipts in December were below all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Providing Counties with a Glimpse of Their Membership Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/providing-counties-with-a-glimpse-of-their-membership-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2012/01/providing-counties-with-a-glimpse-of-their-membership-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Liebler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSAC News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, CSAC is distributing a new, annual publication to county leaders titled the “2010 &#38; 2011 Member Benefits &#38; Participation Review.” This piece was developed by CSAC to provide our members with insight into what programs and services their specific county is taking advantage of and how they are benefiting the county and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSAC Listed as One of the Top Ten Advocates in Sacramento</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/12/csac-top-ten-advocates-in-sacramento/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/12/csac-top-ten-advocates-in-sacramento/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul McIntosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSAC News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On December 25th, the Sacramento Bee published an article of the impacts advocacy has had on legislation on Sacramento during 2011 (“Lobby Power Pivotal on Bills”).  While the article mostly describes the efforts of business interests killing bills that threatened their business environment, or “job killers”, it contains several tables that ranks the efforts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Brown Makes Trigger Cut Announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/12/governor-brown-makes-trigger-cut-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/12/governor-brown-makes-trigger-cut-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul McIntosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[County Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, Governor Jerry Brown presented his Department of Finance’s revenue forecast for 2011-12 pursuant to Chapter 41, Statutes of 2011 – the so-called “trigger cuts” that were approved as a component of the 2011-12 state budget package.  Department of Finance Director Ana Matosantos outlined both the revenue forecast and the resultant reductions that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Meeting: Be the Change</title>
		<link>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/11/annual-meeting-be-the-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.csac.counties.org/blogs/index.php/2011/11/annual-meeting-be-the-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Liebler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annual Meeting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Become the change you want to see – that was a common theme among the two speakers who highlighted this morning’s General Session. CSAC 1st Vice President and Yolo County Supervisor Mike McGowan set the stage when he told the packed house that in 2012, “there is an opportunity for us to make change and [...]]]></description>
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