California's state and local public employee pension funds suffered $27.3 billion in investment losses during 2008, the Census Bureau says, and that was more than two-thirds of all such losses in the nation.
"I've already indicated that that's not a provision I am likely to support," state Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown told a gathering of law enforcement officials in Sacramento yesterday. "I have been on the side of law enforcement for a long time and you can be sure that we will be together on this November ballot."
GOP candidate Meg Whitman spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said Whitman is "absolutely against legalizing marijuana for any reason,"
"She believes we have enough challenges in our society without heading down the path of drug legalization," she said.
Steve Poizner communications director Jarrod Agen took a dig at the could-be rival sharing his candidate's position, saying "like electing Jerry Brown, the idea of legalizing drug is one more bad idea from a bygone era."
"Steve Poizner feels we need an across-the-board tax cut to reignite our state's economy, not an attempt to smoke our way out of the budget deficit," he said.
Of course, not all candidates running for the office are against approving the drug for recreational use in the state.
Prinz Frederic von Anhalt, the eccentric husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, has made legalizing marijuana a central component of his bid for the office.
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