Re: [RC] Fwd: What's Next California?

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke54.htm

Sanity and California in the same sentence??? The Apocalypse is nigh. David :-) "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 6/1/2011 5:44 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: My friends the Fishkins are running this. This may well be our last, best hope for injecting sanity and reality in California politics... http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/docs/summary/ -- Ernie P. Begin forwarded message: From: New America Foundation <communicati...@newamerica.net> Date: May 31, 2011 1:16:40 PM PDT To: drer...@radicalcentrism.org Subject: What's Next California? Reply-To: communicati...@newamerica.net   What's Next California? A New Way of Approaching the Golden State's Governance Challenges   The New America Foundation has joined a coalition of non-partisan reform organizations, academics and journalists to conduct California's first-ever statewide deliberative poll. This event, called "What's Next California?" and conducted by Stanford University's Center for Deliberative Democracy, will bring a randomly selected sample of the state's registered voters together for representative and thoughtful deliberation on a wide range of governance, finance and constitutional issues.    New America has always emphasized work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy. Nowhere are these challenges greater than in California, which not only faces unprecedented demographic and economic changes, but does so with a governance system that is fundamentally broken, and arguably incapable of implementing the policy reforms that are so clearly needed.   That dual challenge -- California's need for ground-breaking policy solutions *and* the political infrastructure to advance such changes -- is what has drawn New America to the "What's Next California?" deliberative poll. This innovative gathering of citizens from across the state is a vital first step for getting California back on the right path. Three days of thoughtful discussion can't by itself reform California -- but insights that result can be invaluable for the efforts that follow.   "What's Next California?" will take place June 24-26, in Torrance, California. To learn more, please visit NextCA.org, and join us on Facebook and Twitter. About the New America Foundation The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. Forward email This email was sent to drer...@radicalcentrism.org by communicati...@newamerica.net |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. New America Foundation | 1899 L Street, NW | Floor 4 | Washington | DC | 20036 -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org