It's not my job to determine what the re-use will be, ... My job is to determine whether this is the right investment for California.
Doesn't make any sense at all for a state that doesn't have money to spare or to waste.
I think this is the first of many cost overruns on this project, ... I think this is only the beginning, and that's why they've scaled back to 768 cells.
If we were looking for a new location for a death row, we would not put it on the one of the most expensive places on the bay near San Francisco.
We want to ask the departments of corrections and finance to explain their rationale in continuing to push for a project that continues to break the bank and doesn't make any fiscal sense.
It was very much a long shot.
The facts in this case are clear, ... This expansion of death row is a short-term solution; we'll be back to where we started in just a few years.
I am dismayed the governor decided to veto a voter-oriented, good government piece of legislation, ... However, I understand this bill would have adversely affected his govern-by-initiative approach by forcing paid signature gatherers to reveal their true identity to voters.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
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