“It is time to close the loophole, so that candidates and elected officials cannot use money intended for promoting or opposing ballot measures to instead promote themselves and their campaigns,” state Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) told a Senate committee last month.

The California Senate Government Organization Committee approved SB 465, a bill authored by State Sen. Pat. Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, that would “ensure local governments continue to receive funding for offsite emergency response planning, training and exercises related to the shuttered San Onofre...

If they are serious about restoring the public’s trust, Webb, Secretary of State Alex Padilla, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should embrace these 2 reforms as part of a broader effort to clean up the DMV mess.

As noted by Sen. Pat Bates, R-Laguna Hills, “The governor’s proposal to hold money for road repairs captive unless local governments meet his demands is a bait-and-switch on Californians who thought the gas and car taxes would help them and their communities. With the defeat of last November’s gas...

The “bad actors” are overwhelming the good ones.