The Buzz: CTA silent on redistricting measure

October 7, 2008

The powerful California Teachers Association released its stances on several ballot propositions Monday (Yes on 3, No on 4,6,8 and 9), but took no position on 11, the Gov. Schwarzenegger-backed redistricting measure. That's despite the fact the teachers' union spent $750,000 opposing the guv's similar 2005 measure, which voters crushed. Is it a sign of fading allegiance to incumbent Democrats, who oppose the measure?

"Countrywide's lending practices turned the American dream into a nightmare for tens of thousands of families by putting them into loans they couldn't understand and ultimately couldn't afford."

CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL JERRY BROWN

announcing a multistate settlement with the troubled mortgage lender

T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire Texas oil and gas tycoon behind Proposition 10, has doubled down on the alternative energy bond, putting another $4 million into the measure through his company, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The company was already the largest financier of the ballot measure, which would provide $5 billion mostly in rebates to help promote natural gas vehicles, the sort that could use the gas that Pickens' company supplies.