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April 24, 2012—CFT members transformed themselves into lobbyists for a day, fanning out around the Capitol to speak with legislators about school funding and education legislation, after a morning briefing led by CFT legislative staff. Members and leaders came from southern California, the central valley, and the Bay Area to ask their elected officials to do the right thing for public education. Fred Glass photo
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2012 CFT convention: Moving forward |
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Delegates marched a mile for fairness during the first
day of the 2012 CFT convention in San Jose. See video
Fred Glass photo
April 16, 2012—Standing out like a bright thread through the tapestry of the 70th annual CFT convention, held April 13-15 in San Jose, was discussion of the late lamented Millionaires Tax and its transition to a progressive tax ballot measure with the united support of CFT and its community coalition partners, Governor Jerry Brown, and the largest unions in California.
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Governor pulls old petition from streets |
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April 5, 2012—The coalition behind the Millionaires Tax and the Governor merged our two initiatives into one progressive tax initiative last month. When that occurred, because of financial and logistical burdens, the Millionaires Tax coalition agreed to pull our signature gatherers from the street and put our effort into the new merged initiative. The Governor wasn't certain of the tight time-lines and the potential high benchmark of 1,250,000 signatures within 8 weeks, so he maintained his signature effort on his old initiative as a backup.
Over the last two weeks, the new merged coalition has gained enough financial and political support and a large enough number of signatures have been collected that the Governor has decided to pull his original petition from the streets.
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CFT, Restoring California coalition join with governor in unified ballot measure |
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March 15, 2012—The California Federation of Teachers and its partners in the Restoring California coalition have reached agreement with Governor Brown to come together behind a new unified progressive tax initiative with the governor, the "Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012."
“Our coalition welcomes the opportunity to join Governor Brown, Senate Pro-tem Steinberg, Speaker Pérez and their allies in crafting this win-win measure,” said Joshua Pechthalt, President of the California Federation of Teachers and a co-chair of the Millionaire Tax Campaign.
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