Is California Still A Golden State?

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy are joined by John Chiang, former California State Treasurer, and David Crane, former advisor to Gov. Schwarzenegger, to assess California's governance and government services amid rising housing costs and tax rates, and the future of the so-called "golden state."

Featuring:
Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

John Chiang - California State Treasurer (ret.); former California State Controller; Fall 2020 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

David Crane - President, Govern for California; Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot-button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.4	Good afternoon. I'm Bob Shrum, the Warsaw Professor of Politics at the University of Southern
0:34.7	California, and the director of the Center for the Political
0:38.2	Future at USC Dornside. I'm here with Mike Murphy, my co-director for this edition of Bullie
0:44.7	Pulpit. And the question we're asking is, is California still a golden state? We have two
0:50.6	terrific guests. John Chang served as California's 33rd state treasurer from 2015 to 2019.
0:59.3	Prior to being treasurer, he served a state controller from 2007 through 2014.
1:05.4	And I'm proud to say that he was a fall 2020 fellow at the Center for the Political Future.
1:11.2	David Crane is the president of Governed for California,
1:14.6	a lecturer in public policy at Stanford University.
1:18.4	He was a special advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2004 to 2010.
1:24.6	He's written extensively and has often been cited on the subjects of government accountability,
1:31.6	pension funding, government finance and investment policies, political reform, and more generally,
1:38.1	the quality of governance in the state of California. So I'm going to throw out the first question,
1:43.3	and it's going to be the question I alluded to in this introduction.
1:47.2	Let me go back to the title of this conversation. Is California still a golden state? And either of you can go first.
1:55.4	John gets to go first. Oh, David, I'll let you go first. You're the guess here.
1:59.1	Well, so the answer is undoubtedly yes.
2:02.7	And the reason that California has become less well governed than it used to be, part of it is this dramatic growth and probably the most complex, you know, population in the country, if not the world, but also for about five decades,
2:21.9	the legislature, which is, you know, Article 4 of the California Constitution and a,
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