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		<title>For Over Five Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over five years, the size of legislatures and representative democracy has been of interest. My fascination grew from a California Connected blog post published June 24, 2005: &#8220;Interactive: Two’s Company, 423,395 Is A Crowd.&#8221; I blogged about the idea in mid-October 2005, wrote a paper on it in May 2006 for a public policy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/08/06/for-over-five-years/</link>
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		<title>Losing Elections, Gaining Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The May Revise is an utter disaster for California’s future. This is no surprise. We lost the advantage in the fight for California’s future in 2006 when the Governor was re-elected and compounded in 2008 when state Democrats were unable to obtain a legislative two-thirds super-majority in 2008 (though this was never expected). Democrats have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/05/16/losing-elections-gaining-ground/</link>
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		<title>Imagine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Governor released his final May Revise yesterday and it is absolutely, utterly ridiculous. After 7 years of failed gubernatorial leadership, the challenges we’ve face have compounded, the problems we’ve identified have gotten worse, and instead of moving forward into a new century, our state stood still. Imagine if for the past 7 years we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/05/15/imagine/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;But it can certainly influence the thinking of those who can.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a 5-4 majority of the United States Supreme Court overruled Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (decided 6-3 in 1990) and thus eliminated the &#8220;basis for allowing the Government to limit corporate independent expenditures.&#8221; Moreover, the 5-4 majority justifies their overruling of Austin by claiming that &#8220;the First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/02/07/but-it-can-certainly-influence-the-thinking-of-those-who-ca/</link>
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		<title>President&#8217;s Question Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s question time before the House Republicans days ago displayed the high energy, keen intellectual, strike with truth approach that garnered the President his seat in the Oval Office. After listening to his speech, watching him take questions, answer them with unwavering logic and commanding presence, I am fired up and ready to go. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/01/30/presidents-question-time/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;But by the choice of those before us&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A half-century ago, the leaders of California made a commitment to the future. That commitment was based on the belief in a free public higher education; that commitment was named the Master Plan for Higher Education. The Master Plan created the three-tiered system for public higher education. It formed the California Community Colleges system, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2010/01/24/but-by-the-choice-of-those-before-us/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! 2009 was a life changing year. I started the year working in our state Capitol and now end the year working in our nation&#8217;s Capitol. Drove up from Bellflower to Merced, and from there to Yosemite National Park with Mayra in my new Saturn. I traveled to Santa Barbara with a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-4/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas! I am home home with my family. It&#8217;s great to be here with them! This is my first time in Los Angeles since August. Around 4 months being away from the place I grew up is a long time, nearly too long. I have been eating pozole, tamales and hot chocolate. I saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2009/12/26/merry-christmas-3/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I am traveling to Baltimore to spend Thanksgiving with fellow UC Merced Bobcats Efferman and JoJo! Woo hoo! I will miss the family fest this year; my first Thanksgiving out of California.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2009/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-3/</link>
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		<title>F*** the Staus Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished talking to my dad and my parents are on the brink of losing everything they have worked for their entire lives because the system is designed to force failure before you can be helped. I am listening to White Rabbits&#8217; &#8220;Percussion Gun&#8221; on my iPhone. Just got a Google Alert for &#8220;university [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshfranco.com/2009/09/10/f-the-staus-quo/</link>
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