So the governor quickly came to the rescue of his personally created predicament by proclaiming a public safety emergency and invoking extraordinary powers to make budget cuts sufficient to cover local governments' immediate needs..... [T]here is no way of assessing whether his cuts make sense or will result in even greater future costs..... Let's have an honest public conversation about the realities of our collective needs. Ignoring social ills does not make them go away. They only return at greater expense to us all. -- Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-SF)