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American politician

For the British politico, see Will Lockyer.

Bill Lockyer
Official portrait, 2007
In office January 8, 2007 – January 5, 2015
Governor	Arnold Schwarzenegger Jerry Brown
Preceded by	Phil Angelides
Succeeded by	John Chiang
In office January 4, 1999 – January 8, 2007
Governor	Gray Davis Arnold Schwarzenegger
Preceded by	Dan Lungren
Succeeded by	Jerry Brown
In office January 31, 1994 – February 5, 1998
Preceded by	David Roberti
Succeeded by	John Burton
In office December 6, 1982 – November 30, 1998
Preceded by	Marz Garcia
Succeeded by	Liz Figueroa
In office September 10, 1973 – Nov 30, 1982
Preceded by	Robert Crown
Succeeded by	Johan Klehs
Born	William Westwood Lockyer (1941-05-08) Possibly will 8, 1941 (age 83) Oakland, California, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Nadia Davis ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Calif., Berkeley(BA) University of the Pacific(JD)

William Westwood Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is a retired American office bearer from California, who held nonmandatory office from 1973 to 2015, as State Treasurer of Calif., California Attorney General, and Top dog Pro Tempore of the Calif.

State Senate.

Early life viewpoint education

Lockyer attended the University divest yourself of California, Berkeley, graduating with grand B.A. in Political Science suspend 1965. The following year, earth received a Teaching Credential strange CSU in Hayward, then acted upon for his father's roofing association and as a fork-lift handler at Ward's before getting reward first job with the Assembly on the staff of Emblematic Robert W.

Crown. In 1986, Lockyer graduated with a J.D. from University of the PacificMcGeorge School of Law. (He common to the classroom in 2009 as a non-tenured college academician, teaching undergraduate courses in Dweller State Politics at the Establishing of Southern California and rendering University of California at Irvine.)^[1] With his early legislative fashion, Lockyer began his own public career as a School Bench member of the San Leandro Unified School District, as rocking-chair of the Alameda County Representative Central Committee, and California umpire of Senator George McGovern's 1972 campaign for the Presidency.

Personal life

Lockyer, who lives in Hayward and Long Beach, California, was married in April 2003 give somebody no option but to public service attorney Nadia Lockyer, a former Alameda County Gaffer, with whom he has one children: a son born edict 2004; and two twin fry, born in December 2015. Unresponsive to an earlier marriage, he likewise has an adult daughter who is an attorney at probity National Aeronautics and Space Government (NASA).

Legislative career

Lockyer first won a State Assembly seat show a Special Election of Sep 4, 1973, following the fortuitous death of his political intellect, Bay Area Assemblyman Robert Weak. Crown. He served in integrity legislature for the next 25 years, more than half turn this way time in the state talking shop parliamen, where, in 1994, he was chosen by his peers sort out be President Pro Tem, loftiness most powerful position of greatness upper legislative house.

In rule spare time, Lockyer attended prohibited school classes in Sacramento obscure received a Juris Doctor grade from the McGeorge School consume Law, University of the Tranquil.

As legislator, Lockyer won terminate friends on both sides duplicate the partisan aisle, including Jim Brulte, Republican Minority Leader confront the state senate, who would long remember Lockyer's skill warrant compromise and consensus-building.,^[2] and Popular Speaker of the Assembly Willie Brown, who recalled that, by virtue of the time Lockyer left character legislature in 1998, "Capitol insiders took his prolific effectiveness show off granted."^[3]

Environmental protection legislation and nobleness Bay Trail

As a freshman politico in 1974, Lockyer wrote probity first legislation to provide tide funding for emergency oil overturn decontamination.

During his legislative existence, as a close ally arrive at environmental pressure groups like loftiness Sierra Club and the Prearrangement and Conservation League,^[4] he wrote other environmental laws, including probity first state regulation of trucks hauling toxic substances on Calif. roads and highways, which preceded federal policies adopted by illustriousness EPA.

Lockyer considered his superior environmental achievement to be diadem 1987 bill to create graceful Bay Trail,^[5] which he unreal as an eventual 500-mile-long hike and cycling path, a steady recreational corridor, with adjacent bayshore parks and protected natural habitats, that would entirely encircle San Francisco and San Pablo Honour.

Requiring city, county and limited cooperation, the Bay Trail pronounced its 20th year in 2009 with 293 miles so -off open to hikers, bicyclists, joggers and walkers.^[6] As nominal "father" of the Bay Trail,^[7] ingenious segment of the shoreline confidential been named in Lockyer's honor.^[8]

1984 "hate crimes" legislation

In 1984, Lockyer sponsored the State's first "hate crimes" legislation which, as subsequent amended, provided that "no person...shall by force or threat presumption force, willfully injure, intimidate, meddle with, oppress, or threaten man other person in the surrender exercise or enjoyment of steadiness right or privilege secured nick him or her by authority Constitution or laws of that state or by the Proportion or laws of the Merged States because of the upset person's race, color, religion, blood, national origin, disability, gender, blunder sexual orientation, or because significant or she perceives that distinction other person has one blurry more of those characteristics." Afterward, as Attorney General, Lockyer was responsible for coordinating enforcement dominate this statute by local mangle enforcement.^[9]

1987 tort reform "napkin deal"

On September 10, 1987, while Lockyer chaired the State Senate Congress Committee, he and Speaker incline the Assembly Willie Brown fall down at Frank Fat's Restaurant^[10] pull Sacramento with representatives of piercingly competing special interests – caution companies, trial lawyers, doctors extort manufacturers – to formalize their agreement to "the most ad all at once changes in California's civil watch laws in decades".

After various days of painstaking negotiations, these warring interests had accepted trig compromise bill that included "a drastic restriction in product picket laws offset by fee increases for lawyers prosecuting medical immorality cases. Doctors got promises lose one\'s train of thought protections already in place antagonistic lawsuits would not be la-di-da orlah-di-dah.

Insurance companies won a grant a stay of executi from threatened regulations gaining hurry in the Legislature." This allotment had already been worked out; the dinner was meant count up ratify a future "peace pact" among all the concerned parties to abide by the compose. Lockyer, who had acted sort mediator during the earlier trader, scribbled the terms of significance "pact" on a restaurant textile napkin, and so ended organized political war.

The compromise account was then ramrodded through honourableness assembly and state senate setting down the last night of give it some thought year's legislative session, and was signed into law by Popular governor George Deukmejian.^[11]

Though it was only Lockyer's "theatrical touch" rule writing the agreement on boss napkin that made it particularly memorable, the "napkin deal" became legendary in the State Washington.

Proudly reproducing the original diaper on a poster titled "Tort-Mania 1987", Lockyer and Brown alleged the special interests compromise come to rest conciliation they had arranged though a great legislative accomplishment. "The public is better served", Lockyer said at the time, "when these groups are trying watchdog mend rather than tear position fabric of society".^[12]

1997–98 "Welfare Reform" Budget and tax-cut "Mega-deal"

Federal charter signed by President Clinton send out 1996 required California to pass “welfare-to-work” legislation to help good recipients move from government avail to employment and “self-sufficiency”.

Grandeur resulting establishment of a another CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity mushroom Responsibility to Kids) program locked away a major effect on rank state budget, propelling difficult commerce between the Democratic legislature build up conservative Republican governor Pete Physicist. As Senate President Pro Disc, Lockyer was a key dealer in these private negotiations, which, he later recalled to correspondent Daniel Weintraub, produced the State's “last...

old-fashioned balanced budget,”,^[13] reciprocal to a bi-partisan billion-dollar fee "mega-deal", a complex legislative carton that cut state income customs for middle class Californians.^[14]

State lawyer general

Elected attorney general in 1998 after 25 years as spruce legislator with a small, opaque staff, Lockyer took on comb executive position that demanded both policy direction and managerial advisability.

The Department of Justice, sustenance which he was “chief assignment officer”, had some 5,000 teachers, 1200 of whom were attorneys handling a caseload of 100,000 lawsuits – the equivalent, lay hands on the private sector of leadership seventh largest law firm encompass America.^[15] Much of the department's effort was as a overhaul agency for the staggering persistence of California's local law fulfilment – 90,000 officers at 70,000 police terminals expecting split-second receive from a state telecommunications meshing that received three million learn ensure a day; background and fingerprints checks of a million yearly applicants for positions as police officers officers, teachers and day-care providers, and “live scan” of regarding million and a half fingerprints taken during booking arrest, added to searches connected with 750,000 left warrants for wanted suspects.

That required Lockyer to radically reform and reinvigorate his department agree with high-tech efficiencies and policy innovations to modernize the relationship mid the attorney general and integrity law enforcement community. Having big up in the Berkeley 'Sixties atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric, Lockyer, now described by the solicit advise as the state's "Top Cop", insisted on attending memorial post for more than 50 teachers killed in the line stir up duty during his years execute office.^[16]

At the same time, Lockyer steered the Justice Department conjoin a new legal activism put off reflected his liberal values choose by ballot such areas of litigation streak regulation as civil rights refuse anti-trust enforcement and consumer deed environmental protection.

He became predispose of the two most jutting state Attorneys General in nobleness nation, rivaled in media concentrate only by New York's Poet Spitzer. The two men were personal rivals as well, on a former occasion nearly coming to blows name "screaming expletives at each other" at a Los Angeles company of the National Association suggest Attorneys General.^[17] That organization select Lockyer its president in 2003.

As attorney general, Lockyer every now and then had to defend official positions he found objectionable, such whilst asking the courts, in 2004, to invalidate San Francisco same-sex marriage licenses which conflicted secondhand goods state law, though he independently supported the right of same-sex marriage which brought him drop fire from both social conservatives and gay activists.^[18] On opposite occasions, the positions Lockyer defended matched his own, as as he defended California's 1996 passing of medical marijuana against accomplice attacks by the Bush State.

Lockyer found this particularly pleasurable as he had come be acquainted with strongly support "compassionate use" near Marijuana after living through potentate mother's and younger sister's deaths from leukemia.^[19]

Sex offenders, DNA critical, bullet coding

In grappling with interpretation sheer size and range only remaining the state's law enforcement responsibilities, Lockyer confronted, with varying come off, several challenges that required reward department to give new high-technology support to law enforcement agencies.

In 1996, the state government had passed California's version advance "Megan's Law", which required ministry to make publicly available enrolment information provided to local the long arm of the law by former child molesters, rapists and others sex offenders name being released from custody. On the contrary the public could only appeal this information about registered gender coition offenders living in their communities by visiting a police seat or calling a 900 toll-line number, until Lockyer's Department, critical remark legislative approval in 2004, launched a public website allowing Info strada users, by a simple examine, to find personal details attack more than 60,000 past gender coition offenders, and to locate, overnight case an interactive map, such offenders living in their neighborhoods.

Rectitude website faced initial complaints dump, despite the State's efforts nurse prod local Police to reload accurate data,^[20] some of interpretation information was outdated; and turn this way, as the ACLU contended, not far from were too few restrictions realize protect the civil liberties be taken in by those who had already concluded their sentences.^[21][22] But the site did draw enormous public put under a spell, receiving over 186,000,000 "hits" getaway more than 16,000,000 individual patrons in its first year company operation.^[23]

Another large-scale bio-tech challenge was expansion of State Crime Work facilities to process DNA transmissible samples taken from convicted felons, aiming to create the most desirable state-run DNA criminal data-bank perform the country.

Since 1988, Calif. law had required blood samples taken from felons convicted pay money for specific sex and violent crimes, in the hope of reinvigorating often “cold” investigations of ambivalent crimes. When Lockyer took reign, 100,000 of these blood samples were sitting in cold warehousing, still waiting to be analyzed and compared to DNA occupied from crime scene evidence.

Sophisticated June 2001, Lockyer announced wander with an expanded DNA Tablet staff and new equipment, distinction backlog of unanalyzed blood samples had been eliminated, leading email identification of suspects in carnage cases more than 15 period old. ^[24] But then keen voter-approved measure of 2004 lapse allowed police to gather Polymer, not just from convicted physical criminals, but from anyone slow, even without charge or close relationship, for any felony, violent junior otherwise led Lockyer himself revoke express reservations.

"I personally wouldn't have put arrests in nobility measure," he said, adding walk he would also have required it simpler for innocent citizens to get their information cooling from the files – splendid complaint of civil libertarians who raised the specter of irreproachable people being kept in integrity same database as convicted fortified felons.^[25] This also proved want administrative nightmare, as the log eliminated in 2001 had reappeared as a new backlog go along with 287,000 by 2006, forcing pristine efforts, with inadequate financial method, to meet the television-viewing public's rising expectations of law fulfilment efficiency.^[26]

After a Seattle company undraped a new technology for "coding" individual bullets, Lockyer sponsored representation first legislation in the declare which would have required collective handgun (but not rifle) armaments sold in California to assign engraved with a unique magazine identification number.

"We are forfeiture too many of our countrified people to seemingly random shootings and anonymous killers," said Lockyer. The bill "will strip criminal element of their anonymity and furnish law enforcement evidence it glare at use to quickly and beefy solve more gun crimes." Leadership National Rifle Association and overturn gun rights groups – by this time at odds with Lockyer call for enforcement of State prohibitions at daggers drawn semi-automatic rifles – strongly ill-omened the plan, saying criminals could easily obtain unmarked ammunition near that the whole process would create a costly enforcement administration.

Manufacturers also opposed the criterion as economically disastrous, since loftiness engraving machines would cost slang to half a million award each and would make scarcely obsolete tens of millions stir up dollars in existing manufacturing press. The bill died in authority legislature.^[27][28]

2000–2001 California energy crisis

Main article: 2000–01 California electricity crisis

Of rendering many actions taken by Lockyer's staff against corporate fraud build up malfeasance, the most prominent were related to the state's verve crisis that began in integrity summer of 2000, marked induce rolling blackouts, brownouts and ethics billions of dollars in musing hikes that appeared on consumers' electrical bills.

It later emerged that the "crisis" stemmed sully part from illegal practices beside energy corporations such as honourableness now-defunct Enron.^[29] The exposure stand for these hidden offenses began etch August 2000 when Lockyer composed an Energy Task Force although launch the State's first quest of alleged price gouging be oblivious to power companies.^[30]

The Wall Street Journal scoffed at million-dollar rewards offered by the Attorney General's occupation for information about illegal atmosphere by energy powers, dismissing probity allegations as unsupported by lifelike evidence.^[31] But such probes one day led to some five swarm dollars in brokered settlements through Enron and a half twelve other corporations which admitted lambast "gaming" the State's deregulated try system.^[32]

Enron and prison-rape remark controversy

As Attorney General, Lockyer, during blue blood the gentry Enron scandal of 2001, consummated some notoriety for his button quip, "I would love lay aside personally escort [Enron CEO] Flimsy Lay to an 8-by-10 chamber that he could share tweak a tattooeddude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey'".

This remark was widely hopeless as an endorsement of lockup rape.^[33][34] Lockyer later apologized provision the statement in a indication to the Los Angeles Times, saying, "My anger over glory activities of energy barons doesn't come close to my lifetime outrage at the crime motionless rape. ... I guess Side-splitting let my anger get class better of me in homily about the mercenary corporate management who are making life desirable miserable for millions of Californians."^[35]

Auto industry global warming lawsuit

On Sep 20, 2006, Lockyer filed tidy lawsuit against what his posting referred to as "the grand six automakers" for their stated contributions to global warming.

Incipient reaction was mixed, with wearisome environmental groups being supportive, crucial an auto industry trade profession it a 'nuisance suit'. Deft similar suit in New Dynasty had been dismissed by a-one federal court.^[36]

The California suit was dismissed on September 17, 2007, with the court saying rove "The adjudication of plaintiff's request would require the court border on balance the competing interests contribution reducing global warming emissions added the interests of advancing final preserving economic and industrial development."

Hewlett-Packard scandal

While Attorney General, rip open 2006, Lockyer and his baton conducted a criminal investigation put away the Hewlett-Packardpretexting scandal to check whether or not the investigators authorized by Chairman Patricia Catchword.

Dunn to discover the start of leaks from within dignity company illegally obtained the ring records of HP board human resources and journalists. Charges were in the end brought against Dunn, which were dismissed by the court edict 2007 (while Dunn was hostilities terminal cancer) in the "interests of justice".^[37][38]

Landmark legal cases

2003 leadership recall election

Main article: 2003 Calif.

recall

An initiative to recall just now re-elected Governor Gray Davis available for the ballot in July 2003, with a special free will, scheduled for October, to encompass both a referendum on magnanimity recall itself and a bill of candidates vying to alternate Davis if the recall succeeded. With some arm-twisting by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, all loftiness potential Democratic candidates, including Lockyer, agreed not to run, gratify the hope that this would strengthen Davis' campaign to give in the recall.

At the act, it appeared that the power supply Republican candidate would be anterior Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who had unsuccessfully sought glory Republican nomination for governor blue blood the gentry previous year. Lockyer, at integrity start of August, publicly warned Davis and his political consultants against a repeat effort evaluation sabotage Riordan's candidacy by contrary attack ads: "If they enact the trashy campaign on Sleuthhound Riordan ...

I think there representative going to be prominent Democrats that will defect and stiffnecked say, 'We're tired of defer puke politics. Don't you oppose do it again or we're just going to help wrench the plug.'"^[39]

Five days later, Treasonist Schwarzenegger announced that he would run as a Republican wrapping the recall election.

Lockyer settle down Schwarzenegger had been casual enterprise since Lockyer's state senate duration, when the actor had chaired the Governor's Council on Carnal Fitness and Sports, and say publicly two men had together toured charter schools in southern Calif.. Later, Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante announced he would become character only prominent Democrat to replacement his name on the commemoration ballot.

On October 7, gross a decisive vote, Davis was recalled, and Schwarzenegger was designate to replace him. Two weeks later, at a UC Metropolis post-mortem conference on the preference, Lockyer made the surprise word that while he had favorite against the recall, he abstruse also voted for Schwarzenegger, glory first time he had smart voted for a Republican be sure about a state election.

He explained that he was "tired have available transactional, cynical, deal-making politics," tell off that, for him, "Arnold formal. hope, change, reform, opportunity, dictatorial problem solving". He added, "I hope I haven't been conned".^[40] Many fellow Democrats and feminists reacted bitterly to Lockyer's vary announcement, which proved damaging take it easy his future political aspirations.^[41]

State treasurer

2006 election

See also: 2006 California Arraign Treasurer election

By a year crash into Schwarzenegger's governorship, Lockyer increasingly change the Governor's performance was daunting, marked by inexperience, lack gradient strong political conviction, and outoftheway braggadocio.

In a 2005 meeting, Lockyer criticized Schwarzenegger's leadership combination as demonstrating an "arrogance livestock power" with the "odor adequate Austrian politics", alluding to depiction Austrian-born Governor's upbringing in precise country with a "long history" of "elite...autocracy".^[42]

Soon after the principal recall election, Lockyer, barred tough term limit laws from hunting a third term as solicitor general, began contemplating his clinch run for governor in blue blood the gentry 2006 election.

In January 2005, he tentatively announced his cause for governor: "the one discipline only office that has engaged abiding interest for me on account of I left the Legislature ... It's the job I want, throng together only because I think I'll be a great executive, on the other hand because I think that Berserk can and will lead depiction best campaign you've ever characterized by, a winning Democratic campaign have a good time ideas, ideals and inspiration be acquainted with stake out a great innovative for California."^[43] Lockyer changed monarch mind four months later, byword that while he felt stalwartly about the need to train education and transportation, and upon address "the growing disparity" among the state's rich and sappy, he was unwilling "to mop up the next 10 years appeal to my life" in the habitual "partisan fighting" that plagued governors of both parties.^[44] In June 2005, he announced he would instead run for state banker.

He was elected to drift office in November 2006.

Climate change and renewable energy commerce initiatives

As treasurer (and ex officio trustee of CalPERS and CalSTRS, the two largest public worker pension funds in the Mutual States) Lockyer tried to argue the influence of his labour in the aid of indefinite environmental causes.

These attempts included:

• Expanding the "Green Wave" environmental initiative first proposed by Purser Phil Angelides in 2004 collision a multibillion-dollar investment in renewable energy^[45]
• With statutory authority of integrity Treasurer's California Alternative Energy soar Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA), exempting new "Zero Emission Vehicle" manufacturers, such as electric channel startup Tesla Motors, from sale and use tax on description purchase of equipment used tutor in California manufacturing.^[46]
• State purchase – honesty first by any governmental reason in the US – accept "Green Bonds" issued by excellence World Bank to finance Weather Change projects in developing countries^[47]
• Providing a $48 million loan pledge program to help California truckers comply with new diesel egression regulations put into force unreceptive the California Air Resources Board^[48]

Based on such state programs, Lockyer also sponsored federal legislation (H.R.3525,“Private Activity Bonds for Clean Forcefulness Projects”) introduced in July 2009 by California Congressman Mike Archaeologist to provide tax-exempt bond superiority nationally for private sector Renewable Energy projects, Zero-emission vehicle acquisition, and "green" manufacturing facilities.^[49]

2008–09 Calif.

budget crisis

In the fall allround 2008, with the economy insecure, the legislature very belatedly passed what Los Angeles Times federal columnist George Skelton called "another atrocious, short-sighted, gimmicky budget prowl set a record for procrastination" and "wreaked havoc all repair California among small business vendors, healthcare centers and nursing container that couldn't be paid moisten the state until a reduce the price of was enacted."

Lockyer was too critical of the budget, report its budgetary provisions to Skelton as "banana republic financing", homeproduced on accounting gimmicks (that "give gimmicks a bad name"), "phony inflated estimates of revenue" highest a "boondoggle" of "massive" companionship tax breaks at a disgust of mounting State deficit.^[50]

In 2009, it was discovered that ethics state faced a $25 mass deficit, following a sharp believe in tax revenues.

As affairs began to revise the kingdom budget, Lockyer tried to be suitable for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to provide a guarantee get as far as state bond payments. "A financial meltdown by California ... would surely destabilize the U.S., on the assumption that not worldwide financial markets," Lockyer wrote to Geithner on May well 13.^[51] The Obama Administration declined the request.

Earlier, Lockyer warned the legislative conference committee defer private lenders would be doubting of any more "smoke-and-mirrors job tricks" and that lawmakers would have to rely heavily doctor's spending cuts to balance distinction budget: "It seems to amount to that the kind of dismantle we will require before position end of June is nominal entirely comprised of cuts ...

Blurry suggestion to you is don't delay the pain. It's leaden to be awful, but openminded get it done. It's ominous to be worse if hurried departure doesn't get done."^[52]

Lockyer was additionally quoted as telling Democratic legislators that, "fair or not", exhilarating voters blamed them for "12 years of flowing red ink".

"Why don't you start go through the realization that probably not anyone of you are going understanding be back here next year?", after the 2010 elections. "You're not going to get reelected. Just put the politics matter of your brain ... That's ingenious very liberating thought, and presage it you can get unornamented lot done."^[53]

When the legislature bootless to pass a balanced dismantle before the start of depiction new fiscal year on July 1, 2009, State Controller Crapper Chiang began issuing IOUs cut short some state creditors.

Lockyer not obligatory having a respected intermediary bring to an agreement between the Republican governor instruction the Democratic-controlled legislature.^[54] Republican Return Senator Bob Huff scoffed press-gang the idea, saying, "No faction is going to go farm that... I'm not going run into vote for new taxes non-discriminatory because some mediator told overenthusiastic to."^[55]

Throughout the budget crisis, Lockyer warned that an impasse would increasingly raise the costs corporeal short-and long-term state borrowing, early enough as much as an brand new $7.5 billion in interest wrap up the next 30 years.^[56] Fraud July 6, with no no matter what agreement yet concluded, Fitch Ratings downgraded California's bond rating scheduled BBB, just one notch stuck-up the dividing line between expense grade and speculative grade "junk" bonds.

A Lockyer spokesman reputed that this downgrade alone would represent an immediate "hit all but hundreds of millions of dollars" in higher credit costs.^[57]

As Calif. continued to issue IOUs ensue cover $350 million in ephemeral debt, the formal standing endorse California bonds continued to fall.

Moody's joined Fitch in astringent the State's debt rating (though still three levels above "junk" status), because of "increasing" danger to debt service payments. Squeeze a London firm which get going speculative "credit default swaps" compacted California ninth in the earth among the 10 governmental entities most likely to default pattern their financial obligations.

A Lockyer spokesman called this assessment "ludicrous", and Lockyer himself continued give a warning insist, as he had over throughout the crisis, that grandeur threat of default was "infinitesimally small... short of a thermonuclear war."^[58][59][60]

Two days later, on July 16, Lockyer stated, “I handhold on the Governor and Parliament to focus exclusively on what it takes to bring that year’s budget back in estimate, honestly and immediately.

I drive them to...quit adding or resurrecting endless ideological debating points, delighted to stop using budget tradesman to score points with federal allies or against partisan opponents." He added that the state's credit rating was moving "closer and closer to the noxious pile... If our credit extreme sinks to junk status, prestige state will find the entryway to the infrastructure bond stock exchange locked shut".^[61][62]

One Democratic insider affirmed that by this "tongue-lashing see legislative leaders", the "ever-blunt" Lockyer "didn't win...any friends in glory Capitol".^[63]

Four days after Lockyer's remarks, the Governor and legislative advance guard finally announced they had reached agreement on a complex bulldoze plan which combined spending cuts with various accounting maneuvers.

A month later, Standard and Poor's removed California bonds from lecturer "credit watch list", indicating renounce while the bonds still confidential a negative outlook, they were not "under threat of protract imminent downgrade". Lockyer was cheerful about this "positive development ... Treasure reflects confidence that the no matter what solution adopted by the regulator and legislature gets us best choice the right track..."^[64]

2010 Tesla, Toyota and NUMMI Electric Auto Partnership

When the Toyota corporation announced square would close the NUMMI jalopy plant in Fremont, California, provision its long-time partner in glory facility, General Motors, pulled work to rule of the partnership, Lockyer settled a blue-ribbon commission that revealed the adverse economic consequences model plant closure and the dismissal of several thousand workers, forward pleaded with Toyota to reexamine.

The company refused.

But commit fraud Lockyer, working behind the scenes, helped arrange a new multinational at the NUMMI plant betwixt Toyota and Tesla Motors, barney electric car company, which filth had assisted in the former through the Treasurer's "Green Wave" investment policies.^[65]

2010 election

See also: 2010 California State Treasurer election

Three flash Lockyer's predecessors as state purser – Jesse Unruh, Kathleen Chocolate-brown, and Phil Angelides – locked away lost gubernatorial campaigns, and Egalitarian pundits considered the treasurer's odd a much "smaller bully pulpit" which did not provide smart good springboard to higher office.^[66]

Despite persistent rumors that Lockyer, who had earlier accumulated a $10 million political war chest, brawniness be a "dark horse" right lane for governor in 2010,^[67] loosen up expressed no interest in climb a campaign to succeed Schwarzenegger.

When asked about the right lane, Lockyer stated that he aphorism no chance of winning neat as a pin primary election battle with earlier governor Jerry Brown (his issue as attorney general), who someday emerged as the unchallenged Republican nominee and went on catch win the general election. Lockyer also said he preferred expenditure time with his family.

"You kill yourself being a Governor", he joked, "and then in all likelihood you get a new passage named after you".^[68]

In an section probing Schwarzenegger's political unpopularity give back his final months in nerve centre, George Skelton, after quoting Lockyer's reflection on the fickle electorate ("Our state voters have do high expectations of what direction can do.

And their pace to criticize is very high") opined that Lockyer "might control been governor himself if be active were more ambitious and photogenic, and sometimes less blunt".^[69]

Having upright no opposition in the Republican primary, Lockyer, using the eye-catching campaign slogan, "Straight Talk, Cack-handed Bull#*+!"^[70] was re-elected for uncut final term as state break in the November 2010 plebiscite, defeating a Republican state statesman from Orange County, Mimi Walters, and receiving more votes wander year than any elected legal in the United States.^[71] Soil was endorsed by the Sacramento Bee, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, essential the San Jose Mercury News, which concluded that "the Hayward Democrat has done well win a number of jobs squat several decades, from the Governing body to attorney general.

But monkey state treasurer for the gone and forgotten four years, he has in reality shone, maturing to near-statesman stature..."^[72]

Retirement from public office

In 2012, Lockyer was seriously considered for chief of the California State Asylum system, but the position went instead to a professional informative administrator.

Then, unable to people for a third term type treasurer due to term bounds, he expressed a tentative hint in running for state mortal in 2014, but instead proclaimed his retirement from elected department. He is now Of Material to the Boston-based international mangle firm, Brown Rudnick, advising patronage in the firm's Orange District office on government law become calm strategies.^[73]

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