PolitiCal Roundup

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Bon Jovi concert tickets. A round of golf at Torrey Pines. These were among the gifts accepted by California legislators, The Times reports. Some states limit such gifts to a cup of coffee, but not ours. Read it here.

Gov. Jerry Brown signals he will press forward with this generation’s great California water project: A multi-billion-dollar plan that combines habitat repair for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with a big tunnel to send water south. Read it here.

Even scholars at the conservative American Enterprise Institute acknowledge that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is up to more than union-busting. His agenda is power, according to some onlookers -- the power to decide who gets Medicaid, for example. Read it here.

And more news from the front lines of the budget wars: Firefighters in San Jose agree to slash their own pay and benefits to save jobs. Read it here.