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PolitiCal roundup: Jerry Brown’s road show, redevelopment humble-ment

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The budget story enters Chapter 2: A bipartisan deal is now officially dead, so Gov. Jerry Brown is set to travel the state to convince voters to approve tax extensions without Republican support.

Union leaders get legislators to pass a measure they have sought for years. It would ease the path to union membership for farmworkers. The bill goes to the governor.

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Redevelopment agency executives are humbled, contrite. They are talking all about penance and redemption at a statewide conference this week in San Jose as they fight to keep the property taxes they divert from state coffers -- money they have often misspent. It may be too late: Brown’s budget ax twitches over them.

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