California legislators head to Maui for retreat funded by special interests

The LA Times headline says it all. But you can read it at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/la-me-legislature-maui-20111109,0,4657777.story

As our earlier post noted, President Yudof will be submitting his budget for 2012-13 to the Regents next week. In an article in the Daily Bruin, UC VP Patrick Lenz notes that the last time the legislature enacted the UC budget as requested was in 2000-01 (peak of the dot-com boom and the revenue therefrom). See

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/11/uc_president_mark_yudof_proposes_budget_plan_to_increase_university_funding_from_the_state_although_