California smokers may get hit with new tax

Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2012

“To go outside and pick someone like this is pretty remarkable,” said Barry Krisberg, director of research and policy at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley.
“What this signals to me is that (Brown) is interested in really trying to move California into the forefront of corrections nationwide and also to solve a lot of the big problems they’ve been struggling with for a long, long time,” he said.