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When the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that San Diego acted illegally when its mayor championed a pension reform ballot measure in 2012, nobody was more vindicated than Ann Smith. In 2012, she sent the city letter after letter asking it to sit down and talk about the pension reform ballot measure that was coming together. We had been bargaining over pension reform for years. Unions helped kill the special election the mayor wanted last year to approve SoccerCity and his plan for a Convention Center expansion. The airport’s involvement in the suit caused such an uproar, Assemblywoman Gonzalez scrapped a compromise bill she had settled on instead of a plan to force the airport to merge with the port. At issue are a handful of state laws passed by ballot initiative that restrict the ways in which governments can pass taxes for public purposes. Fees are now limited to direct charges to use something – like a park entry fee – or a regulatory charge – like forcing a developer to pay for a permit. The Airport Authority didn’t take issue with the last time the Port used a rental car fee to build a parking garage. Why would the airport be OK with the old fee and parking garage downtown but now furious about the same fee for one in South Bay? But her statement didn’t acknowledge something in the Airport Authority’s filing: The agency also made it clear it directly objected to the fee itself.

'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz weighs in on the difficulties that faced Trump's first press secretary Sean Spicer and how they continue to plague Sarah Sanders. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…