abc 7's capital correspondent nanette miranda reports. >> from republicans -- >> and we are trying to do our best -- >> to democrats. >> that government should never be done in the dark. >> state lawmakers show bipartisan outrage over the excessive pay the stid of bell gave its leaders, including former city manager robert rizzo who made nearly 800,000 a year. sacramento is pushing a package of six bills preventing other cities from offering similar compensation. >> bell officials violated that trust, abused their privilege and committed an unforgivable offense. >> the crackdown on excessive pay includes requiring charter citiless like bell to be penalized for paying more than allowed for traditional cities. anything above would be slashed with a 50% personal income tax banning automatic raises and limiting severance pay to no more than one year's salary. but some wonder why lawmakers can't come together the same way on a state budget which is now almost two months late. california is on the brink of issuing iou's again. a new round of furloughs begins and public schools are starting

. >> nanette miranda in sacramento. a new website reveals dozens of parolees come off tracking anklets any given month with parole agents scrabbleabling to find them. >> grand new plans for market street. can an arts district help ♪ >>> welcome back, everyone. a troubling problem for california prison officials. parolees the state cannot track. that's because they're cutting off the gps devices designed to let prison officials keep tabs on them. our capital correspondent nanette miranda is in sacramento with the story. >> the california department of corrections new website already lists the names and face of 45 parolees who have cut their gps anklets off just in the last two and a half weeks since the listing started. anyone who signed up to get facebook.com, twitter alerts were notified 45 times in that short span. >> we've never disputed the fact they can be cut off. that's part of the benefit of having the gps, if somebody does cut them off we know exactly the location where they're atta point. >> the question is

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in napa, nanette miranda, abc 7 news. >> meg whitman has crossed the $100 million mark. the billionaire and former e-bay ceo has rin a $13 million check to her campaign for governor bringing the total contribution from her personal fortune to $104 million. compare that to her democratic opponent, attorney general jerry brown who spent less than $800,000 so far. but keep in mind brown did not have to spend much money during the primary campaign because unlike whitman he had no serious challengers. brown has $23 million in the bank. he is holding on to it until it gets closer to election time. well, first it was plastic bags. now san francisco city leaders are considering banning plastic water bottles. the idea to kick the bottle is still in the early stages. but as abc 7's lillian kim reports, it appears to be gaining traction at city hall. >> whether it's a music concert at golden gate park or a street festival at north beach, changes could be coming. if environmental leaders in san francisco get their way, you will no longer be able to buy a bottle of water at a public

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abc 7's nanette miranda takes a look at the proposed legislation and the opposition. >> while california wineries enjoy the summer crowds, many owners are worried about the comprehensive alcohol regulatory effectiveness act, a bill in congress which assures that states retain control of alcohol laws. california's smaller wineries and microbreweries think the proposal opens the door to prohibiting shipments of wine or beer to out of state consumers and forces them to use wholesalers if they want their products sold beyond state borders. a wholesaler though might not want to represent a business that doesn't make him a lot of money. >> you have these small mom and pop producers, artisan wineries like ourselves making fine wines in small batches. and we would be cut out of that. >> being cut out could mean fewer choices and higher prices for consumers. and for california's small alcohol producers, they'd lose a big chunk of their business. shipping is key to many of california's smaller wineries. according to the marketing and research firm wines and vine expressway, california accounted fo