Gov. Jerry Brown was specific about his goals when he called two special legislative sessions.

Lawmakers, he said, should bring him new plans for financing public healthcare and road repairs, problems that have festered for years.

But he could get much more than he bargained for as lawmakers from both parties seize an opportunity to push a raft of tangential and even unrelated measures. Some would not provide a single dollar toward the governor’s objectives of filling potholes and boosting money for healthcare programs. MORE