Lying, Stealing, Earn California Lawmakers Prestigious Award (Clan Kennedy Defines Deviancy Down)

ATR ^ | 5/25/10 | Patrick Gleason

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Yesterday the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation bestowed four California state legislators – Senator Dave Cogdill, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Assemblyman Mike Villines, and former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass – with the JFK Profile in Courage Award.

It turns out it’s “courageous” for politicians, despite a recession and rising unemployment, to impose the largest state-level tax increase in history. At least, that is what the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation would have you believe, as the instrumental role played by the aforementioned four in passing last year’s tax-hike laden budget was the cause for their award.

It also must now be courageous to go against a central campaign committment to constituents, which Villines and Cogdill did in voting for a budget that raised taxes by $11 billion and did nothing to address the state's structural deficit.

For their part in making California the nation’s leader in raising taxes last year, Schwarzenegger lauded Cogdill, Villines, Steinberg, and Bass as “real action heroes...”

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The paradox is that the only Kennedy who made it to the White House, JFK, wanted to lower taxes in office, and give tax breaks to companies opening domestic factories.

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Award winning Cal. legislators