When has a law or proposition stopped runaway spending by the legislature before in California?
Graphic: San Francisco Chronicle headline from July 22, 2003: Demos caught in budget gaffe: Open mike picks up faction's talk of profiting from a crisis.-PJAnnouncer: "Remember when the Democrats were secretly meeting to delay the budget?"
Tape of Jackie Goldberg (D-Los Angeles): "It seems to me if there's going to be a crisis, the crisis should be this year. What you do is you show people that you can't get to this without a 55 percent vote."
Announcer: "The Democrats planned to precipitate a crisis by hurting Californians."
Tape of Jackie Goldberg: "I think there's going to be a crisis, and the question is whether it should be this year or next year in terms of members of our house who want to get re-elected or in terms of members of our house who want to move to the Senate. Personally, I think the crisis is better off this year."
Announcer: "Don't let the Democrats get away with their plan to abuse their powers and hurt Californians. Vote NO on proposition 56."
Tape of Jackie Goldberg: "Oh, shit! Oh, shit!"
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