Posted on 01/14/2011 8:23:02 AM PST by SmithL
Just one day after the Sacramento Bee quoted Republican Sen. Tom Berryhill saying that the budget shortfall is "really not our problem," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, moved to strip the Central Valley lawmaker of his committee chairmanship.
In a letter to the Senate Rules Committee, Steinberg said he will ask the committee to replace Berryhill as chair of the Senate agricultural committee . . .
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"This is really not our problem," ..."The Democrats own this, and we think that they should be giving us what the solutions are."The Democrats can now pass a budget without ANY Republican votes.
This is the needed drumbeat. The Democrats OWN the mess in California. They own it. They caused it. They are worsening it.
This has to be the drumbeat. If you want to have any chance to avoid a California insolvency, you better let Republicans lower taxes and restore a more business friendly tax and regulatory climate.
THE DEMOCRATS OWN THE CALIFORNIA MESS. He is dead right.
To piss off a conservative lie to him
To piss off a liberal, tell the truth
a petty act at best, a slap in the face of legal taxpayers.
par for the course for Steinberg.
How does a Repubican get a committee chairmanship? The Dems control the state legislature..
How does a Repubican get a committee chairmanship? The Dems control the state legislature..
Ain’t THAT the truth !
Berryhill's the only listed member on the Agriculture Standing Committee
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