Posted on 03/30/2011 7:23:21 PM PDT by Nachum
Gov. Jerry Brown of California cited a long list of Republican demands as the reason he dropped his plan for a special election in June to approve tax extensions for the California budget.
Los Angeles
Gov. Jerry Brown has dropped his plan to broker a bipartisan California budget by asking voters, in a special election in June, to extend taxes to close the state’s $26.4 billion gap by $12 billion.
Budget cuts enacted by the Legislature and signed last week covered only $11.2 billion of the deficit.
Mr. Brown, who needed just four Republicans to sign off on the special election idea, cited an extensive list of GOP demands in return as the reason that a standoff could not be bridged.
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Good. The pubbies didn’t cave.
Lay off 25% of ALL workers who are not Teachers, Firefighters or Cops.
Budget gap solved.
The good news with this story is that the beaches are nice at this time of year.
Neither too hot or too cold.
Note to Jerry this works with money also.
...oh
Any electorate that turns to this 1970’s leftist retread for leadership deserves failure.
But, we need to start from scratch.
Jerry Brown is now in a focus group fabricating blame for his failure on Republicans. Jerry Brown doesn’t accept failure well.
When next we see him his face will be skewed, teeth borne, finger pointing, and waving as he blasphemes the Republicans for anything he and his focus group could imagine.
Good for the Republicans. They didn’t cave, and we can anticipate this wonderful scene of Brown going ballistic.
I have a good friend who is as Orange County Reagan Republican as they come and he voted for Brown with the idea that California was going off the cliff no matter what happened so why not have a liberal in the drivers seat. So far, his reasoning seems to be good. He remains in one of the few areas of California that still retains the ambiance of California 1966.
Since you're in WA, I thought I'd mention CA doesn't have a governor's mansion. Moonbeam sold it his first time around. He had lived there as a kid, when his dad was governor, so he refused to live in it. Governor's since have made their own living arrangements. Arnold stayed in a hotel when time didn't permit him to jet back to L.A.
“This is SOOOO easy.
Lay off 25% of ALL workers who are not Teachers, Firefighters or Cops.
Budget gap solved.”
Fire their arses too.
and all the illegals and probably is really solved!
That was what I remembered from his first term when I did live in California. He made a big deal of sleeping on a mattress on the floor in an apartment near his office. He turned down his limo and drove an old Ford (i think). Then he went to Africa with Linda Ronstadt and left the state in debt.
Why exempt teachers, cops and firemen? Every city in America could lose 25% of cops and probably not miss them. Teachers are over-rated. I rate firemen ahead of the other 2, so maybe only 10% of them.
Haven't you noticed how often there are two police cruisers even for a routine traffic stop? Haven't you noticed a horde of haz-mat guys standing around when somebody drops a bag of flower on the road? We have police sargeants in San Jose making over a quarter million a year!!!
The ranks of police and fire in California have swollen due to union work rules to the point of ridiculous, yet there is where the most scandalous of pensions lie.
Lay them off across the board.
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