Posted on 04/22/2009 9:24:04 PM PDT by SmithL
Days after a Republican congressman asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to step down, Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines has a target on his back.
Shawn Steel, a former California Republican Party chairman and one of two representatives to the Republican National Committee, on Wednesday told Rob Johnson of Modesto's KMPH 840 that he and other Republicans plan to ask Villines to step down from his Capitol leadership post.
Steel said Republicans are angry that Villines helped approve billions in temporary taxes during the latest budget agreement and that he is now advocating passage of Proposition 1A, which contains a spending limit but also $16 billion in additional taxes.
"We are definitely going to be going straight forward and asking that he, after the election on May 19th, that he resigns, he steps down," Steel said. "It's embarrassing having a Republican supporting one of the biggest tax increases in American history on a state level. And he doesn't have good justification for it."
Steel didn't specify which "state party leaders," besides himself, would ask for the resignation. Steel was not immediately available for comment Wednesday.
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Approval of the taxes was bad enough. But the "spending limit" has been exposed as a massive sham that will solve nothing. Yet Villines sends out propaganda claiming "Proposition 1A represents a significant victory for taxpayers" and that it will "tie the hands of legislative liberals" among other non-sensical statements.
So, you have to conclude he either favors continued fiscal irresponsibility or that he's too ignorant to see it when it is presented to him. Either way, it doesn't make him look good.
Of course, so much of this would be moot if we actually had some leadership coming out of the Governor’s office. Of course, we haven’t seen that since the, what, early ‘90s ?
Those Republican, CenCal heavyweights who promoted the Austrian are the same that created and control Villines.
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