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CA: A moderating influence
SFGate.com ^
| 2/29/04
| Debra J. Saunders
Posted on 02/29/2004 11:03:03 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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PROPOSITION 56 supporters promise less "partisan gridlock" if voters lower the threshold needed to pass a budget in Sacramento to 55 percent from a two-thirds vote of the state Assembly and Senate.
Opponents counter that there would be less gridlock because state lawmakers would happily raise taxes. So the Proposition 56 folks came up with some gimmicks to entice voters fed up with politics as usual. One provision would revoke the pay of legislators for every day they miss the budget's ostensible June 15 deadline. Another would make legislators work until a budget is passed.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; gridlock; influence; moderating; prop56
To: *calgov2002; california
Vote Your PocketBook.. Not Your "Conscience".
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posted on
02/29/2004 11:04:00 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... NO NO NO NO on Props 55-58)
To: NormsRevenge
Partisan gridlock. Since the state legislature is dominated by Democrats, there sure won't be any partisan gridlock. But we'll be seeing lots of partisan tax increases breezing right through.
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posted on
02/29/2004 11:05:28 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: NormsRevenge
California will undergo, in Prop 56, a sanity test. Are there enough con-artists, parasites, and crooked politicians to make it pass?
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posted on
02/29/2004 11:05:48 AM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: NormsRevenge; onyx; Brad's Gramma; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; tubebender
Everyone must be out enjoying the glorious sunshine!
The Beach is breezy but beautiful today.
Yesterday you could see the Catalina Island, no so today!
Clouds in the east so perhaps more weather moving in again.
This is the one the Demonic Rats want to pass!
Has the keys to the candy store for them!
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posted on
02/29/2004 2:38:19 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We'll be stopping by Catalina in late summer. I have never been there before.
We're supposed to get wet late tonight and tomorrow.
Prop 56 is the worst of all the props ... and obviously the one the Rats want most. Until a majority of the 'Rats are sent packing, reform attempts and borrowing bonds are just fighting a rising tide of manure.
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posted on
02/29/2004 2:45:56 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... NO NO NO NO on Props 55-58)
To: FormerACLUmember
It could pass, the Ads are very deceitful!
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posted on
02/29/2004 3:13:33 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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