Posted on 03/23/2006 5:33:13 PM PST by Amerigomag
** Last night's "Big Five" meeting reported here, between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic and Republican legislative leaders on their next steps for moving some version of the big infrastructure bonds package forward, seems to have come up with little so far. Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata summed up afterward saying the governor was urging a legislative solution. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez continues to hold out some hope for the school construction and levee repair bonds passed in his house. Republican sources say their caucuses are less than enthused.
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Curious, on the surface, in the face of the votes on the 15th. But ... it was speculated that the Republican votes in the Assembly were throw away votes to get the WG off their backs.
14 voted to support Nunez's bail out of the LAUSD, 23 voted to support the Austrian's green, Sacramento River, reclamation bill, but every Republican Assemblyman knew, when they cast their vote, that the vote didn't matter since the Senate had adjourned.
It's a mess. Sausage is one thing, but scrapple is something else entirely.
Time to give it up.
Yeah, the answer to everything in California is another bond issue. At some point, the CA debt will be higher than the US debt. The CA state government might even surpass Congress in its annual deficit in another decade of Dimocrat rule.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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