The California Assembly Hall of Shame

The California Assembly ^ | 06-27-2006 | Laird

[Amerigomag]

Before the California Assembly adjourned for the summer they approved the biggest budget in California's history. A budget billons deep in red ink.

Here is a list of Republican Assemblymen that joined the Democrats and the Wilsonegger gang to pass the Austrian's BigBangBudget 2006-2007.

Aghazarian, Greg; Stockton - 26

Daucher, Lynn; Brea - 72

Emmerson, Bill; Redlands - 63

Garcia, Bonnie; Cathedral City - 80

Horton, Shirley; San Diego - 78

Houston, Guy; San Ramon - 15

Plescia, George; San Diego - 75

[Amerigomag]

Read and weep!

If these shameful folks are in your district you might think twice before voting to reelect them.

[NormsRevenge]

I'd be curious to hear what San Diego folks have to say about Plescia and his performance so far.

[Amerigomag]

I'd be curious to hear what San Diego folks have to say about Plescia and his performance so far.

I'm residing far from the boarder but even this tired, old vintner can tell that Plescia is a made man with the Wilsonegger gang. Pete Wilson, Bill Thomas and Paul Folino probably made him a deal he couldn't refuse.

[calcowgirl]

The Great "Bipartisan" Budget for 2006-07. (Republicans in blue)

MEASURE:        AB 1801
AUTHOR:         Laird
TOPIC:          Budget Act of 2006.
DATE:           06/27/2006

LOCATION:       SENATE FLOOR
                (AYES  30. NOES  10.)  (PASS)

AYES
Ackerman        Alarcon         Alquist         Ashburn
Bowen           Cedillo         Chesbro         Denham
Ducheny         Dunn            Dutton          Escutia
Figueroa        Florez          Kehoe           Kuehl
Lowenthal       Machado         Migden          Murray
Ortiz           Perata          Poochigian      Romero
Scott           Simitian        Soto            Speier
Torlakson       Vincent

NOES
Aanestad        Battin          Cox             Harman
Hollingsworth   Maldonado       Margett         McClintock
Morrow          Runner

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LOCATION:       ASSEMBLY FLOOR
                (AYES  54. NOES  23.)  (PASS)

AYES
Aghazarian      Arambula        Baca             Bass
Berg            Bermudez        Calderon         Canciamilla
Chan            Chavez          Chu              Cohn
Coto            Daucher         De La Torre      Dymally
Emmerson        Frommer         Garcia           Goldberg
Hancock         Jerome Horton   Shirley Horton   Houston
Jones           Karnette        Klehs            Koretz
Laird           Leno            Levine           Lieber
Lieu            Liu             Matthews         Montanez
Mullin          Nava            Negrete McLeod   Oropeza
Parra           Pavley          Plescia          Ridley-Thomas
Ruskin          Saldana         Salinas          Spitzer
Torrico         Umberg          Vargas           Wolk
Yee             Nunez

NOES
Benoit          Blakeslee       Bogh             Cogdill
DeVore          Haynes          Huff             Keene
La Malfa        La Suer         Leslie           Maze
McCarthy        Mountjoy        Nakanishi        Niello
Richman         Sharon Runner   Strickland       Tran
Villines        Walters         Wyland

ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING
Evans           Nation          Vacancy

[Brilliant]

'A budget billons deep in red ink.'


If they can't balance the budget during this time of plenty, then they can't do it at all.

[Mr. Jeeves]

If these shameful folks are in your district you might think twice before voting to reelect them.

Guy Houston is mine, but he's generally OK...I'm not going to vote against one of the tiny handful of Republicans still representing the Bay Area.

[Amerigomag]

That's no fair.

There's got to be some mystery remaining in politics and a little hard work helps the memory.

If I could find it*, they could find it. This forum is not populated by the HTML challenged.

Thanks for the due diligence and, as always, excellent work product.

*From the link provided type in the text, search string "budget" and look around for Laird's name or the title: "Budget Act of 2006" (the first subtle clue). After the redirect, look for "Votes - Assembly Floor - 06/27/2006" (the second subtle clue).

[calcowgirl]

LOL. I often use the same method you describe in searching for legislation. You get some real interesting results if you type in things like "Mexico" or "Trade".

In this case, I just wandered on over to Speaker Fabian's website and voila! A bill number! It made searching much easier (but possibly less satisfying, lol).

http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a46/press/a462006100.htm

[Amerigomag]

I just wandered on over to Speaker Fabian's website

That's my problem. I don't traffic in anchor babies. Just too old fashioned.

[calcowgirl]

BTW, I didn't try to figure out what the 12 trailer bills were. Perhaps someone else will give that a shot (or not). ;-)

From CaliforniaProgressReport.com:

Much of the action on the budget is hidden from public view—or at least obscured—and we will not know parts of it for a few days, as curious members of the public, the media, bloggers, and even the legislators themselves read what they have passed. The main piece of legislation, AB 1801, the budget conference report, which was passed by a vote of 54 to 22 in the Assembly and 30 to 10 in the Senate, is only part of this complex package. There were 12 “trailer bills,” some of them quite complex and byzantine, which also needed to pass with support from two-thirds of both houses for this to become a final product.

[calcowgirl]

I checked Ackerman and Plescia's website first--to no avail.

Our legislative 'leaders' could certainly use some improvement in the webhosting business. As it is, I'm now receiving Ackerman's daily Senate news briefs about 20-48 hours after they are sent. So much for technology!

[Amerigomag]

I didn't try to figure out what the 12 trailer bills were

Keep an eye on the target.

Look for the resurrection of the indemnification of the Prop 57 bond holders after it failed last November. May be in one of the trailers or, more probably, buried in one of the bond measure initiatives for November. It's at the heart of the Austrian's BigBangBonds strategy and California is dead meat in the bond market without it.

[calcowgirl]

I found the resurrection of the additional deferrals of borrowed monies (that they included in Prop 76 before).
It's hiding in Proposition 1A (bill: SCA 7). It may also have included the indemnification. I only scanned it.
(This is the measure that is supposed to lock in Prop 42. No surprise--It doesn't!)

By the way (if you didn't see it before), I put the whole Hall of Shame for the votes on the Bond measures on my freeper profile page.
I thought it might come in handy.

[newzjunkey]

Plescia is my legislative rep. He's was a better soldier in the minority than as its leader.