Boxer: Budget Stalemate Could Hurt Calif. Stimulus

SFChronicle ^ | February 18, 2009

[Naspino]

At some point they will just vote to do away with future votes and opposition. Its just too damn important to get people the bread and water they need. They cannot afford to let Republicans hold up their undoing of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[unkus]

The way things are going right now, I don’t even want to

think what the United States would be like in 100 years. It

won’t be a United States, it will be Hell. Totally

unrecognizable as a civil, livable place.

[eclecticEel]

The state ‘rats are calling out their big guns; now things are getting interesting.

[BurbankKarl]

Abel Maldonado is headed for bigger things...

[calcowgirl]

FYI

Both Senate and Assembly now to convene at 10PM.
The Assy has been on hiatus for days now, so something might be up (or down)

There are some twitterers out there in the Capitol:
http://twitter.com/capitolweekly
http://twitter.com/KQED_CapNotes

[calcowgirl]

A bipartisan package that legislative leaders negotiated with Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bipartisan.... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

[calcowgirl]

Apparently there are already drafts for an open primary circulating in the capitol:

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/openprimary.pdf

[calcowgirl]

Uh...oh

From another twitterer:

http://twitter.com/justin_hart

Senate session moved to 11:00... crazy.
7 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Hearing from @chuckdevore
ALMOST CERTAIN TAX HIKES WILL PASS TONIGHT.
#TCOT A sad, sad day.
27 minutes ago from TweetDeck

[calcowgirl]

Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is also twittering on the happenings:

http://twitter.com/chuckdevore

Chuck : Assembly coming back at 9pm, supposedly the 3 demands of Sen. Maldonado have been met - here comes a 17 ..

about 1 hour ago from twitterfeed

[calcowgirl]

Dang! What lousy timing:

Twitter is currently down for Unplanned maintenance.

We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.

[calcowgirl]

http://twitter.com/allanbartlett

Steinberg in Abel’s office right now .....Abel’s selling his soul I was just told

[calcowgirl]

http://twitter.com/capitolweekly

Irony watch — The Legislature jammed a close primary initiative onto the ballot in 2004
3 minutes ago from mobile web

top two primary is in play. trying to secure the votes
4 minutes ago from mobile web

we’re back. so’s the senate
6 minutes ago from mobile web

Rumors abound that progress is being made. Don’t forget the grain of salt...tune in at 11 pm L.S.T.
about 1 hour ago from mobile web

[AmericanSphinx71]

God forgive me, but I HATE THIS F***ING BITCH!

She has been my states Senator since 1993 and it’s embarassing she keeps getting elected. When she was in the House, she bounced over $200,000 in checks and got away with it! Still we keep electing her her, because she protects our abortion rights.

F*** this f***ing state!

[kcvl]

$26 billion in economic-recovery funding

I hope someone reads the guidelines in order to receive those billions before they take it.

Our mayor did and he refuses to take anything from the 'stimulus' package. He said there are so many strings attached to the money that it would actually cost the city more to hire people to adhere to the regulations and guidelines than it was worth.

The mayor also said the so-called stimulus wouldn't stimulate anything but more Federal regulations.

There may be more states and local governments saying NO THANK YOU once they actually read this mess!

[dalereed]

Hopefully we won’t get one cent of the Kenyans stimulus and can force the state into bankruptcy!!!

[calcowgirl]

From multiple twitterers:

chuckdevore
Interesting and suspicious that the CalChannel has been down for most of these late night sessions www.calchannel.com #TCOT
less than 5 seconds ago from web

KQED_CapNotes
Appears tweets during Twtr outage didn’t go thru. Both pro tem Steinberg & Speaker Bass told reporters it’ll be a long nite.
1 minute ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
The open primary proposal, according to sources, would allow top 2 vote getters...regardless of party...to advance to Nov. election.
4 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
Senate Dems have gone back to caucus
5 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
As long as the backers can cobble together a group of legislators on each proposal, it works.
5 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
But, as has been pointed out to me, you don’t have to have the same people on each proposal.
6 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

chuckdevore Chuck
CA State Senate is now in Caucus. Pins and needles... #TCOT
7 minutes ago from web

KQED_CapNotes
This set of proposals is a multi dimensional political chess game. Remember, you need 27 votes in the Senate and 54 in the Asmbly
7 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

chuckdevore
Assembly Floor session with Dem caucus — probably whipping votes for Sen. Maldonado’s open primary #TCOT.
7 minutes ago from web

KQED_CapNotes
The issues are under discussion...not...a deal. Not yet, at least.
10 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
So why report it if not confirmed? Because every single source says these are the things under discussion at this hour. So let’s call it
11 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

KQED_CapNotes
But there’s been lots o’talk of a deal...based on the issues outlined by Sen. Maldonado (R). However...for now...there’s NO confirmation.
13 minutes ago from TinyTwitter

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the twitter:

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# John & Ken just issued a threat to recall one of the six new Freshman GOP Assembly members in the Southern CA area. #tcot about 8 hours ago from web

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So that is the talk about a recall....

[CAluvdubya]

So Maldonado is gonna fold to get open primaries to get re-elected? Did I get this screwed up from the twitter stuff?

[Jeff Gordon]

Can someone summarize. What is this open primary issue?

[calcowgirl]

Nope. You got it right. Read from the bottom (later) up (most recent). That is what is predicted. There is a draft of the actual language already floating around the capitol (I posted a link a little while ago).

First, they have to convince all the Dems in the Assy to vote for Abel’s demand list. Both the Senate and Assy convened and immediately went into caucus.

I’d never used twitter before — kinda cool!