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Posted on 01/27/2012 12:00:24 PM PST by SmithL
Last Tuesday, the Public Policy Institute of California issued a new poll that found, among other things, just 17 percent of the state's voters like the Legislature's performance.
Simultaneously, the Legislature's top leaders provided another reason for Californians to harbor such scorn.
Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announced that they would spend untold amounts of taxpayers' money on high-priced lawyers to sue state Controller John Chiang over his decision to withhold legislators' paychecks last year after they failed to enact a balanced budget.
Chiang was merely enforcing a new provision of the state constitution that voters enacted in 2010 – a change of budget law that the Democratic legislative leaders themselves had championed, along with their allies in public employee unions.
Proposition 25's chief purpose was to eliminate the two-thirds legislative vote requirement on budgets, thereby allowing Democrats to pass budgets without Republicans. Concerned that voters would see that as a naked power grab, the measure's sponsors included a sweetener: legislators' pay would be docked if they didn't balance the budget by June 15.
It was a campaign gimmick, and the measure's sponsors never thought that it would actually be applied. After all, they assumed, the Legislature could pass some kind of budget by June 15 and pronounce it balanced to technically comply.
That's exactly what the Legislature did, but Gov. Jerry Brown then vetoed the plan, declaring it unbalanced, and Chiang invoked Proposition 25 to cut off legislators' pay.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announced that they would spend untold amounts of taxpayers' money on high-priced lawyers to sue state Controller John ChiangYour tax dollars at work and play!
Insanity.
In other words they want to declare it balanced when its not.
How is this a solution to their budget problem?
Californians will complain endlessly, but that isn’t going to stop them from voting in Democrat assemblies for the rest of our lifetimes. Face it, Californians are getting exactly the representation they want and deserve.
All conservative minded people should leave CA while they still can. It would be best if CA imploded so they can serve as a stark lesson to other states - an American version of Greece. In the meantime, many of the other states that still have a chance are being overrun with liberals (VA, NC, CO, NV, etc) and could really use your help.
150-200 years ago they would have been eligible for a coating of tar and feathers.
All conservative minded people should leave CA
...already did and fear for all the friends and relatives in so. CA when all the amish yoots start rioting this summer...
wish I’d gotten to TX sooner!!
ymmv
The solution to that is to form square and fire by platoons. Ever see the movie "Zulu"?
California, lol.
One of my all-time favorites; even own a copy.
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