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CA: Assembly's first budget debate indicates it'll be a long process
Sac Bee ^ | 1/29/03 | Dan Walters

Posted on 01/29/2003 8:02:39 AM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:47:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

With dozens of uniformed firefighters and gun-toting policemen looking down from the gallery, the state Assembly conducted its first extensive debate and series of votes on the state's immense budget crisis Tuesday.

The four-hour-plus session was, for the most part, what one grizzled veteran of the Capitol termed a "PBD," shorthand for "pointless budget drill." Democrats presented a series of bills that they said would help close the multibillion-dollar budget gap by cutting spending and raising taxes on cars, and Republicans, for the most part, opposed them as either cutting too little or taxing too much. But since Democrats outnumber the Republicans, all the bills passed handily after the requisite amount of partisan hand-wringing and finger-pointing.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: assembly; budget; debate; lengthy
Her name nor Kuehl's is mentioned but keep an eye on Oropeza D-LongBeach; Hitlary wannabees in training. What a whiney little POS.

There is no love lost between the demRats and the Republicans who must stand tall in the face of socialist insanity.

1 posted on 01/29/2003 8:02:39 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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And he wants to do it with as few new taxes as possible because he doesn't want to go into the history books as a tax-and-spend governor.

To late...

2 posted on 01/29/2003 8:09:45 AM PST by Drango (don't need no stinkin' tag line)
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Too late.

You beat me to it.

3 posted on 01/29/2003 9:27:10 AM PST by aught-6
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To: NormsRevenge
if enacted, would make it impossible for Republicans and anti-tax groups to challenge the tax by referendum

Do it anyway and let the courts figure it out. A court injunction against the Rats while it is litigated is probably good for 5 years.

4 posted on 01/29/2003 12:41:36 PM PST by IncredibleHulk
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