(CA) Demos Caught in Budget Gaffe Open Mike Picks up Faction's Talk of Profiting From a Crisis

SF Chronicle ^ | July 22, 2003 | Lynda Gledhill

[Weimdog]

Sacramento -- The state's budget crisis took a surreal turn Monday after a frank discussion by a group of Democrats on the budget and its impact on their re- election was accidentally broadcast throughout legislative and reporters' offices.

Members of the Assembly Democrats' progressive caucus were heard making candid, if not intemperate, statements such as one by Los Angeles Assemblyman Fabian Nunez that they may want to "precipitate a crisis" over the budget this year. That might persuade voters to lower the two-thirds vote threshold needed to pass a spending plan, he reasoned.

[Weimdog]

Caught the Democrats conspiring to tax the state to death!

[Southack]

Wow!

[Paul Atreides]

"Oh s--," Goldberg said as the sound was cut.

LOL!

[mvpel]

CRIMINALS!! CRIMINALS!! CRIMINALS!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

You gotta love it!!!!!!!!

[mvpel]

Time for another few recall petitions, I reckon.

[freekitty]

I see business as usual.

[Orangedog]

Wait and see how long it takes for the media to spike this one....

"Open microphone?....trying to intentionally cause a crisis?...nobody in the statehouse said that. I don't know what you're talking about."

OR

"The Republican's just need to let go of this and move on so we can get back to the business of helping the poor!"

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

"Oh s--," Goldberg said

Yes, Goldberg, you can recognize it. But will you do anything to clean it up? Nope, didn't think so--that's a job left to the GOP, to clean up the s--- left by the Criminal Party!

[Zathras]

You won't see this in AP, or LA Times or NYT.

[My2Cents]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find partisan politics going on in the California legislature.

[mountaineer]

Story also posted here

[telebob]

"We're on a death march to insolvency," she said. "We want to figure out how to let the people understand that we may be setting ourselves up for disaster."

She got the first part right but she's using the wrong tense for the last part. The disaster is already here.

[drypowder]

"Their intention is to destroy the state of California and its financial base," said Assembly Minority Leader Dave Cox of Fair Oaks. "They intend to hold up the budget."

The people who work for state agencies have been told they will receive minimum wage beginning in August if no budget is passed. Some state employees will lose their jobs altogether, budget or no budget. State employees provide services to the whole of the state's population and this is aside from the $ that gets funneled to the private sector through these state agencies. Obviously these Dems could care less of the impact that will have state wide.

[Republicus2001]

I heard her once at LA City Hall go on and on about the Process, over and over she kept on about how she had the Process...

Wasn't the Process the name of some looney Malibu/Santa Barbara based Scientology-type rich hippie cult LSD smuggling ... the Process, the Process,

can't remember if I've ever seen Jackie on the sand tho'...hmmm...

[Republicus2001]

Believe it or not it made Page 1 this morning LA Times...I must be on Bizarro World...

[mvpel]

. . . their intransigence on the budget will almost certainly cause the state to miss first its CalGrant payment," due Aug. 1. On average, each of the 200,000 students in the program is supposed to receive $1,000.

Boo freakin' hoo. Tell 'em to get a job at McDonald's for $6.75 an hour and work the equivalent of three and a half weeks.

[jagrmeister]

Democrats want to "precipitate a crisis", in their very own words. This should be on every CA talk radio station. And it's not helpful for any conservative to go "That's news?". Yes it is news. For Democrats to speak openly about manufacturing an economic crisis in America is like identifying a terrorist openly hatching a plot to destroy an important pillar of America. What this shows is that Democrats are willing to make millions of people suffer economically in order to win a few votes at the polls.

[.cnI redruM]

"For Democrats to speak openly about manufacturing an economic crisis in America is like identifying a terrorist openly hatching a plot to destroy an important pillar of America. What this shows is that Democrats are willing to make millions of people suffer economically in order to win a few votes at the polls."

Hence their opposition to tax cuts and their demands for additions to the prescription drug benefit. They will stop at nothing to further their own ends.

[timestax]

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