Posted on 05/30/2002 5:39:48 PM PDT by randita
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:37:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Lawmakers broke an initial state budget deadlock Thursday after Senate Democrats agreed to remove $3.5 billion in tax increases from a preliminary budget plan.
The move cleared the way for the Senate to approve its version of the budget 27-12, and for a six-member, two-house conference committee to begin efforts to put together a budget compromise.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, warned Republicans that if they hold up the budget and cripple state government it could backfire on them in the November elections.
"If this body allows the government of the state to be impaired the way the federal government was impaired in 1995, then the public will see its way clear to find out who was responsible," he said.
"Making operation of the state a partisan rather than a nonpartisan operation does not benefit anyone."
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The guys days are numbered as a legislator, but in my opinion, he cant leave soon enough.
Perata must be smoking something. You can't threaten a looser with a loss.
When is the last time Republicans won anything in November in California.
Vote NO tax increaces!
"If this body allows the government of the state to be impaired the way the federal government was impaired in 1995, then the public will see its way clear to find out who was responsible," he said.
Bulldookey...
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"Making operation of the state a partisan rather than a nonpartisan operation does not benefit anyone."
That's not what the Demroncratas were saying after the last election when they took control...
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