$8 billion [California]state budget gap predicted

Contra Costa Times ^ | May 23, 2002 | Alexa Haussler

[snopercod]

California has a "constitutionally protected" balanced budget, too. Furthermore, the California constitution prohibits the state from borrowing more than $300,000 without a 2/3 vote of the legislature AND a vote of the people.

It's pretty obvious that the California Constitution is so much toilet paper these days.

[spald]

Impeachable offensives?

[heleny]

about 02:19 - 02:21 (hh:mm) into the Roger Hedgecock Show archives from Friday, 5/24/02 (realplayer).

And I just wanted to get to this, because people said, 'Roger, what? You say they stole the dental money?'

I got this from a dentist who says, 'look, the California Dental Association is governed by something called the Dental Board of Examiners. It's a State of California division of the Department of Consumer Affairs. They supervise licensing of people in the dental profession in California.'

And he says, 'the board has always been made up of prominent dentists, many of whom are clinical instructors in dental schools, along with some public members and representatives from dental auxiliaries. The board with its strict oversight has been very successful and effective in maintaining high standards in the dental profession.

'The board collects a $365 license fee for every two years from every dentist and a lesser fee from hygienists and auxiliaries. With about 50,000+ dentists in the state, the board's budget is quite large.

'All this changed,' he writes, 'about nine months ago when our governor personally fired the entire dental board. After scraping the barrel of potential yes-men for several months, the new dental board, handpicked by the governor, is composed of dentists with little prominence.

'As you would expect, the board's first act -- at their very first meeting of the new board, April 24 -- was to loan [sic] their entire reserve funds of the Dental Board to the governor.'


He's looting every nook and cranny, dumbing down and destroying ... even the consumer protection part of the state government that he professes as a liberal, of course, to support. He's even going to the position here of emasculating the oversight board for dentists.

So, I don't know, these Dufuss updates -- I don't know how much farther I have to go, and I sure don't know what's going on with Bill Simon. How come he's not raising these issues?

I could not tell from listening to the archives whether the loan to the governor was to his reelection fund or to his office.

[heleny]

According to Senator Mcklintock (sp?), if over this same period spending had increased only by the combination of inflation and population growth, even given Dufus' expert handling of the energy crisis, we would be sitting on a $15-20B SURPLUS this year.

A "Go Tom McClintock" and "Dump Davis" Bump!
And, he will make a fine state Treasurer.

[heleny]

correction: McClintock will make a fine state Treasurer, not Davis.

[snopercod]

Impeachable offensives?

It would seem so, but the democRAT legislature is an accessory to Davis's crimes. They gave him "emergency powers" - which they haven't revoked - so they must think he's doing a fine job as a dictator.

Also, voters can recall public officials in California like they did with Rose Bird. But with the election so close, that would be impractical - all they have to do is vote the culprit out. Frankly, I'll be surprised if that happens.

[snopercod]

Wow! It's a shame that most Californians will never hear this, thanks to the syncophant press out there.

[spald]

I spoke to a good friend who runs a warehouse outside of Fresno CA. He said the businesses are still paying electrical rates at the same high point even though CA is purchasing power at levels half of what they were during the power crisis. He suspects this 100% surchare on prices to businesses will make up the $28B deficit quickly. My thought is that $28B is a HUGE amount to be made up.