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  • California: Bay Area leaders rally to prevent budget raids

    05/13/2002 10:12:04 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 13 replies · 425+ views
    The San Jose Mercury News ^ | Mon, May. 13, 2002 | Ann E. Marimow
    <p>When Gov. Gray Davis releases his revised budget plan this week, a bus load of Bay Area leaders plan to be there with a message: Don't solve the state's problems by seizing local dollars.</p> <p>Government officials say basic services like health care, libraries and street maintenance are at risk if the state relies on local money to fix an estimated $20 billion budget shortfall -- California's worst deficit in a decade.</p>