If this is taxes with reprsentation
Give me taxes without representation
I much prefer a tax on tea!
Instead of everything else.
Actually, the vote was along party-lines in the state Senate, with the Democrats voting overwhelmingly for it and just enough (two) Republicans to pass it (by one vote). Like the budget bills, placing Prop 57 on the ballot required a 2/3 vote.
VOTES - ROLL CALL MEASURE: ABX5 9 AUTHOR: Oropeza TOPIC: Economic recovery bonds. DATE: 12/12/2003 LOCATION: SEN. FLOOR MOTION: W/O REF. TO FILE AB9 Oropeza By Chesbro (AYES 27. NOES 12.) (PASS) AYES **** Ackerman Alarcon Alpert Bowen Brulte Burton Cedillo Chesbro Ducheny Dunn Escutia Figueroa Florez Karnette Kuehl Machado Murray Ortiz Perata Romero Scott Sher Soto Speier Torlakson Vasconcellos Vincent NOES **** Aanestad Ashburn Battin Denham Hollingsworth Johnson Margett McClintock McPherson Morrow Oller Poochigian ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING ********************************* Knight
VOTES - ROLL CALL MEASURE: ABX5 9 AUTHOR: Oropeza TOPIC: Economic recovery bonds. DATE: 12/11/2003 LOCATION: ASM. FLOOR MOTION: AB9 Oropeza Third Reading Urgency Fifth Extraordinary Session (AYES 65. NOES 13.) (PASS) AYES **** Aghazarian Benoit Berg Bermudez
Bogh Calderon Canciamilla Chu Cogdill Cohn Corbett Correa Cox Daucher Diaz Dutra Dutton Dymally Firebaugh Goldberg Harman Jerome Horton Shirley Horton Houston Jackson Keene Kehoe Koretz La Malfa La Suer Laird Leno Leslie Levine Lieber Liu Longville Lowenthal Matthews McCarthy Montanez Mullin Nakanishi Nakano Nation Negrete McLeod Nunez Oropeza Pacheco Parra Pavley Plescia Reyes Richman Ridley-Thomas Runner Salinas Samuelian Spitzer Steinberg Vargas Wiggins Wolk Yee Wesson NOES **** Bates Campbell Chavez Frommer Garcia Haynes Maddox Maldonado Maze Mountjoy Simitian Strickland Wyland ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING ********************************* Chan Hancock