Posted on 03/26/2011 10:18:55 AM PDT by SmithL
Sacramento - -- The up-and-down budget negotiations at the Capitol appeared to have taken a nosedive Friday, as Republican leaders in the Senate presented Gov. Jerry Brown with a long list of issues they want resolved before agreeing to vote to allow a special election on Brown's plan.
Then after a day of vague statements on what they wanted, Republicans on Friday night released publicly a point-by-point list of what they had offered, what had been rejected and what the administration agreed to or countered with.
...Action on the budget has been stalled all week as Democrats awaited the Republicans' demands. Two Republicans from each house of the Legislature are needed to join all the Democrats to call a special election to allow voters to decide whether to approve the taxes to help close California's $26.6 billion deficit.
"We made the presentation to the governor as far as what we felt was necessary and more to restore California and help create jobs,"...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
FWIW, the Rats have convinced themselves that they can legally put the taxes on the June ballot without the 2/3 vote of the legislature. Whether they are correct remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, back at the California Ranch, businesses and people are leaving to a less tax hassle enviroment.
Appeal Proposition 187 to the United States Supreme Court, where it will be ruled very Constitutional, and then enforce it.
Presto. Billions reappear, roads will be repaired, schools will become uncrowded, the welfare rolls will drop precipitously, and the birds will come out and sing in the sunshine.
All ya gotta do is implement the Will of the People, Jerry Geezer.
Appeal Proposition 187 to the United States Supreme Court, where it will be ruled very Constitutional, and then enforce it.BTTT for #4
You're exactly right, Regulator. The court's reversal of Prop 187 was one of the most destructive things I ever witnessed in my 50+ years as a Californian. It was essentially a death sentence for the people of California, and was one of the largest contributing factors to the current exodus of productive Americans from the state.
California's budget deficit almost exactly matches the state's annual expenditures on illegal aliens. You'd think that this glaring fact would show up on the legislature's radar, and would help them to put two and two together, but apparently not.
One way or another, the folks up in Sacramento are going to make the native-born citizens of the state shoulder the burden for their cowardice and malfeasance.
Oh, they know. They don't want to stop it.
The unholy alliance is of state employees who administer the welfare programs to their clients...the illegals. A little gravy train that goes on forever.
We just pay for it.
We just pay for it.
And there are fewer and fewer Californians willing to continue playing that losing game. I quit in late 2005, and thousands upon thousands have followed me, since.
At some point, the wagon is gonna roll to a stop, because there won't be anyone left to pull it.
Sadly, they own the courts, they can do anything they want.
Regulator,
It’s much more than ideological, it’s the purchase of loyal and dependent constituents to keep some people in high paying jobs with a lot of power. People who wouldn’t do well in merit-based private industry.
Right now, I’m proud of the Republicans here in Kalifornia. Someone may buy them off or they may cave in later, but right now I’m pleased with them. I wish the Repubs in Congress would do this too.
One king in a black robe, Felton (or Thelton?) Henderson, pulled a ruling out of his ass - and encouraged the continuing invasion of illegal intruders. And subsequent Governors (Davis, Schrwarzenkennedy, Brown) and State Attorney Generals (Locklyear, Brown, Harris) have refused to uphold the Constitutional rights of California citizens.
Henderson was the ridiculous clown who overturned Prop 209...only to be reversed by the appellate court.
The whole mad construct of California liberalism is crashing down around us. They are going nuts trying to stop the wreck, but...ain't gonna happen.
Moonbeam wants to give the people the power to maintain
or reject the status quo with regard to taxes in the form
of a vote. This from a man who is willing to take the
voters to court when he philosophically disagrees with
decisions made by the voters through the elective pro-
cess. I can’t think of many things more cynical.
You are absolutely right. All these years I had remembered it as Thelton Henderson. But you're right (I had to check) he was the black robed royal who tried to stop 209 ... I'm glad that one at least got overturned by the Appellate Court -- albeit I don't know if anything has changed in actual practice regarding affirmative action (reverse discrimination) -- although they probably call it something else now.
Too bad Prop 187 was never appealed. That one should have been a slam dunk...
I'll have to remember the name Mariana Pfaelzter (...well, given that her name is a jumbled up mess of random letters - I probably won't remember it... Just that it wasn't Thelton Henderson).
All ya gotta do is implement the Will of the People, Jerry Geezer.
During his first campaign swing through California in June, Bush said he was “against the spirit” of Proposition 187-which in part would prevent illegal immigrants from attending public schools-and would not have supported a similar measure for Texas. “I felt like every child ought to be educated regardless of the status of their parents,” he said. The enemy within.
State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said he was ready Friday to “pull the plug” on the current plan and the negotiations with Republicans.
So just do it already! And we’ll let you take the blame for this bag-o-crap.
I second that motion.
Then abolish CARB.
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