Posted on 04/13/2011 8:12:56 AM PDT by SmithL
The leader of California's largest teachers union said Tuesday that Gov. Jerry Brown should bypass voters and seek the approval of the Legislature for new taxes to close the state's deficit.
David Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association, said the union could have a harder time supporting an election later in the year, which is what would have to happen if the governor were to keep his campaign pledge.
"If the governor were to propose an election say in September or November, it no longer becomes a question of extending the current taxes," Sanchez said. "It then becomes a question of raising taxes, which would be extremely more difficult and challenging (for) voters to pass."
The governor is facing mounting pressure to drop his campaign pledge to put tax extensions and increases on the ballot. Sanchez's statement carries weight because the teachers association is one of Brown's most powerful labor allies and would presumably be a key source of funding for any tax campaign.
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Why doesn’t he just issue an executive order increasing taxes?
That’s plan B.
I can’t think of two state governments so completely owned by the education mafia as California and New Jersey.
New Jersey, at least, now has a governor who appears ready to confront the thugs.
We were that way here in Michigan but we’re fighting back against the “impoverished” $80,000 a year teachers. Rick Snyder has taken a different route than the states making lots of news. He’s not really taking them on directly but outflanking them and using administrative measures against them.
Fortunately, here in Pennsylvania there is an omnipresent state senate firewall against Democrat union thuggery. Even when the rats have the state House and the Governor’s mansion, the senate is dominated by Republicans. Like Carville once said, “Pennsylvania is Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other, and Alabama in between.”
Union mischief is limited to the concentrated parasite nests (”cities”) and their nearby suburban districts.
typical of a small group of liberals&activists to try and make a populace bow to their commands..
Governor Jerry Azzhole Brown, the butt boy of the public employee unions.
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