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CA: Ready to adjourn: GOP may balk at union deals
Sac Bee ^
| 9/12/03
| John Hill
Posted on 09/12/2003 8:21:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:57:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Contracts that Gov. Gray Davis' administration negotiated with politically powerful state employee unions to save money this year will jack up costs in the future, and Republican lawmakers said Thursday they might withhold support.
"It looks to us like the deals are pretty sweet," said Assembly Republican leader Dave Cox of Fair Oaks.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: adjourn; balk; calgov2002; davis; ready; recall; uniondeals
To: *calgov2002
The Raping of a state continues
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:22:25 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
As the Legislature races toward adjournment today, Sen. Ross Johnson, R-Irvine, takes a catnap Thursday.
Sacramento Bee/Jay Mather |
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:23:29 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
The Great California Shell Game.
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:35:52 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........I believe in using the abuse button......)
To: NormsRevenge
Public employee unions have been among the Democratic governor's biggest supporters, and......."They're crappy deals,"The public employee unions of this state and others will eventually bankrupt the states or require federal intervention because the state legislatures will be powerless against the unions. Unfortunately, the Feds tend to destroy what they touch, in order to save it.
Since the union movement abandoned the private worker and went after a continous source of revenue, the public workers, California has declined in equal measure as the unions prospered.
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:41:34 AM PDT
by
elbucko
To: NormsRevenge
Ive known police contracts that vary all over the map. Firefighters typically have a gravy pension/health & welfare plan as it is. Most people would call it obscene.
But its a sweet job if you can stand waiting in line long enough to get it.
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:49:38 AM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: NormsRevenge
In a last-minute bill also related to government workers, public safety employees would be able to earn pensions equaling 100 percent of their salaries, an increase from the current 90 percent. The author of SB 53, Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Santa Ana,It would be cheaper to pay government workers 50% of their salary not to work at all, and use the other 50% to contract the service privately.
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:51:42 AM PDT
by
elbucko
To: Who dat?
Firefighters typically have a gravy pension/health & welfare plan as it is. Most people would call it obscene.<p<That's for sure. A "retired" fireman in my neighborhood has more "adult toys" than his family can use. He and his wife have new Luxury SUV's. He claims he inherited money. We all know from where. The taxpayer.
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posted on
09/12/2003 8:56:52 AM PDT
by
elbucko
To: EggsAckley
Yup.
75 degrees at 9 am . ;-)
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posted on
09/12/2003 9:14:32 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
80 degrees here. Hot all night. 79 in the house.
~</;o)
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posted on
09/12/2003 9:33:30 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........I believe in using the abuse button......)
To: NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Portrait of a Politician at Work, Diligent Public Servant.
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posted on
09/12/2003 9:48:32 AM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
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