Also realize that a majority of the Senate GOP Caucus joined Tom McClintock in voting against this budget:
Aanestad, Battin, Brulte, Denham, Hollingsworth, Margett, Morrow, Oller and Poochigian voted against the budget.
Among the Senate GOP caucus, the vote was 4 ayes and 10 nays.
Excellent point. Thanks.
I know you know this, so it's rather odd me having to mention it. If every Republican voted for this plan, would it pass if the dems couldn't sign on? You can only do what you can do. I don't know all aspects of this budget. I do know it's next to impossible to drive anything of a conservative nature through that state house. Just about anything this governor drives through that we can get behind, that is resonable from a conservative point of view, we should be thankful for.
This was a John Burton budget. I would have voted against it too. It borrows too much, spends too much, and cuts too little. No tax increases are nothing to cheer about cause basically this is a big government budget propped up by a lot of borrowing and fiscal accounting gimmicks. Where are the savings?