UPDATE:  Well, it’s not news.  But if you are looking for something to do, click here and look to the bottom of the right hand column.  You’ll see Dave Cox mentioned…

Well it would appear that the State Legislature is going to meet into the wee hours.

Conventional wisdom seems to be that in the Assembly, Republicans Villines, Adams and Niello are set to go up on $14 billion++ in tax increases.  In the Senate, Republicans Cogdill and Ashburn seem ready to go up on the taxes, but the third vote is being elusive.  It belongs to State Senator Dave Cox who is the only other Senate Republican who has not make it clear he is opposing the plan.

Currently Cox is proposing an amendment concerning how Proposition 10 monies are reallocated (a pet issue of his).  Apparently Cox has a whole boatload of amendments, and I suspect that one of them is not an amendment to take all of the tax increases out of the plan…

Well, right now, he is apparently all that stands between here and there — and there is a very bad place for California taxpayers, and a very ugly place for the Grand Old Party.

It would be nice if Cox would just tell the Democrats that an all-night session on a holiday weekend, far away from the public spotlight, is not a good time for debating massive packages like this.

In the end, if he wanted to force the issue…  He could.  He has all of the cards.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.