When the Wall Street Journal bellows that the "Budget Deal Gives Boost to California Republicans", you know the Party has finally turned the the corner.
Senator Dennis Hollingsworth whose initial ascent gave hope to Republicans, that Republicans would behave like Republicans instead of accommodationists for bankrupt [literally] union legislative spending. The prior leader was woefully out of his depth. Let’s hope that he is the last of the ‘let’s get along crowd’ that has dramatically tarnished the Republican brand, hurt CRP fund raising and discouraged conservatives. 
Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee, who also removed his predecessor, due to the rapacious new taxes of last February, came advertised as a "green" Republican and probably a moderate. Instead he brought his caucus together for clear sighted financial restructuring.
Both Hollingsworth and Blakeslee can enjoy national rave reviews. See also today’s Flashreport of a WSJ Editorial.
The dems took a well deserved humbling defeat by getting out of the way by undoing a few of their ineffective "programs"
Let’s be sure to encourage each of our legislators to continue to restore sanity in California. A positive on-going campaign for budget reform, radically reduced spending, selling California state property, contracting out government services [ i went to the DMV yesterday] and finally quit skimming off the money from local governments.
This is the most important legislative victory in years. Voters will be looking for real reformers next year. We just begun the march.
Even Arnold might be trying to save his legacy.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am
When you put conservatives in to clean up the sandbox…..RINOS run for the country club!!!!
Good work!
July 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I think this “victory” will be very short-lived once middle class families hold Republicans accountable for jacking up the price of higher education, 35 kids crowding a classroom, and lots more homeless folks on the streets with less cops to take care of them.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:00 am
It was a common to have 35 to 40 kids in California classrooms during
the Baby Boom, as most longtime Californians remember.
That’s something Mr. Maviglio would know too…. IF he had grown up in
California, instead of New Jersey and New Hampshire, where he was a
state legislator and congressional aide before boarding the Good Ship
Gray Davis in 2000.
The Kids from those “crowded” California Baby Boom classrooms later
set records in the 1960s that still stand for SAT college exam scores.
So try again, Mr. M., …… this “Scary” school story just doesn’t work!