Around 6am this morning, the California legislature adjourned from its regular session.  Needless to say, the Democrats who control the majority in both legislative chambers, near as I can tell, produced nothing helpful in their final legislative push.  With the state’s economy in the doldrums, so many opportunities to pass legislation to stimulate the economic through tax or regulatory relief were rejected (Republicans authored these ideas, to have them dismissed by the liberal ideologues who see taxing and regulating the people they represent as some sort of dogmatic quest).  On the contrary — we saw notable bills such as ones to ease incarceration for prisoners, and more regulations on the energy sector that will result in higher consumer costs.  Oh yes, and the water crisis remains a crisis as the Sierra Club completely trumped common sense, with the Democrats amazingly producing a water bill that includes no new water storage… (Kind of like saying you fixed the leak on a boat by replacing the canopy.)

We’ll have more coverage on the end of the session, and our team is already working on our annual "Top Twenty Bills To Veto" feature — which this year will be co-authored by State Senator Mimi Walters, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and yours truly.  If you have some suggestions of particularly onerous bills that are now on their way to the Governor, you can drop us a line here.

Let me take a moment to praise the leadership of the Dennis Hollingsworth and Sam Blakeslee, who valiantly led efforts of Republicans in that face of a very tough liberal majority.

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