MEMO TO GOP SENATORS

TO:  Sam Aanastad, Dick Ackerman, Roy Ashburn, Jim Battin, Dave Cogdill, Dave Cox, Jeff Denham, Bob Dutton, Tom Harmon, Dennis Hollingsworth, Abel Maldonado, Bob Margett, Tom McClintock, George Runner, Mark Wyland

FROM:  Jon Fleischman and the FR Team

RE:  The Immaturity of Don Perata

You fifteen are now officially martyrs for all California taxpayers.  Don Perata (pictured) clearly is acting about four years old with this tactic of ‘locking you in’ the Senate chambers throughout the night.

It’s actually quite unbelievable.

It is a demonstration of how far out of touch liberal Democrats truly are with the reason WHY you folks have not signed off on a budget.  They just don’t understand that the state government of California is too big and spends too much.  The idea of not spending more than you make is a foreign concept.  But then these are the people that see an increase of less than what they want as a spending cut.

Well, I cannot imagine being in your shoes.  But I would suspect at a certain point, this would start to quickly become less about a budget for the state, and more about pure and simple respect for fellow adults.  If Don Perata is going to literally act like some cross between a petulant child and a banana republic dictator, then I would make it clear that there is no way that you will negotiate further.

Your reasons for not voting for the Assembly-passed budget are sound.  But as you go longer and longer without sleep, it is more and more unlikely that any meangingful dialogue is going to take place about California public policy.

Anyways, we’re with you in solidarity, and please let us know if you can take deliveries, the address, and we can ask our readers to start to send you packages.  Maybe we can send a live pig over to Don Perata, for all of the lard in this status-quo budget.

Hang in there!!

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.