It has been my firm belief since the announcement from his Imperial Majesty Senate President Don Perata that he was so opposed to the tax-relief package negotiated by Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines that he would not even bring it up for a vote in the Senate (let alone work to get it passed out of that uber-liberal body) that the budget passed out of the Assembly was DOA in the Senate. That Assembly Budget while still bloated and largely a product of the status quo that Democrats have created after many decades of majority control in the legislature, GOP negotiators made some important strides in that document.
Still, as Assembly Republican Caucus Chairman Bob Huff points out in an exclusive column today, that tax relief package was a "lynch pin" to the budget garnering enough votes to even get out of the Assembly at all. Huff says, "Without the tax cuts, the Senators will not be dealing with the budget package approved by 9 Republican Assemblymembers."
Huff, of course, was the highest ranking Assembly Republican to vote against the budget in the Assembly. He explains his simple rationale thusly: "I voted against the budget, for one simple reason: the budget spends more than the state is planning to collect. You and I shouldn’t spend more than we have and neither should the state."
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July 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Dumb Reps conned again?
July 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am
And now you have doubled your comments.
I’d ask a question, but I know better than that.