Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Jun 30, 2009 Comments Off on GOP Legislators: Stand Firm And Don’t “Kick The Can” — Your State Is Counting On You
Today is the last day of the 2008-2009 fiscal year, and it is
the final opportunity for the State Legislature to place on the
Governor’s desk a comprehensive fix to next fiscal year’s
way-out-out-whack budget before we are actually IN that fiscal
year. By "comprehensive fix" — I mean a package of cuts and
reforms that ensures that state government will be able to make it
all of the way to June 30, 2010 without having yet another "fiscal
crisis" where we are back at the cliff, again.
Governor Schwarzenegger has been 100% on message since the May
19th Special Election — we need a complete fix for the budget
situation — one that does so taking into account that the voters
overwhelmingly rejected tax increases to do so.
Legislative Democrats, unbelievably Sunday (in the Assembly) and
yesterday (in the Senate) rammed through billions of dollars in
illegal majority-vote tax increases for what appears to be the sole
purpose of sticking the legislative "middle finger" up at
California voters — especially since the Governor has and continues
to make it clear that any legislation that hits his desk with… Read More