
Maldonado Names The Price of His Vote
Capitol Alert just posted an article about Sen. Abel Maldonado naming the price of buying his vote for the largest tax increase in state history:
A blanket primary in which the top two vote-getters make the general election. Denial of per diem to legislators if they don’t pass a budget on time. A ban on legislative per diem and pay increases in budget deficit years. Removing unspecified pork from the budget package.
Gosh, can Maldonado’s litany be any more transparently self-serving?
Abel wants to run statewide in 2010, and knows that voting for a $14 billion tax hike makes him a dead-candidate-on-a-stick in a closed GOP primary. Apparently, he believes he’d fare better as a tax-hiker in a blanket primary — although I think he’d be just slightly-less dead meat even in that set-up.
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