Update: And now it is done, the package has now passed
The reworked, gimmicked-up budget appears set for the Governor’s desk, after the Assembly passed the bill cutting the Redevelopment agencies. But John Myers tweeted a rousing finale on those redevelopment arguments:
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That looks 2 be it. Legislature, mostly but not all on Dem votes, approves #cabudget bills on time & off they go 2 Guv.
36 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply#Redevelopment nix bills pass Assembly. Running 2 rework NPR national story & do KQED work.. #cabudget
42 minutes agoFurutani & Wagner go face 2 face. Wow..everyone rushes in. #cabudget Photo: http://ow.ly/i/d07r
1 hour ago#Redevelopment debate in Assembly turns volatile. Wagner (R) seems 2 makes some sort of Mafia reference..Gatto (D) & Furutani (D) explode
1 hour agoKQED_CapNotes John Myers, KQED
Hard 2 see full #cabudget not going 2 Guv at this point. Assembly Dems can afford more defections on #redevelopment nix. But…
1 hour ago
Nothing like a good mafia reference to get everybody’s blood boiling, but it looks like everybody settled down and remebered that they are aging, out of shape dudes that weren’t going to look anything but foolish. Incidentally, my money would have been on Gatto in that little dispute. He’s young and agile.
I imagine that Brown is going to let the bills sit on his desk as he tries to play Houdini and cobble something together to get the budget he really wants.
Even though I find people like Sen. Bob Huff repulsive for his anti-gay views, but when private industry decides to go John Gault and fires their employees due to the burden of our state’s government, we lose revenue.
How about getting BOE Member Runner and his wife Sen.Runner’s idea about providing a penalty amnesty where people can pay off their back taxes w/o penalties for the next year to help us get some revenue.
I honestly do see a need for public services, but the goal is to prevent people from going Gault.
However I did call my State Senator to maybe propose BOE Member Runner’s idea of a state tax penalty amnesty period where people can pay their back taxes without penalties to help get our state some extra revenue.
I know our legislators want to get paid, but less Schwarzenegger styled solutions for a change.
I find it funny that Wagner makes a comment about a mafia shakedown and all the Italian Americans get bent out of shape, but when Rod Wright compares the bill to a “South Central bullit in the head” shake down, the African Americans in the chamber said nothing.