{"id":12419,"date":"2010-09-01T02:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T02:34:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-01T02:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T02:34:27","slug":"drill-as-in-a-drill-to-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/01\/drill-as-in-a-drill-to-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill, As In A Drill to the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature went through something of a budget vote drill today, with both the GOP and Democratic budget plans not really approaching the necessary 2\/3 votes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both fell well short of the required two-thirds majority (54 votes in the Assembly and 27 in the Senate), although Assembly and Senate leaders left the voting rolls open.<\/p>\n<p>In the Assembly, initial tallies had the Democratic plan six votes short and the GOP approach 29 votes short.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, the GOP plan was 15 votes short and the Democratic proposal six votes short.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/budget-plans-fall-short.html#ixzz0yEVjLDSW\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That being said, this was a good day. &nbsp;It gets legislators on record and shows the state just how ridiculous our 2\/3 budget process really is.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, look at that, there is a majority vote budget measure on the ballot. How convenient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature went through something of a budget vote drill today, with both the GOP and Democratic budget plans not really approaching the necessary 2\/3 votes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both fell well short of the required two-thirds majority (54 votes in the Assembly and 27 in the Senate), although Assembly and Senate leaders left the voting rolls open.<\/p>\n<p>In the Assembly, initial tallies had the Democratic plan six votes short and the GOP approach 29 votes short.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, the GOP plan was 15 votes short and the Democratic proposal six votes short.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/budget-plans-fall-short.html#ixzz0yEVjLDSW\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That being said, this was a good day. &nbsp;It gets legislators on record and shows the state just how ridiculous our 2\/3 budget process really is.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, look at that, there is a majority vote budget measure on the ballot. How convenient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}