Well, it seems even Republicans want to get a vote on the tax extensions:<\/p>\n
The poll showed 61 percent of all voters surveyed said they were in favor of calling a special election, and 56 percent of Republican voters surveyed said they wanted that, too. However, most of the Republicans – 61 percent – said they would vote against the tax proposal.<\/p>\n
Among all voters, 58 percent said they would vote in favor of the tax extension if a special election were held today.<\/p>\n
The survey comes in the midst of tense negotiations at the Capitol, where Brown is working to persuade Republican legislators to allow a special election in June. Two Republicans in both the state Senate and Assembly would have to join all the Democrats in voting to hold the election.(SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can get the full poll details from Field here. Now, it doesn’t really surprise to see that Republicans would vote against the measure, but, if the Republicans in the Legislature think they are doing some grand favor for their party, and their voters, well, they are just way off base. It seems not everybody is as blindly ideological as Grover Norquist and Tony Strickland<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Quit the games, quit the naked partisanship, and let’s get this on the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, it seems even Republicans want to get a vote on the tax extensions:<\/p>\n
The poll showed 61 percent of all voters surveyed said they were in favor of calling a special election, and 56 percent of Republican voters surveyed said they wanted that, too. However, most of the Republicans – 61 percent – said they would vote against the tax proposal.<\/p>\n
Among all voters, 58 percent said they would vote in favor of the tax extension if a special election were held today.<\/p>\n
The survey comes in the midst of tense negotiations at the Capitol, where Brown is working to persuade Republican legislators to allow a special election in June. Two Republicans in both the state Senate and Assembly would have to join all the Democrats in voting to hold the election.(SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can get the full poll details from Field here. Now, it doesn’t really surprise to see that Republicans would vote against the measure, but, if the Republicans in the Legislature think they are doing some grand favor for their party, and their voters, well, they are just way off base. It seems not everybody is as blindly ideological as Grover Norquist and Tony Strickland<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Quit the games, quit the naked partisanship, and let’s get this on the ballot.<\/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-13266","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-3rY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","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=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}