Well, no budget deal yet, as redevelopment seems to be the stumbling block right now:<\/p>\n
The hump day of the week ended just before 9:30 p.m., when it apparently became clear that the last — and most talked about — bill that was supposed to pass the Assembly in round #1 would not: the governor’s push to abolish redevelopment agencies and shift the money to other programs. …<\/p>\n
Both houses will reconvene at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, whereupon we’re told they’ll start back at it. Of course, none of this resolves the larger, lingering problem: GOP refusal to go along with placing a tax extension on a June special statewide ballot. That $11 billion extension remains the key to the governor’s entire deficit reduction package.<\/p>\n
And some of the tax’s supporters — notably those who support programs that would be cut even further without the tax revenues — are getting worried about even having that election. A private poll done for one education group found that while voters, on first blush, would go along with the tax extension… more were persuaded by a “politicians should cut wasteful spending” argument against the taxes than were a “even deeper cuts” argument for the taxes. (John Myers<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let’s be clear, getting the measures on the ballot is really only the first step. We all know that “waste” is just right-wing code for “we don’t have any ideas, so we’ll just say government is inefficient.” However, it is effective, that much is shown on pretty much any poll.<\/p>\n
But for now, the Governor’s efforts are on getting something on the ballot. This budget is truly horrifying, the consequences of not passing revenue would be disastrous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, no budget deal yet, as redevelopment seems to be the stumbling block right now:<\/p>\n
The hump day of the week ended just before 9:30 p.m., when it apparently became clear that the last — and most talked about — bill that was supposed to pass the Assembly in round #1 would not: the governor’s push to abolish redevelopment agencies and shift the money to other programs. …<\/p>\n
Both houses will reconvene at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, whereupon we’re told they’ll start back at it. Of course, none of this resolves the larger, lingering problem: GOP refusal to go along with placing a tax extension on a June special statewide ballot. That $11 billion extension remains the key to the governor’s entire deficit reduction package.<\/p>\n
And some of the tax’s supporters — notably those who support programs that would be cut even further without the tax revenues — are getting worried about even having that election. A private poll done for one education group found that while voters, on first blush, would go along with the tax extension… more were persuaded by a “politicians should cut wasteful spending” argument against the taxes than were a “even deeper cuts” argument for the taxes. (John Myers<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let’s be clear, getting the measures on the ballot is really only the first step. We all know that “waste” is just right-wing code for “we don’t have any ideas, so we’ll just say government is inefficient.” However, it is effective, that much is shown on pretty much any poll.<\/p>\n
But for now, the Governor’s efforts are on getting something on the ballot. This budget is truly horrifying, the consequences of not passing revenue would be disastrous.<\/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-13271","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-3s3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","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=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}