{"id":13567,"date":"2011-06-13T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:40:01","slug":"brown-gives-state-a-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/13\/brown-gives-state-a-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Gives State a Status Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SnoAyITHWA\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>In January, Gov. Brown released a video highlighting his plan for the budget. &nbsp;You know all about that, and the video update to the right alludes to that plan. &nbsp;Tax extensions on the ballot and big cuts. &nbsp;That&#8217;s the long and short of it. &nbsp;The big cuts were made, but there has been no extensions, by vote or any other manner. &nbsp;And those taxes expire in 17 days from today at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>So, today Gov. Brown gives the people a status update on where he is in that process, and, again, we know where it is. &nbsp;We are still waiting on 2 GOP votes in either house to materialize for either a vote or the actual tax extensions. &nbsp;At this point, Brown has made major moves on ancillary (at best) issues, but still can&#8217;t lure the votes across.<\/p>\n<p>Punishment for defying orthodoxy in California&#8217;s GOP is extreme and swift. &nbsp;There will be major challenges, especially with so many of the sitting legislators drawn together for 2012. &nbsp;This is the sort of the thing Republican primaries are made of. &nbsp;Whether a Republican candidate who votes for some sort of extensions can make it through into the Top 2 system is yet to be seen. &nbsp;And frankly, they aren&#8217;t particularly keen to be the guinea pigs.<\/p>\n<p>But somebody is going to be the guinea pig. Taking that step past the brink is never easy, but that&#8217;s why it is called leadership. &nbsp;If it were easy, we could just have some action movie star like Arnold&#8230; wait&#8230; we&#8217;ve tried that already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SnoAyITHWA\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>In January, Gov. Brown released a video highlighting his plan for the budget. &nbsp;You know all about that, and the video update to the right alludes to that plan. &nbsp;Tax extensions on the ballot and big cuts. &nbsp;That&#8217;s the long and short of it. &nbsp;The big cuts were made, but there has been no extensions, by vote or any other manner. &nbsp;And those taxes expire in 17 days from today at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>So, today Gov. Brown gives the people a status update on where he is in that process, and, again, we know where it is. &nbsp;We are still waiting on 2 GOP votes in either house to materialize for either a vote or the actual tax extensions. &nbsp;At this point, Brown has made major moves on ancillary (at best) issues, but still can&#8217;t lure the votes across.<\/p>\n<p>Punishment for defying orthodoxy in California&#8217;s GOP is extreme and swift. &nbsp;There will be major challenges, especially with so many of the sitting legislators drawn together for 2012. &nbsp;This is the sort of the thing Republican primaries are made of. &nbsp;Whether a Republican candidate who votes for some sort of extensions can make it through into the Top 2 system is yet to be seen. &nbsp;And frankly, they aren&#8217;t particularly keen to be the guinea pigs.<\/p>\n<p>But somebody is going to be the guinea pig. Taking that step past the brink is never easy, but that&#8217;s why it is called leadership. &nbsp;If it were easy, we could just have some action movie star like Arnold&#8230; wait&#8230; we&#8217;ve tried that already&#8230;<\/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":[117,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-204"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3wP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567","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=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}