{"id":14433,"date":"2012-06-28T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:16:42","slug":"the-governors-blue-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/28\/the-governors-blue-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Governor&#8217;s Blue Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Governor signs budget deal, but gets out the blue pencil.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, being of the same party as the Legislative majority, wouldn&#8217;t be expected to axe a lot of the line items. &nbsp;However, out it came for $195 million worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown used his line-item veto authority to strike $128.9 million in spending from the $91.3 billion general fund state budget he signed, his office reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Brown vetoed another $66.8 million in spending from special funds and federal funds, for a total veto amount of $195.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic governor&#8217;s cuts affect child care and preschool for low-income children and Cal Grant scholarship aid at private schools, two areas that Brown wanted lawmakers to slash deeper than they did. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/06\/gov-jerry-brown-vetoes-195-million-from-final-ca-budget.html\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CalGrants got a big cut, with a 5% cut off the top. Higher education is getting more and more out of reach of the middle class. So, hooray for that extra cut, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Governor signs budget deal, but gets out the blue pencil.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Governor, being of the same party as the Legislative majority, wouldn&#8217;t be expected to axe a lot of the line items. &nbsp;However, out it came for $195 million worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown used his line-item veto authority to strike $128.9 million in spending from the $91.3 billion general fund state budget he signed, his office reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Brown vetoed another $66.8 million in spending from special funds and federal funds, for a total veto amount of $195.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic governor&#8217;s cuts affect child care and preschool for low-income children and Cal Grant scholarship aid at private schools, two areas that Brown wanted lawmakers to slash deeper than they did. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/06\/gov-jerry-brown-vetoes-195-million-from-final-ca-budget.html\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CalGrants got a big cut, with a 5% cut off the top. Higher education is getting more and more out of reach of the middle class. So, hooray for that extra cut, huh?<\/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-14433","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-3KN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433","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=14433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}