As long as we are looking at streamlining our state government and blowing up the boxes in Sacramento, I think we should take a serious look at the office of the Governor.<\/p>\n
For the last six years, the Governor has been unable to propose a balanced budget. Since he took office and reversed Gray Davis’s Vehicle License Fee increase, Schwarzenegger has used every possible trick to paper over the state’s ever increasing deficit. <\/p>\n
From issuing $15 billion in “deficit reduction” bonds, to borrowing $9 billion from the schools, Schwarzenegger has systematically pushed through budgets through that have raided every possible funding source, while also pushing initiatives that have systematically tied the state budget up in constitutional knots, making us unable to respond to the current crisis.<\/p>\n
If there is any single who is responsible for the near-bankruptcy of our state, it is the Governor. <\/p>\n
So I think the Legislature should take a serious look at the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent on the Governor’s office. Are these crazy schemes really worth the money we have been spending? Or would we be better off with a part-time Governor, and a much smaller Gubernatorial staff? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As long as we are looking at streamlining our state government and blowing up the boxes in Sacramento, I think we should take a serious look at the office of the Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":826,"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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2mo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","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\/826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}