Interesting shift of things as California State Controller John Chiang determined that the Legislature did not reach the Prop 25 threshold and therefore all Legislators don’t get paid – as they didn’t have a “balanced budget.” The reality is that this is new territory as the majority party can pretty much do what they want – though they have to “balance” the budget and that requires arguably some reductions and changes that they may not be interested in making. In the past, there has always been a partisan argument and defense (they won't let us do it!!). However, with Prop 25 they can’t “blame” it on the Republicans as their vote is NOT required and frankly at this point they appear to be somewhat irrelevant.
So bottomline, this looks like it is going to have to be a deal between the Governor and the Democratic party. Meanwhile the Dems and the unions aren’t all that interested in a tax vote (not surprisingly), as all the numbers say it loses and the unions are saying they don’t want to pay for a losing ballot issue. Probably most interesting to me is that with the action of Chiang this really goes back to a “do-over” proposition AND my guess is that no one expected that and therefore it will take several weeks at best to begin to get something together to propose and produce as a California budget. Regardless of the temperature, I am sure it will be a “hot” summer in Sacramento.
But then I am an uninformed, speculating school superintendent. What do you think is going to happen?
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