California GOP sabotages state

[yakbladder]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap17-2009sep17,0,1524376.column

Hollingsworth contended that "the Democratic leadership did not uphold their previous budget agreements."

But the minority leader wasn't available to discuss exactly which agreements he thought had been broken, and his staff said it didn't know.

and...

This is what happened, according to Democrats, and Republicans aren't exactly denying it: The Senate GOP blocked more than 20 bills requiring a two-thirds vote because Democrats wouldn't cave on three unrelated demands.

One demand was the elimination of a program, called ReadyReturn, that allows low-income earners to have the state do their tax returns free. Intuit wants these people to buy its software product, TurboTax. Since 2005, the company has donated to the political coffers of three-fourths of the Senate, The Times reported Tuesday.

Another GOP insistence was that a big corporate tax break enacted as part of the February budget deal be tweaked to help more businesses, especially Chevron.

The third demand was that Republican Sen. Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield be made the lead author of a bill to provide $10,000 tax credits for people buying newly constructed homes. In February, after he agreed to vote for a tax increase, Democrats gave Ashburn a bill setting aside $100 million for such credits. But because of state accounting rules, only $70 million has been claimed. The new bill would allow the other $30 million to be used for tax credits.

Here, I suspect, we get into pure partisanship as well as pride. The author of the new housing credit bill is Democratic Assemblywoman Anna Caballero of Salinas, who intends next year to run for an open Senate seat now held by a Republican. The GOP would rather that she not be the successful sponsor of a popular bill.

The housing credit bill was one of the Republican victims.

Other casualties included bills to keep dozens of domestic-violence shelters from closing, to help cities and counties borrow while the state raids their treasuries, to distribute federal money to counties for swine flu treatment, and to implement a new hospital fee that would qualify the state for $2 billion in federal money.

 

[maxiep]

My God you are partisan. Try identifying with an ideology rather than a party.

 

[BrianFromWA]

The author of the new housing credit bill is Democratic Assemblywoman Anna Caballero of Salinas, who intends next year to run for an open Senate seat now held by a Republican. The GOP would rather that she not be the successful sponsor of a popular bill.

The housing credit bill was one of the Republican victims.

This, if true, is B.S. It doesn't matter what side you're on. What kind of things are in place to ensure these things don't happen? Or is the LA Times the watchdog for this sort of thing? Is it possible that the LA Times' opinion of the above quote is wrong?

If the bill's that good for the state, and that popular, why didn't a republican sponsor it?

 

[Eastoff]

My God you are partisan. Try identifying with an ideology rather than a party.

http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147306

 

[maxiep]

http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147306

I didn't see anything in that thread that showed me I was wrong about Yakbladder.

 

[yakbladder]

Well other than the fact you know nothing about me, my core beliefs, or what I think about each party. In other words, you know nothing! But not a big shocker there...

 

[maxiep]

Well other than the fact you know nothing about me, my core beliefs, or what I think about each party. In other words, you know nothing! But not a big shocker there...

I know in your posts here, you're a shameless supporter of the Democrats, even when they're wrong. You also say nothing nice about the other side of the aisle. Basically, you're a mirror image of Sean Hannity.