California supermajority

[Mav88]

Interesting experiment in the works in cali, the demos have a supermajority. I can't wait to see liberals now try and clean up their own mess with conservatives in their way. I saw on the news that they got the assembly too.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Democrats-gain-supermajority-in-Calif-Senate-4017740.php

this is great comedy, it's 'time to live within our means' ....and they gonna get new tax money without raising rates, lol- so much for living within their means, it lasted what? a couple hours?

However, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown quickly cautioned that he already has pledged to take any further tax hikes to voters, as he did with the temporary tax increases that voters approved on Tuesday. And Democrat leaders in both the Senate and Assembly downplayed the idea that they would seek to further ratchet up tax rates.

It is the first time since 1965 that Democrats controlled a Senate supermajority, and the only time since California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978, raising the legislative vote threshold to pass tax increases to two-thirds.

Democrats will control at least 27 seats in the 40-member Senate and are closing in on the two-thirds margin in the Assembly as well.

"It's time to start anew and to live within our means but at the same time invest in the cornerstone of our future and of our economy, and that's education," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said in a telephone interview.

He later told reporters that he favors "tax reform" to broaden California's tax base without further raising tax rates.


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