Golden State Tarnished
Hold those pink slips! The California legislature has finally passed a budget in the same way that anxious people pass kidney stones – painfully. Now state offices can stay open, at least for another week or two.
I guess keeping the Senate in session around the clock for three days in a row finally did the trick. That sort of thing annoys staffers, who can’t go home until all the paperwork is done. There must have been more than a few mutinies plotted in the capitol corridors over the past few weeks.
Going forward, the legislature should plan on pulling a few more allnighters. Lock a bunch of antagonistic people in a room together and see who cracks. You have to figure one or two politicians would sign anything just to get away.
Of course nobody likes the new budget. It raises taxes, cuts spending on education and puts the state further into debt. In other words, it’s business as usual in California.
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