 Adam Mendelsohn
Deputy Chief of Staff
for Communications
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8/7/2007 There's been a lot of interesting news coverage of the ongoing budget stalemate. One of the most notable is the Debra Saunders column in today's San Francisco Chronicle. The most salient point she makes is how messy this can all get if we don't have a budget before the Assembly comes back from its summer recess on August 20. Her column comes one day after Assembly Republican leader Mike Vilines' made the same point in the Sacramento Bee, when he said: “I just hope that we don't see it come backward. That's my fear.” Villines was talking about the chaos that can ensue if the Assembly decided to reconsider compromises it has already reached on the version of the budget it approved - with Republican votes - on July 20. And as Saunders points out in the next to last paragraph of her column, Villines is not the only one who's worried. “If another Senate Republican does not vote for the Assembly budget by Aug. 20, raising the total yes votes to 27, the whole deal could fall apart,” Saunders wrote. Then she quoted Lynda Gledhill of Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's office, who told her: "There's no doubt that the longer it goes on, the harder it is for Democrat members to vote for the budget, but we are committed to voting for this budget in its current form." As the Governor has said repeatedly, it's time to get the budget done. |
