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SEE THE HEADLINES? SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK CALIFORNIA’S BUDGET. (WELL, THAT CAN BE FIXED!)
By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento
In the State Assembly, Republicans and Democrats came to agreement on the state’s budget.
Republican Governor Schwarzenegger supported the budget passed by the Assembly.
All the Democrats in the Senate agreed with the Republican Governor and the Republican Members of the Assembly.
But the two Republicans in the California Senate needed to fund the Government for the next year could not be found.
The Senate Pro Tem hinted that the Republicans would come on board for a price – it was just that the Republicans couldn’t agree on a price.
What they did agree upon was that the Republican “price” had little or nothing to do with the budget. They want other things in addition to the fiscal integrity demanded by and acceded to in the Assembly.
The State’s Republican Governor’s plea to his fellow party members went ignored.
Maybe it’s time for the Governor to approach the relevant Republican Assembly Member and indicate that a primary election challenge to recalcitrant Senators is in order – a challenge backed by the Governor financially as well as with his name.
That will at least tell us whether Republican stubbornness in the Senate is built on principle or greed.
Bill Cavala was Deputy Director of the Assembly Speaker’s Office of Member Services where he worked for over 30 years.
He attended undergraduate and graduate school in the 1960’s and received a doctorate in political science at UC Berkeley. He taught political science at UC Berkeley during the 1970's while he worked part-time for the State Assembly.
Cavala left teaching at UC Berkeley and went to work for Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in 1981 until his tenure as Speaker ended in 1995, and he has worked for his five successors as Speaker up to and including Speaker Fabian Nunez.
Mr. Cavala manages election campaigns for Democratic candidates.
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