Gov. Jerry Brown pushes tax vote on GOP turf

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

With budget talks at a standstill, Gov. Jerry Brown spent the weekend in Southern California applying pressure to Republicans in the Legislature who oppose his plan to eliminate the deficit by extending higher tax rates.

Brown took his message - that a failure to act will have dire consequences for public safety and other issues dear to voters - to a pair of public events on the turf of two important Republican state senators, the Senate Republican Leader Bob Dutton of Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino County) and Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach (Orange County).

Harman was one of only a few GOP members to personally negotiate with the governor on a budget compromise before the talks broke down last month.

Throughout the weekend, local Republican officials stood with Brown as he made his case for an election on continuing current tax rates in order to close the remainder of California's $15.4 billion deficit. Even some who are opposed to the idea of continuing the taxes - along with other parts of the governor's budget plan - said they wanted the opportunity to vote.

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[WheelWalker]

1. Jerry walks the walk.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. But doesn't he know that it's lazy poor people and unions

that have ruined our country? Barack Obama is going to be very disappointed with him.

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[tclambert]

5. Those lazy poor people are also diabolically clever.

Remember how they tricked mortgage companies into pushing subprime mortgages, and tricked giant investment banks into bundling those mortgages into mortgage backed securities that became toxic investments, and tricked AIG into offering derivatives that amounted to insurance policies on those toxic assets, and the lazy poor people's scheme almost succeeded in breaking our glorious financial system? Luckily, the courage and energetic action of George W. Bush bailed out the unfortunate victims of these nefarious poor people, and saved the Wall Street Bankers and other rich innocent dupes of the evil poor. Why, there was even talk of not paying the rich their bonuses! Luckily, Republicans stood up for the sanctity of contracts (except, of course, contracts negotiated with unions), and the rich corporate executives got every penny of their hard-earned multi-million dollar bonuses. Yay! Capitalism wins again.

[zalinda]

3. This is a leader. n/t

[madokie]

6. Could we maybe steal him away from california?

You know for something like eight years as our President

[No Elephants]

7. We had our chance. Apparently, we preferred Bubba, even with Flowers.

[harmonicon]

8. When Bubba was president...

I was getting paid more with a highschool diploma than I was making with a master's degree in 2006. ... and there were many such jobs for the taking.