SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders began a new week of budget negotiations Monday with optimism, even as they admitted little progress on how to address the remainder of California’s $26.6 billion shortfall.
Brown, a Democrat, has missed his self-imposed deadline to put a special election on tax extensions before voters, and lawmakers say it’s increasingly unlikely that any such measure could be placed on the ballot June 7, when several municipalities hold local elections. CBS News
Jerry Brown made the same mistake Gov Walker did in Wisconsin, going after the low hanging fruit for his funders before tackling the big problem. In Brown's case he gave away public pension goodies, rather suddenly, just when the budget pressure was leading to results. So Brown sets the whole progress back a month, we are not likely to get the tax extension ballot measure.
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