June 15 budget will only pay lip service to state constitution, and may bear only a passing resemblance to final version.
What’s happening on the state budget this week — or, more accurately, not happening — is the latest chapter in a 15-year-long saga of manipulative Capitol politics.
Understanding why this charade exists requires turning the clock back to 2009, when a Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was Budgets then required two-thirds votes in the Legislature, which meant they needed support from at least a few GOP legislators. A Republican state senator, , refused to cast the decisive vote unless Democrats agreed to place a measure on the 2010 ballot that would overhaul California’s primary election system.
“Most Californians are neither far-left nor far-right, but in the middle,” Schwarzenegger said. “We will no longer punish candidates and elected officials for putting the people first, in front of partisan politics.”Democrats seethed about being forced to accept the top-two primary to get a budget deal and vowed never to let it happen again. With labor union allies, they immediately qualified another ballot measure, , which lowered the vote requirement for budgets to a simple majority.
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