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July 25, 2009 at 21:05:58

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The California budget did not have to be

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California Democrats blame the State's punish-the-poor budgets on our supermajority, tyranny-of-the-minority rule, requiring the legislature to approve any new revenues by a two-thirds vote. But, the Democrats had far more power this year, despite the two-thirds rule. And, for whatever reason, they threw it away.

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Earlier 2009 California State budget battles created a singular opportunity, for the Democrats, to discard Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest budget and send him their own, so as to negotiate from strength rather than weakness. They did not, but, as Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico explains, the July 2009 California State budget did not have to be.

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