Just one of many actions around the state on the budget standoff. This one targets Republican State Senator Jeff Denham, who ran as a moderate in his Democratic leaning district.
SEIU 521
MONTEREY COUNTY COMMUNITY MEMBERS, NONPROFIT PROVIDERS AND WORKERS WILL HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE DEMANDING SENATOR JEFF DENHAM END STATE BUDGET STALEMATE
SALINAS, Calif. - Monterey County community members, nonprofit providers and workers will hold a press conference outside State Senator Jeff Denham's office at 369 Main Street, #208 on Monday, Aug. 13, at 12:00 noon.
The press conference will highlight the devastating impacts the state budget impasse is having on community social service and healthcare providers, educators, children, students, and seniors in Monterey County.
So are you scratching your head over my State Senator, Lou Correa, being locked out of his own office? Well, there's plenty of outrage from left to right in Orange County on this episode. And since I don't want to say too much more about this, I'll let you read what everyone else here in OC has to say about this nasty incident after the flip...
"This morning, I kissed my children goodbye, dropped my daughter off at school, got on a plane, got here, found out I was locked out of my office," said [Senator Lou] Correa, D-Santa Ana.
This is what Lou told Brian Joseph at The OC Register when asked about the lockout. Yes, you heard me right- Lou Correa, along with Sens. Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-Chino) and Ron Calderon (D-Montebello), were locked out of their own offices. And why? Because Don Perata was being a brat.
Follow me after the flip for more on this nonsense...
As most of you know by know, there is a lot of talk about moving the California Presidential Primary to February 5. What is forgotten in the news is that state and local primaries are typically held in conjunction. For example, when the 2000 presidential primary was held in March, primaries for state and local offices were held the same day (the 2002 state primary was also held in March).
while i'm aware that CA's bipartisan incumbant gerrymandered districts make swinging much of anything difficult to say the least, and while getting to that magic number would not guarantee that said democrats actually voted to do such a thing, i noticed that the CA democrats would need only 5 assembly seats and 2 senate seats to override the governor's veto, pass a budget, or raise taxes.
while i'm really hoping that we can just get angelides in the statehouse outright this election cycle, getting to that magic 2/3 number would make the whole budgetary process a hell of a lot simpler, and bypass the yearly headache of begging republican budget votes with pork barrel party favors and pledges to go into debt w/ bonds rather than just fund government like responsible adults.
so my question to the house is this: is there any hope of taking some of those state seats, or is it locked up and our hopes of passing budgets in some semblance of sanity impossible until the next redistricting? in a big dem year like '06, can we squeeze some wins out where nobody's looking?
