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From the Imperial Valley Press: "More than 50 local state employees picketed outside the Department of Motor Vehicle office in El Centro on Tuesday over the temporary push by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration to impose the federal minimum wage on all state workers."
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LA Times opinion says, "Reducing the pay of state workers to the federal hourly minimum wage of $7.25 until a state budget is adopted will help close California's $19.1-billion budget shortfall. Except that it won't."
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After being approved in secret, the tax breaks are being challenged in a very California manner. Leaders of the California Teachers Association, fearing more cuts to schools, are offering to reshape tax law, sponsoring Proposition 24, an initiative this November to overturn the tax cuts.
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The governor says he's opposed to new taxes, but he once advocated a severance tax and is notoriously prone to switching positions.
A new oil tax is probably not in the cards this year. But it will remain a major issue, especially if Brown – whose family was once in the oil-importing business – wins another lease on the governor's office this year.
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Assembly Republican leader Martin Garrick of Solana Beach waived the per diem, as did Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville; and Senate Democrats Leland Yee of San Francisco and Lou Correa of Santa Ana, records show.
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