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Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman acknowledged Tuesday that much of the deficit left behind when Jerry Brown vacated the Governor's Office was due to Proposition 13, but she said his reaction to the tax-limiting voter initiative should have been to cut spending.
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Workers will be standing up for state services and California, Local 1000 president Yvonne Walker said in a news release. “We live here, we work here; not only do we provide the valuable services Californians need, we’re the human face of services Californians rely upon.”
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Counties that provide most of the state's revenue streams like income and sales taxes reliably elect Democrats, who traditionally want to take more of your money. And counties whose Republican representatives argue most vociferously for social services cuts draw, per capita, the most state aid.
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So we asked Terry Halleck, president and chief executive of The Golden 1. She said that the Sacramento-based cooperative is "monitoring" budget developments, but stopped short of saying that it will loan money to state workers if their pay is temporarily withheld.
And until the state does something definitive, the company won't have anything else to say, Halleck told The State Worker.
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Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Monday that they plan to let lawmakers go home and work in their districts, but be ready to return on short notice.
"Until we have a budget, I expect members to work – the question is where," Steinberg said.
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