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Now Attorney General Jerry Brown has concluded that Assembly Democrats' proposal to borrow $8 billion to $9 billion to help plug the state's budget gap could be deemed illegal under that ballot measure.

"We conclude that a court could reasonably determine that the proposed transaction violates Proposition 58," the attorney general's office wrote in a letter to Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary.
  
Giving Drew $8.7 million just because it's gotten the money in the past, or just because a former legislative colleague lobbied for it, doesn't wash in an era of multibillion-dollar deficits, wholesale slaughter of basic services, and wrangling over whether taxes should be raised, as Leno and other Democrats have advocated.   
The governor's no-new-taxes budget and Republican reforms are the best approach to solving California's short- and long-term budget challenges. Taxpayers and the unemployed are counting on Democrats to buck the status quo and the public employee unions, and join with Republicans in passing a budget that doesn't protect government jobs at the expense of hard-working and job-seeking Californians.   
  
In a key test vote today, the Senate agreed to uphold Republican objections to a bill that included $24 billion in aid to the states, including the money for California. It's part of a broader $140 billion package that would extend unemployment benefits and some tax breaks to businesses.   
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