Who care about this whole drama? The election is really a fight between public employee and tax payer. In a budget crisis, if you can’t print money (or in US government’s case, you can’t print money fast enough), it is either a reduced pay/benefit/pension for public employee or to increase tax. I see no other way out of it.
All other things are just noises, ignore them.
[quote=enron_by_the_sea]So let us get this discussion back to something substantive.
Imagine this scenario in November 2010
[1] Prop 25 passes allowing 50% vote for passage of budget – but as it is alleged, it contains a backdoor for tax hikes disguised as fees.
and/or
[2] Dems pick up 3 seats in state assembly and 2 seat in state senate (This is easy because Abel Maldonado’s seat is open). This gives them 2/3 vote in house and senate to do whatever they want.
[3] People are screaming pass the budget, so it gets passed with increased taxes or fees depending on [1] or [2]
