That is a revolutionary idea in an era when California legislators rarely pass balanced budgets by the June 15 deadline. It is also popular with voters, who overwhelmingly approved Prop 25.
The law, Proposition 25, only worked as voters had intended for one budget season.
If legislators didn't pass a balanced budget by their June 15 constitutional deadline, they'd be docked all pay and expense money until they did their job.
Prop. 25 itself didn't require a budget to be balanced. But a 2004 measure, Prop. 58, did. It forbade the Legislature to pass — or the governor to sign — an unbalanced budget.
Now there has been a bait and switch — the switch ordered by a judge
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown
Appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge.
Now We all know Why
Politicians Cant be Punished not in the Money Department
Not by the Laws they make!
And when your on your way Up or Down in the Game of Politics get a Judge
to help out your fellow Politicians!
