Just days after Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the state budget, lawmakers in California took another hit Tuesday when Controller John Chiang concluded that they will lose their pay.
The controller’s decision means that each of the state’s 120 legislators will permanently lose about $400 a day until they pass a balanced spending plan.
The controller’s decision today sets a dangerous precedent,” said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.
Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles said,
“California has officially degenerated into a banana republic, with one branch of government withholding the pay of another. I wonder if the controller plans on withholding the pay of judges if he disagrees with one of their decisions,”
And Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, said the controller has “precipitated a constitutional crisis, one where the balance of powers in our constitutional form of government has shifted considerably, and the separation between the legislative and the executive branches of state government has been breached.”
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Of course the bums complain because the idiot people want them to do their job.
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