From Fresno Bee:
Sen. Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of the California Senate, says he’s still studying Assembly Bill 2451, Speaker John A. Perez’s multimillion-dollar benefit giveaway to powerful police and firefighter unions.
Steinberg is late to the issue. The bill, which The Sacramento Bee exposed last week, is the most irresponsible measure of the current session. But it awaits final action on the Senate floor. Despite its high cost, there still are no plans to hold a hearing on this bill in a Senate fiscal committee.
Why not?
A spokesman for Perez says amendments are being prepared to soften its financial impact. Yet for now, it remains a fiscal train wreck. Lobbyists for cities and counties say there are no changes contemplated that could eliminate the considerable economic hardships this bill places on struggling local governments.
Let them keep on with exactly what they are doing. Soon there will be
no alternative but for the state and cities to declare bankruptcy. Perhaps
that is what it will take for the people here to realize that you can not
run the cities and states like a fairy tale of do gooder nonsense.
The Perez name seems to float to the surface on every scumbag scam that comes to light in California. “It’s past time for him to go to JAIL or PRISON”
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