Hancock: Defeat spending cap, roll back 2/3 vote
For someone who’s sleeping better now that she’s no longer locked down with 38 colleagues inside the State Capitol, state Sen. Loni Hancock still doesn’t sound terribly happy about the budget deal.
That’s because she believes the deal clearly illustrates the fault lines along which California’s government has cracked, Hancock, D-Berkeley, told about two dozen members of the Alameda County Democratic Lawyers Club this afternoon over plates of mole and carnitas at Cocina Poblana in Oakland’s Jack London Square.
Those cracks should be read as a road map for government reform, said the chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee: In the short term, abolition of the requirement that budgets be approved by 2/3 votes of the Legislature, and substantial reform of California’s out-of-control ballot initiative process.
The budget process “was a very demoralizing and disheartening process, and it cannot be repeated again and again,” she said.
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Posted on Friday, February 27th, 2009
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