Thursday, February 19, 2009
California lives!
Thanks to the ambition of a Republican broccoli farmer from the Inland Empire (how Republican!)named Abel "Banana Nose" Maldonado.
Finally, in the witching hours of Thursday morning, lawmakers caved to some of the demands of State Senator Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, a Republican who wanted state constitutional amendments banning legislative pay increases during deficit years, and the elimination of a 12-cent increase in gasoline taxes from the plan.So being able to run his tractors for a little less money and fulfill his ambition to be Comptroller, Banana Nose turned his back on noted Anarchist Grover Norquisling and his No Tax Taliban. And California lives another day, with a little less than before for the people who have almost nothing now.
Mr. Maldonado also won legislative approval for an amendment that would make California political primaries open and nonpartisan, a measure that many Democrats resisted to the bitter end.
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