{"id":9502,"date":"2012-06-28T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:59:50","slug":"senate-republican-leader-bob-huff-on-passage-of-the-democrat-majority-vote-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=9502","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff on Passage of the Democrat Majority Vote Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Sen. Bob Huff at 2009 SM 4th of July parade<\/p><\/div>\n

Press Release posted 6\/28\/12 –<\/em> Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) issued the following statement today in response to the passage of the Democrat majority vote budget<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that the majority party squandered its opportunity to provide a balanced, honest and transparent budget that Californians could be proud of.\u00a0 There is no doubt about it. Democrats own this budget. Both Republicans and the public have been denied any real opportunity to review dozens of pieces of critical legislation prior to their being voted on.<\/p>\n

This irresponsible budget grows state spending by more than $10 billion and relies upon the assumption that voters will approve a massive $47 billion tax hike. Democrats ignore the simple truth that voters have rejected the past eight tax increase proposals placed before them. While this budget should be a reflection of the state\u2019s priorities, it threatens $6 billion of education cuts and lacks any of the meaningful reforms the people of California rightfully want.\u00a0 There\u2019s no pension reform, no job-creating regulatory reform and nothing that increases government efficiency.<\/p>\n

The majority party is taking a huge gamble with this budgetary house of cards.\u00a0 They refuse to see that there are limits to what this stagnant economy, weighted down by high taxes and overregulation, can possibly generate in the way of revenue.\u00a0 Considering their track record on spending and revenue projections, they\u2019ll be lucky if this sham budget doesn\u2019t fall apart before the November election.\u00a0 And if they are wrong, yet again, it will be \u2013 by their design \u2013 our schools, our students and our teachers who suffer the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release posted 6\/28\/12 – Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) issued the following statement today in response to the passage of the Democrat majority vote budget: \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that the majority party squandered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}