No tickee, no laundry

No tickee, no laundry All's well that ends well

“ [California] law requires legislators to enact the budget and send it to the governor by June 15 every year or be docked $400 a day until they get it right. ”

So when the democrat dominated legislature submitted a cobbled together piece of crap that looked like it was written that morning on the school bus,   Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it.  Not to worry, the state controller John Chiang is a Democrat; he'd never dock their pay.  Wrong.  Chaing's math showed a budget that minimally spent $1.85 billion more than it would collect. Not even close.  "No tickee, no laundry" said detective Chaing,  Democrats were surprised; then outraged. “” “John Chiang just wants to sit there and beat up on kids,” cried Assemblyman Mike Gatto of Los Angeles. “I now have to explain to my wife and daughter why we won’t be able to pay our bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense.” The leader of the Democratic majority in the Assembly agreed, and promised to employ the great American solution: a lawsuit. “Chiang is now focused all the attention on himself so he’ll have the next political move to become governor,” he said. “Now it will require a lawsuit to educate him.” He argues the controller violated the separation of powers in violation of the state constitution. While Democrats ralph, a nation sick of California excess raffs out roud (oh stop it.  Hollywood  made those Charlie Chan movies).  Wes Pruden's tightly knitted narrative offers so much more fun (teacher unions) that you'll want to avail yourself, but his last is too good for me to pass up. “ One state senator, Lonnie Hancock of Oakland, thinks he has found a novel source of savings. The state of California is spending $184 million a year to house and feed 714 prisoners on death row. California has executed “only” 13 prisoners since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1978. Old age is the leading cause of death on death row, and Mr. Hancock argues that there’s no point in spending millions to keep people alive while it waits to kill them. This could be the beginning of another California trend. ” Omg.  The back of my head hurts from all this rafter.