Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Budget tactics threaten rift among top Democrats

The L.A. Times reports:
It has been the $12-billion strategic question ever since Gov. Jerry Brown announced that he would seek renewed taxes to balance the budget: Should Democrats describe, in gruesome detail, just how ugly an all-cuts budget would be in order to spur public support for taxes?

The answer, it seems, is threatening to create a rift among the ruling Democrats, who control both chambers of the Legislature.