48 Days Later

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

Here are a few numbers and quotes about the direct impacts of the missing budget, which is now 48 days late. (stats from Myers)

34,585 that is the number of invoices CalTrans estimates are pass due, totaling $8.1 million they owe to a bunch of small and large businesses.
$17 million the amount the CHP owes
unknown the total amount of late fees that the state is racking up, not exactly fiscally prudent. (CalTrans alone has $278,000 in penalties)
$2.5 billion the total amount of infrastructure bonds that the state cannot sell without a budget. The delay means that projects will be pushed back, for without the money, they cannot build.
#3 by Monday that will be the ranking of this impasse on the all time list of late budgets in California.

P.S. Dan Walter's makes no sense today. He starts out talking about the fact that one of the big holdups in the budget is the Republican Senators insistence on banning Attorney General Jerry Brown from blocking local governments over global warming. Then the rest of the column is about the long standing battle between business interests and liberal groups. It seems like he really wanted to write conflict story and tried, but failed to connect it to the budget. Maybe the editors chopped out something...

I will be back on Monday with a full slate of content. Tan, rested and rarin' to go.