Perata Calls on Republican Senate Budget Blockaders to Put Up 15 Votes for Cuts

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

In a letter released this afternoon, Senate President pro Tem Don Perata called on Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman (R-Irvine) and his fellow Republican Senators to unanimously support their proposed budget bill before the Senate will consider supplemental legislation that would institute scores of cuts.
 
"A vote on the budget bill is a vote on the cuts and a vote on the cuts is a vote on the budget," Perata said in a letter to Ackerman. "Therefore, we will not take up your supplemental bill proposing cuts to the budget until and unless you can produce 15 votes on the connected budget bill itself."
 
On Saturday, Perata adjourned the Senate after an all-night session aimed at breaking an impasse over the spending plan and asked Senate Republicans to come up with a budget bill they all could vote for.

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