EDITORIAL SCOFFLAWS HOW CAN CALIFORNIA GET STATE LEADERS TO DO THEIR JOBS?(Editorial)(Editorial)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 16, 2008 | Copyright information

MID-August.

That is, according to the best estimates of Sacramento insiders, the earliest that Californians can expect to see their state government approve a budget -- one that attempts to rein in an estimated $15.2 billion deficit.

Never mind that the state constitution requires the Legislature to have passed a budget by June 15, and the governor to have signed one by July 1. The state's political leaders -- who think nothing of imposing a $93 ticket on the motorist who forgets to drive with a hands-free cell-phone device -- conveniently ignore their own legal ...

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