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Yet magically, when the state has held a Democratic majority, the first time there's been a budget surplus since the dot-com boom. The city is not the top leve
by techrat 5y ago
Yet magically, when the state has held a Democratic majority, the first time there's been a budget surplus since the dot-com boom.
The city is not the top level when it comes to funding, champ. It takes, literally in this case, a decade to start to undo the damage of Republican misappropriation and sabotage.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Yet magically, when the state has held a Democratic majority, the first time there's been a budget surplus since the dot-com boom. To be fair, that's probably as much due to a ballot measure lowering the budget threshold down from a 2/3 supermajority and thereby actually making the state governable. OTOH, that measure was heavily pushed by the Democratic governor and legislature and opposed by Republicans, so...
- techrat 5y agoIn 1962. The repeal had been knocked down multiple times in proposition attempts thereafter. Yet Republicans would campaign on preventing the repeal of such a measure and it didn't happen until Democrats had full control of the Capital again. Hmmm, curious. It's almost as if Republicans have a history of being unable or unwilling to work with others.