SACRAMENTO – Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) issued the following joint statement regarding Governor Brown’s veto of the Legislature’s budget:
“We are deeply dismayed by the Governor’s veto today. The budget plan approved by the Legislature closely mirrored the Governor’s framework of a mixture of cuts and revenue solutions. We have supported the Governor’s January proposal from the moment he unveiled it, and quite frankly, we have moved heaven and earth to get his budget approved—to the point that Democrats voted for billions of dollars of budget cuts we absolutely deplore. We did this because we believe he had the right to try and make his plan workable, but at the end of the day, he could not get the Republican votes. Today’s veto was unnecessary and counterproductive, and it leaves us back at square one.”
Speaker Pérez Responds to Governor's Veto
(Sacramento) - Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) issued a joint statement regarding Governor Brown’s veto of the Legislature’s budget. “We are deeply dismayed by the Governor’s veto today. The budget plan approved by the Legislature closely mirrored the Governor’s framework of a mixture of cuts and revenue solutions. We have supported the Governor’s January proposal from the moment he unveiled it, and quite frankly, we have moved heaven and earth to get his budget approved—to the point that Democrats voted for billions of dollars of budget cuts we absolutely deplore. We did this because we believe he had the right to try and make his plan workable, but at the end of the day, he could not get the Republican votes. Today’s veto was unnecessary and counterproductive, and it leaves us back at square one.” Here’s more from Speaker Pérez in this Assembly Access video.
CONTACT: Robin Swanson (Pérez) (916) 319-2408, Alicia Trost (Steinberg) (916) 651-4188
Website of Speaker John A. Pérez: www.asmdc.org/speaker
Website of President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg: http://dist06.casen.govoffice.com/
