By Steve Thompson, Chairman of the Butte County Republican Party

You know your state government is completely corrupt when something like this happens. Democrats in CA control the Legislature and all the major state offices (Governor, Lt. Governor, Controller, etc). The only thing they do not completely control is the people (they’re still working on that). So it’s almost comical but really quite sad to see Democrat Legislators suing our Democrat State Controller over the fact that he docked their pay when they did not produce a balanced budget on time last year.
Yes you read that right. Voters recently gave the Legislature the ability to pass a budget with less than the two-thirds majority, but with the caveat that legislators would not receive pay or expenses if they did not pass the budget on time (see Prop 25). As some readers may remember, the Legislature passed a sham smoke & mirrors budget by the deadline, but the State Controller (also a democrat) called them on it. The budget was declared not financeable and the State Controller refused to pay legislators until they passed a real budget.

Now Democrat legislators are actually suing the state for docking their pay. You can read an article about the lawsuit in the LA Times.

State Controller John Chiang had this to say about the matter: “The issue before us is not the role of my office, but how to enact the will of the voters,” he said. “It is noteworthy to point out that the Legislature’s budget proposal was not only vetoed by the Governor for not being a ‘balanced solution,’ but it was determined by the Treasurer to not be financeable, and would have, within months of its passage, led to the issuance of IOUs.
“While nothing in the Constitution gives me the authority to judge the honesty, legitimacy or viability of a budget, it does clearly restrict my authority to issue pay to Legislators when they fail to enact a balanced budget by the Constitutional deadline of June 15.”

What’s amazing about this story is not that the Controller docked the legislators’ pay. It’s not amazing that the Legislature failed to produce a real budget by the deadline. It’s not even amazing that the democrat legislators would complain.
What’s amazing is that democrat legislators are so confident that voters will never punish them no matter how audacious and corrupt they become, that they are now suing the state for docking their pay as punishment of their own failure to govern.

What’s amazing is that democrat voters from the districts of these “untouchables” will probably never even read about this act in the paper, and will continue to vote these scumbags right back into office.

Of course, I shouldn’t be surprised. When Jane Dolan got her 1% deal from Governor Brown (she gets paid $40,000 a year for one meeting a month), local democrats in the Chico area rushed to defend this blatant example of government cronyism. On the other hand, some of those same democrats thought Dolan was untouchable as well. A myth that Larry Wahl (in Elliot Ness fashion), handily shot down.

Meanwhile, the same democrats who vote for crony handouts and sue for state perks want us all to pay more taxes to finance their corruption. They’re even willing to threaten cuts to your children if you don’t go along. This November, let’s show them how “untouchable” their tax and spend corruption really is with a nice fat defeat at the polls.