BOND MEASURE PROPOSALS MISS PRIMARY BALLOT DEADLINE.Byline: Scripps-McClatchy Western Service Legislators went home Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant for a long weekend without striking a deal on school financing, meaning any school bond measure targeted for the June primary will have to be printed in a supplemental ballot at a cost of millions of dollars. Republicans in the Assembly on Friday objected to leaving without voting on a school bond measure. Monday is the deadline to get bonds on the June ballot, but it's also a legislative holiday, and both the Senate and Assembly will be gone. ``Do we want to penalize pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. the people of California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). and take more from their taxes because we didn't do what we should have today?'' Assemblyman as·sem·bly·man n. A man who is a member of a legislative assembly. assemblyman Noun pl -men a member of a legislative assembly Noun 1. Curt Pringle Curtis L. "Curt" Pringle (born June 27, 1959), is a politician from the U.S. state of California. Pringle, a conservative/libertarian Republican and onetime Speaker of the California State Assembly, is currently Mayor of Anaheim, California and runs his own public relations and , R-Garden Grove, said as the Democrats who control the Assembly prepared to adjourn adjourn v. the final closing of a meeting, such as a convention, a meeting of the board of directors, or any official gathering. It should not be confused with a recess, meaning the meeting will break and then continue at a later time. (See: recess, session) . But Assembly Democrats said their Republican colleagues were themselves causing the delay by not agreeing to a deal that would include lowering the vote threshold needed to approve local school bonds from the current two-thirds to a simple majority. Both the Senate and Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that , also a Republican, have endorsed the idea of lowering the vote threshold, they said. ``What is stopping progress?'' said Assembly Speaker Cruz Bustamante, D-Fresno. ``Let me see, if it's not the Senate, and it's not the governor, and it's not the Democratic members of the Assembly. . . . Who could it be?'' Because it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to place bonds on the ballot, minority Republicans in the Assembly have the ability to block the deal. Democrats are hoping to pressure them into a deal that would lower the two-thirds threshold at least somewhat in exchange for a cap on the fees developers are now asked to pay to finance school construction. After Monday's deadline passes, the Legislature will have until March 9 to get a school bond deal in a supplemental ballot for June. Supplemental ballots cost $3 million to print if they contain one measure, said Alfie Charles, a spokesman for Secretary of State Bill Jones. The cost goes up if additional ballot measures are added. During Friday's argument, Democrats noted that this certainly wouldn't be the first time a bond issue had to be placed in a supplemental ballot. |
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