https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/06/23/california-withholds-legislator-pay-until-budget-fixed/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:34:31 -0400<![CDATA[I was absolutely certain that there was insufficient moral courage in the California state government to actually make stick the new rule that if California legislators don&#8217;t produce a balanced budget on time every year, then California legislators don&#8217;t get paid until they actually do produce a budget.  That&#8217;s probably because I&#8217;m a bit cynical when it comes to political foxes and fiscal hen-houses, particularly when it comes to rapidly-becoming-failed states like California.  So I assumed that Gov. Brown&#8217;s veto was, while nice, just part of the political kabuki theater that is West Coast politics.]]>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:00:12 -0400<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/06/23/california-withholds-legislator-pay-until-budget-fixed-n39458