RESOLUTIONS:
The following resolutions will be taken up at the CA State Democratic Party Convention. Please let your Assembly District delegates know your thoughts on these resolutions:
Resolution to overturn the 2/3rds voting requirement on State Budgets
April, 2009
WHEREAS the requirement that ANY budget/revenue vote in California has to be approved by a 2/3 majority of legislative voters has created a permanent conservative veto over California policy, and
WHEREAS this conservative veto which is ideologically driven and part of the American’s for Tax Reform national campaign to “shrink government so small you can drown it in the bathtub,” has nothing to do with honest, good faith negotiation and over the last 6 budget cycles has succeeded in moving toward this goal by cutting $39 billion from the States’ Health and Human Services budgets and has brought the State to near bankruptcy, and
WHEREAS this continual attack on essential public services and education has a deleterious effect on the California economy by depressing the job market, eliminating cost effective preventive services and increasing the use of expensive incarcerations, hospitalizations and emergency services; and by increasing the pain and suffering of millions of California citizens; and by contributing to the demise of the middle class and the establishment of a two-class system;
THEREFORE the California Democratic Party calls for the overturn of this 2/3rds requirement to restore true Representative Government to the state of California and create a legislative climate where honest deliberation and thoughtful compromise can occur, and
THEREFORE the California Democratic Party requests all Democratic members of the State Legislature to make changing this requirement their top priority and pledges to work as a Party to educate and advocate for and work to change the budgetary/revenue requirement to either a simple majority or a 55% vote.
Submitted by
Carole Lutness, Chair
Democratic Neighbor of the 38th AD
Democratic Women of the San Fernando Valley
Democratic Club of Santa Clarita Valley
Democratic Alliance for Disability Issues
Sherman Oaks Democratic Club
