Back Hand Criticism of Sacramento Republicans by North County Times

Pigs fly a second week in a row. The North County Times editorial staff has back handly mildly criticized the Sacramento Republicans on two consequetive Saturdays by reprinting a mild criticism of the Sac. Repubs from another newspaper. Here is the reprinted editorial from the safely pro Republican Stockton newspaper that made it passed the union hating editorial staff at the North County Times:

Let the people speak

Last week, half the heavy lifting for the new state budget was completed. Republicans ---- some Republicans, anyway ---- helped out, voting for a series of bills designed to cut away about $14 billion of the state's monstrous $26.6 billion deficit.

Who would have thought the easy part would be cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from our colleges and universities, shifting prisoners to county jails and slashing funds for Medi-Cal patients?

But to erase the rest will take an extension of existing tax rates (or absent, that, significant additional cuts). That requires two things: acquiescence by enough legislative Republicans to put the extension on the June ballot (it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature) and a willingness of California voters to keeping current tax rates. ...

Before that happens, the Brown administration needs to spell out, clearly and in the most unvarnished terms possible, what will happen if legislative Republicans remain united in their opposition to letting state voters have a voice.

---- The Record (Stockton), March 23

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_2e12e72e-6c2b-524d-9a58-b4bd4abf1dff.html