If Republicans refuse to allow a vote, how bad will the July 1st cuts be?

For a sense of how bad the cuts to education and to the ill, elderly, and poor will be if Sacramento Republicans do not allow us our chance to vote here is an excerpt from Educate Our State, a organization of parents of school aged children in California:
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By Beth Chagonjian

Governor Jerry Brown is lobbying to put an extension of currently existing taxes on the ballot for voter approval. If these taxes are not extended, the Doomsday Cut List will take affect (also known as "Plan B").

What's Plan B? According to the LAO (Legislative Analyst's Office), as reported by California Watch, plan B requires an additional $13.5 billion ($13,505,000,000) in cuts to the California budget.

Make no mistake, all of these cuts are devastating to whatever faction of the public will be affected, but K-12 education would clearly bearing the brunt of pain.

The LAO's* suggested cuts include cuts to the judicial/prison system ($2.612 billion), cuts to the health and social services sector ($1.15 billion), cuts to government and local government (1.796 billion), transportation and resources ($1.65 billion) and higher education (1.056 billion), but it's the cuts to K-12 education (the largest part of the proposed cuts) that really make you gasp. Those proposed cuts are $5.239 billion (or $5,239,000,000) or 38.79% (5.239/13.505) of the entire cuts package.

http://educateourstate.posterous.com/
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If you think you have the right to a vote before these doomsday cuts have to be made, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.

California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084

California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90


*The LAO is the Legislative Analyst Office a non partisan part arm of the state legislature that looks only at financial matters relating to the state budget.