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Assembly leader Perez drums up support for budget proposal; questions about its legality are raised

  • 06-21-2010
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Blog by Anthony York/Los Angeles Times

Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) on Friday stood with members of the education community in Los Angeles to support his budget proposal one day after the state attorney general's office raised questions about its legality. Perez has devised a plan -- it involves a new tax on oil extraction coupled with borrowing billions of dollars -- that would bypass the need to make many of the deep cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has dubbed his plan the "California Jobs Budget," and has held news conferences with various interest groups in the Capitol extolling the proposal. Perez's budget offers public schools $5 billion more than the governor's proposal.  (more...)

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