Courage Campaign Releases Statement on Democratic Budget Solution and Governor's Veto

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 18, 2008

 Statement from Courage Campaign on Democratic Budget Solution and Governor’s Veto

LOS ANGELES – Rick Jacobs, founder and chair of the Courage Campaign — a MoveOn-style online organizing network in California with more than 300,000 members — today made the following statement praising Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg for their innovative and creative solution to the state’s budget crisis:

“Speaker Bass and Pro Tem Steinberg stood up for California today, showing real leadership in the face of right-wing Republicans holding our state hostage.  Governor Schwarzenegger had a chance to terminate the current budget calamity, but instead he chose to act as a partisan committed to bankrupt ideology rather than the people of this state.”

“Our network of over 300,000 Californians fully back Speaker Bass and Pro Tem Steinberg for taking a risk for all of us.  While we need a short-term solution now to avoid state bankruptcy and more pain to children, the elderly and those least able to fend for themselves, this whole mess is a neon billboard advertising an end to the absurd rule that requires a 2/3 vote to approve a budget.  We must change the law to save our state.”

“Governor Schwarzenegger will no doubt celebrate Christmas in the warmth of one his many homes.  He deserves a lump of coal and nothing more.”

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