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Responding to that new pressure and the exhaustion of weeks of closed-door negotiations, Republican Governor Pete Wilson last Friday offered up a new budget proposal that scaled back some previous demands but kept severe cuts in education and welfare. His plan was expected to meet continued resistance when it went before the Democratic-controlled legislature this week. "Enough is enough," Wilson pleaded. "Innocent people are suffering because of the inability of those in the capitol to make difficult decisions...
...enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion team that went to Miami, then with the Seattle Mariners. Says local booster Jack Critchfield: "We've been used as a nuclear threat to other communities to make them...
Nevertheless, slow-motion negotiations back in Sacramento between Republican Governor Pete Wilson and the Democratic-controlled legislature, now oozing into a second month, showed growing signs of urgency. The two branches of state government were still hung up over the question of how to close an $11 billion gap for a new $60 billion budget. At the heart of the standoff was Wilson's stubborn insistence on cutting education $2.3 billion. Wilson also threatened to veto a compromise bill introduced in his own Republican ranks. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's Democrats just as stubbornly drew the line and refused...
...IOUs were floated after Republican Governor Pete Wilson could not reach agreement with the Democrat-controlled legislature on how to balance the budget. California had not used such a promissory system widely since the Great Depression. Known as registered warrants, the IOUs are numbered chits resembling checks. Under the state's plan, depositors and their banks were informed which numbered IOUs could be cashed as the state found funds to back them. The state offered to pay banks a 5% fee to process the chits, but banks maintained that the cumbersome process of handling the unusual payments would cost them...
...even more surprising when you consider who goes to All-Star Games, especially in conservative San Diego, political birthplace of California's republican governor, Pete Wilson. Tickets to such games are expensive (40 bucks for the cheapest seats this year) and usually obtained by what Richard Ben Cramer, in his new book What It Takes: The Way to the White House, calls the "corporate perks crowd"--white and GOP-friendly...