{"id":1618,"date":"2003-07-22T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/sauce-for-the-goose\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T19:14:19","slug":"sauce-for-the-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/sauce-for-the-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauce for the goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tRe: the following story on Sacramento shenanigans by far-left Dems, see <a title=\"sacbee.com -- Politics -- Dan Walters: Supermajority votes undemocratic? It depends on the issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/story\/7080155p-8028071c.html\">Dan Walters<\/a> on the locational element to super-majority vote requirements:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is, proponents of the change argue, inherently undemocratic to allow a legislative minority to dictate fiscal policy for the state, noting that California is one of just a handful of states requiring supermajority votes on budgetary matters.<\/p>\n<p>The argument may be valid, but it is more than a bit ironic that the same political interests that want to eliminate supermajority votes on budgets in California are very supportive of the Democratic filibusters on President Bush&#8217;s judicial appointments in the U.S. Senate. It takes a supermajority vote of 60 senators to break a filibuster (ending otherwise unlimited debate), so on highly controversial matters of any kind, 60 votes become the threshold in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s undemocratic in Sacramento, those on the political left seem to be saying, is quite appropriate in Washington. And with a vote in the state Assembly on Monday, they seem to be saying that undemocratic supermajority vote requirements should become a legal mandate in local government, at least when it pertains to police and fire labor contracts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dan Walters is always worth reading, of course.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: the following story on Sacramento shenanigans by far-left Dems, see Dan Walters on the locational element to super-majority vote requirements: It is, proponents of the change argue, inherently undemocratic to allow a legislative minority to dictate fiscal policy for the state, noting that California is one of just a handful of states requiring supermajority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/sauce-for-the-goose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sauce for the goose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-q6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}