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6/5/2009
Dems will need to buy budget votes in Assembly
Still more evidence is surfacing of trouble in budget-land. Wednesday I pointed out possible areas of disagreement among Dems in control.
- Deep cuts in school aids
- Oil profits tax will become outright increase in the gas tax
- Drivers Card for illegal immigrants
- Prevailing Wage expansion
Kevin Binversie calls the prospect of Dems disagreeing on budget details an “amendment buy-off festival.” Jerry Bader counts “only about 35 [in the Assembly] committed votes at this point” – and different Dems having different objections to the budget. So, somebody’s going to need to “buy-off” another 15 bodies somewhere.
Buying off Republican votes?
A Bob Ziegelbauer (ok, ok, so Rep. Ziegelbauer is a very fiscally conservative Democrat) memo asks for amendment co-sponsors to:
- Delete Domestic Partner retirement and group insurance benefits
- Delete increases in auto insurance minimum coverage amounts
- Delete changes in joint and several liability • Delete new higher income tax bracket
- Delete increase in capital gains tax
Again, Rep. Ziegelbauer is not your typical Democrat. Getting these amendments passed would definitely “buy-off” a few Republican votes.
Getting to those Dem votes
The AP and WisPolitics reported yesterday afternoon on concerns of Assembly Democrats on hearing a budget review in caucus:
- New 75-cent phone fee
- Mandated collection of racial profiling data
- New mandate that schools provide transportation to pregnant students
- More ominous joint and several liability rules
- Cuts in school aids
- Furloughs of state employees
- Debt restructuring
- Provision on asbestos liability
- RTAs – why not allowed statewide?
- Autism mandate
The mystery budget comes full circle – even for Democrats. Stuff in the budget even they can’t defend. Rep. Marlin Schneider: “There are so many bad things in this budget.” And more yesterday from Schneider: “Where did it come from, what corporations are impacted and which lobbyist brought this in?”
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
Once we get rid of Doyle (www.recalldoyle.com) OTHER arrogant clueless politicians will start listening to the taxpayers. But we have to deal with Jim first.
emily matthews (Fri Jun 05 07:43:47 2009)
I was at the Legislative Breakfast meeting this morning in Kaukauna and it seemed to me that the Democrats who attended(Tom Nelson and Penny Bernard Schaber) seemed to be overwhelmed by the negative responses to the budget and also seemed to be concerned themselves about some of the policy issues that run rampant through this budget.
I feel they should amend the budget to take out all these policy issues and let them stand on their own merit separately after the budget is appoved.
Obviously some of the Democrats themselves are uneasy about these proposals because they know they will be held accountable in the next election for their votes.
Believe it or not some Democrats(Bob Ziegler) are more conservative than you think and it may be like "herding cats" to keep these Democrats in line in the caucases. It should be an entertaining show and I hope some of the awful things in this budget are amended after more logical heads prevail.
Mike
Mike Thomas (Fri Jun 05 10:58:47 2009)
Why can't we ever get a law prohibiting mixing budget with law provisions?
One at the top of my list is the "drivers' cards".
I also have to ask, "If the law can find illegal aliens to give them "drivers' cards" why can't they be found so they can be deported?
Many involved in driving accidents have been found to have had priors. Will they stand in line to tell that they're in this country illegally?
This looks to me to be one of those things that have unintended consequences that the Democrats are so good at.
A close second is raising the minimum amount of insurance needed by those who carry car insurance. As Wisconsin does not require that drivers carry insurance, this is a double burden on those who are now responsible enough to carry insurance.
I believe this will result in people who now carry insurance to drop it because of the resulting higher insurance cost.
How in the world does this help anything.
Just one more unintended consequence of Democrat thinking.
I hope those who are appalled by this budget will contact their legislators and tell them of their concerns. They need to know of our displeasure.
And for those who are already prepared to vote against the budget as it stands, they need to hear from you because it's proof that they're voting their constituents' wishes.
C.R. Stevenson (Fri Jun 05 11:16:20 2009)
If the Dems are buying budget votes, who are they buying them from? As the old saying goes, "you've admitted you're a whore, now we're just working out your price."
Or perhaps you could call it what it is, negotiating, instead of insulting the three guys left on your side.
Matt (Fri Jun 05 11:30:25 2009)
Yup, you're right Matt. I use "buy-off" in quotes in the article, and certainly, what it is, is negotiating. Sometimes the negotiating is above board and transparent, sometimes it isn't. Most always, negotiating costs money. Call it what you like.
Jo (Fri Jun 05 11:52:25 2009)
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