GOP Lawmakers Holding Budget Hostage

(Sacramento) -- California Assembly Budget Committee Chair John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) says Republican lawmakers are playing political games with the state budget. During Thursday's Assembly floor session GOP lawmakers demanded a vote on a state budget. But Assemblymember Laird says that's political gamesmanship since Republican lawmakers will not produce their own version of a budget, are refusing to support the budget produced by the two-house legislative conference committee or the budget proposal from the Governor. Assemblymember Laird says the GOP is holding the budget hostage and refusing to send a ransom note. Here's more from Budget Committee Chair Laird in this Assembly Access Video.

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YouTube | August 7, 2008

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