Budget Veto

I am returning Senate Bill 69 and Assembly Bill 98 without my signature.

In January, I presented a balanced budget solution with a mix of deep spending cuts and temporary tax extensions subject to voter approval. My plan would put these extended revenues in a lockbox, ensuring that they are only used to protect education and public safety. It would also address California's long term fiscal crisis by substantially paying down the $35 billion wall of debt built up over the last decade.

Yet Republicans in the Legislature blocked the right of the people to vote on this honest, balanced budget.

Meanwhile, Democrats in the Legislature made valiant efforts to address California's budget crisis by enacting $11 billion in painful cuts and other solutions. I commend them for their tremendous efforts to balance the budget in the absence of Republican cooperation.

Unfortunately, the budget I have received is not a balanced solution. It continues big deficits for years to come and adds billions of dollars of new debt. It also contains legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings. Finally, it is not financeable and therefore will not allow us to meet our obligations as they occur.

We can -- and must -- do better. A balanced budget is critical to our economic recovery. I am, once again, calling on Republicans to allow the people of California to vote on tax extensions for a balanced budget and significant reforms. They should also join Democrats in supporting job creation and ending tax breaks for out-of-state companies. If they continue to obstruct a vote, we will be forced to pursue deeper and more destructive cuts to schools and public safety-- a tragedy for which Republicans will bear full responsibility.

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[becerralino]

@GovernorBrown So you are planning on vetoing the Dream Act for Illegals? If we have leftover money it should go to legal residents, to keep them from going into debt.

[FinalTensh0]

@SpinCage Where is your proof on that at? And please don't provide us a link to FAUX news, because they pretty much take reality itself and turn it into a distorted fantasy.

[1whamster]

Are you going to give your full backing into the murder of Natalie Wood, bearing in mind it was during your last term in office back in 81 that there was a total 'whitewash' and the coroner was fired for wanting to investigate her death! Who on earth has the power to fire a coroner? I just hope you do the right thing this time! RIP Natalie Wood, gone but never forgotten!

[MrBabujani1]

Browns pension plan, fire the governor or make him work till he is 87.

[wyecee]

This state and it's fake people are "gangsta" plague conducted. Reality will paint them as threats.

[webetat]

Today Gerry Browns Office refused to help keep over 200 veterans employed! Leatherby Tools employs these vets and the state is stealing the money from them. Leatherby Tools brought the attention that little girls were being molested thanks to children services and they don't care about that they just want money.

[thotkrime]

Burn in hell brown. Get ou of Sacramento!