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Living hell ceremony

The potential allotted teacher layoffs as a result of pulling classes together and enlarging the class sizes. Youre gonna see a lot of this, and education is going to take a real clout in this thing because it is such a major part of the state budget, its gonna be one of the places that has to be cut. You cant basically make up 15 billion without cutting education. CAVANAUGH: The California federation of teachers has proposed a one percent tax hike on the top one hearsay of earners in the state. That might raise about two and a half billion dollars for the state. How far do you think a proposal like that could go? MCELROY: Well, if you put it in the initiative process, and you go out and get signatures, you can possibly get it on the ballot in November. Itd be difficult. Youd have to rush like mad, but you could possibly do that. If you count on getting it through living hell ceremony legislature, youd be better off going home and working on jigsaw puzzles because theres no way that that measure is going to pass the legislature. The Republicans will not deliver votes to pass that measure. Thats just an item of faith now with Republicans, and anybody who strays from the path and votes for a revenue measure is threatened with instant political reprisals. CAVANAUGH: Now, Governor Brown worked on a plan to exchange the pension system for public workers in a way to try to encourage Republicans to work with him oncoming to some sort of resolution on the budget deficit. But the governors plan is vague. What have you heard about that issue? MCELROY: Well, thats one of the problems with it is that it is a vague plan. The other is that the fiscal elements of it particularly are hard to define. And the any predictions as to living hell ceremony it would work out have to be colored with the fact that the legislative analysts office just did an analysis of the new corrects that Governor Brown negotiated with several of the state employee unions which included, by the way, pension reform. And concluded that the amount of money that the governors office said was being saved by these renegotiated contracts was not in fact the amount that was being saved. But they saved much less than that, that theyre not nearly as good as advertised. And the legislative analysts is pretty nonpartisan. They have an awfully good record of calling the shots the way they see them. When they say that these savings that were advertised are not as good as was forecast, it makes you think, gee, well, I wonder how the numbers are on the rest of the governors pension plan. CAVANAUGH: A lot of the reviews, as if you could call them that, are the opinion pieces after these budget talks broke down between the governor and the legislature were characterized in a way as a failure for Governor Brown since he made settling this budget such an important part, are the pivotal part of his campaign to be governor. Do you see it as a failure? MCELROY: No, not at all. The governor inherited a terrible situation. Hes inherited a mess, and hes set about trying to fix it. That it may turn out to be unfixable is not his fault. I think the governor has worked really hard trying to pull some pieces together and trying to talk to Republicans, on trying to achieve a bipartisan solution, on being willing to embrace a lot of cuts. I think Jerry Brown has worked extremely hard and has been a surprise to a lot of people that he has stuck to this so well, battled really manfully to try to pull answers together.