EDITORIAL: Super-majority protects budget process
Given the annual shame of the state Legislature’s inability to pass a budget, Proposition 25 may seem like a good idea to voters: Eliminate the two-thirds vote requirement for the Legislature to pass a budget, replacing it with a simple majority.
And given the way the state leans overwhelmingly toward the Democrats, a simple majority vote would most certainly get us a budget on time each year.
But voters should ask themselves what kind of budget we’d get if the majority Democrats no longer had to negotiate or compromise with the minority Republicans over the state budget.