Friday, September 5, 2008

California nears record in spending plan stalemate

By Steve Wiegand - swiegand@sacbee.com

With California on the verge of another dubious record in the Great Budget Debacle of 2008, it would seem prudent for state officials to be preparing for a worst-case scenario.

Trouble is, no one seems to know what that might be.

"I don't think that we can predict the impact of not having a budget in place in the near future," said Hallye Jordan, spokeswoman for state Controller John Chiang. "We know what the pain has been."

Saturday will mark the latest into a fiscal year (which started July 1) that the state has ever gone without a budget. On Monday, lawmakers surpassed their Aug. 31 record for the latest the Legislature had ever approved a budget. READ MORE

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