California wants Budget input for a live internet Town Hall meeting (submit now!)

[Brian4Liberty]

This is probably just for California residents. Pass it on. Live Town Hall meetings to discuss the California Budget are going to be held on Tues. Aug. 24th and Thurs. Aug 26th at 6:30pm PDT.

Since the Budget has not yet been passed, they have decided that they want public feedback. Here is your opportunity to submit questions and ideas for the California politicians as they work on the budget.

Please be polite! ;)

Budget info and research links:

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/California_state_budget
http://reason.org/studies/show/fix-california-pension-crisis
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/
http://www.dof.ca.gov/budget/
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0801-lopezcolumn-20100801,0,2585758.column
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/greenhut/article_6cb5ef32-43ab-5f45-838f-85e1ba40593c.html
http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_D_op_17_ed_pensions.193c230.html
http://reason.org/files/california_pension_crisis_reform_summary.pdf


Question and suggestion links:

http://senweb03.senate.ca.gov/focus/townhall/

http://senweb03.senate.ca.gov/focus/budget/default.aspx


Upcoming Internet Town Halls on California's Budget

Live Internet Town Hall

We (California Senate Majority Caucus) will be hosting live Internet Town Halls on the California State Budget during the week of the August 23rd. Please submit your questions now.

http://senweb03.senate.ca.gov/focus/townhall/

http://senweb03.senate.ca.gov/focus/budget/elements/townhallTV.jpg

[Brian4Liberty]

Have a question -- or just want to sound off -- about the state budget but can't make it to Sacramento? Well, Democrats in the state Senate are giving you the opportunity to do that from home.

The Democrats are holding three days of online town hall meetings Aug. 24-26, with the second night being a Spanish-language broadcast. We're guessing the $19 billion deficit won't be solved by then.

Lawmakers could get a earful -- the budget is more than 50 days late and state Controller John Chiang said this week that California could begin issuing IOUs in the next few weeks.

"We're hearing a lot from our constituents (who are) upset that there's not a budget. Rightly so," said Alicia Trost, spokeswoman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, who will host the first town hall with Berkeley Democrat Loni Hancock.

Trost said lawmakers want to "better educate (constituents) about what's at stake and what choices lawmakers are facing this year." Senate Democrats did a similar online forum last year and it was popular as far as people viewing Senate videos online goes, Trost said.

The Spanish-language town hall will be hosted by Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny, D-San Diego, who is chairwoman of the Senate Committee Budget and Fiscal Review. San Francisco Democrat Mark Leno, who also is on the budget committee, will be part of the third night.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=70579#ixzz0xXj1itLH

[Brian4Liberty]

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