Got a chance to catch the second half of the Governor's State of the State Speech kicking off the 2009 legislative season.
Let's boil it down:
- Tough times call for innovative choices
- It's time to cut the budget, if we use up the rainy day fund, we could be in trouble in the future
- Stop whining, and start winning
- Just think California's deficit is three times larger than our entire budget ... I guess it's awful nice to be here and not there
- Mitch didn't talk enough about jobs or job creation
- Mitch isn't giving enough money to schools in his budget
- Mitch was overly positive in the fall just to get elected
- Mitch spent too much time on class room discipline
- He avoided the tough issues
Basically, the democrats wants to spend the rainy day fund and Mitch won't let them.
Quote from Capital Watchblog: "Governor Daniels didn’t really say anything different in his State of the State address Tuesday night. But, boy, did he say it differently. The speech was a mixture of optimism and tough demands to stay the fiscal course of tight spending. But the emphasis in some of the wording was really on the tough side."
Here's the Inaugural Address I'll post State of State once it's posted:
