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A Senate pro tem we can get behind

June 15th, 2009, 4:09 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Mark Landsbaum

Look what I just came across. It talks about the people of California being in “no mood for public expenditures.”

“They were more concerned with taking home enough money to pay their own grocery bills. Tax consciousness and budget consciousness were everywhere in evidence, and the letters which arrived from my constituents reflected the peoples’ concern with public costs.”

Those were the words of no other than the Senate Pro Tem of the California Legislature. He went on to say:

“I was not criticized by my constituents for having voted for reductions in some state programs, nor was I urged to reinstate those reductions.”

Great, huh? The top politician in the state Senate.

Oops. It’s not Darrel Steinberg. Alas, it’s not even 2009. Those were the words of former Senate President Pro Tem Ben Hulse in 1956 reflecting on 1933.

Sigh, if only there were more Hulses in the Capitol. (Tip of the hat to the Cal-Tax Reports) A different guy. A different time. And clearly, California was a different place.

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