Budget leaks become a flood

As we approach the June 15th deadline for the legislature to pass a state budget, the drip-drip of leaks about the negotiations between the governor and Democratic leaders (the GOP is cut out of deal making), is becoming a flood.

Sadly, what is coming out of that flood deals with high-speed rail, social programs especially home care aides, fixing up the governor's mansion, and fees on railroad oil cars.*  So far, no substantive leak on the higher ed budget, i.e., whether it exceeds the governor's proposal, has appeared.  [An earlier post noted a brief mention of higher ed, but without any details.]

The only good news is that there are only a couple more days before we find out. 

*http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rail-oil-fee-20140613-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-pol-state-budget-20140613-story.html
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/06/budget-includes-25-million-to-fix-up-governors-mansion.html
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/06/budget-deal-rejects-home-care-overtime-restrictions.html
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/06/budget-deal-gives-25-percent-of-cap-and-trade-money-to-high-speed-rail.html

The bad news is that the last flood caused a lot of problems: