Legal Opinion Finds Governor’s Budget Cuts Illegal
Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair John A. Perez sought and received a legal opinion that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest senseless and brutal budget cuts are illegal.
The legal opinion finds that Schwarzenegger’s use of line-item veto to slash additional hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget passed by the Legislature exceeded his authority granted by the California State Constitution.
Schwarzenegger’s illegal power-grab vetoes cut over $400 million directly from services that would devastate the lives of millions of Californians:
- $61 million from county funding for Medi-Cal
- $52 million from AIDS prevention and treatment
- $50 million from Healthy Families
- $27.8 million from the Williamson Act program
- Eliminating funding for community health clinic programs
Click here to read the report and legal memo.
Call your state legislators today and tell them to stand up for California and oppose Schwarzenegger’s power-grab. Don’t let Schwarzenegger terminate the lives of millions of real people who depend on critical state services. Click here to find their contact information.
