McCarthy Calls For Bipartisan Effort To Address Ongoing Budget Deficit And Redistricting Reform
McCarthy Calls For Bipartisan Effort To Address Ongoing Budget Deficit And Redistricting Reform
11/9/2005
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Morgan Crinklaw
(916) 319-2032
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, of Bakersfield, today called for a focus on fiscal and voter accountability when the Legislature returns in January 2006:
"Despite being overshadowed by the occasion of yesterday's Special Election, we still have significant work to do to address some of the most difficult issues facing California - especially in regard to our responsibility to be prudent fiscal stewards of taxpayers' hard-earned money and to bring fairness to our redistricting process. I have already spoken with Speaker Nunez and look forward to working with him and our counterparts in the Senate to forge solutions to our ongoing structural budget deficit, as well as to craft a redistricting plan that can be supported by members on both sides of the aisle."
"We have made great strides in the debate on the principle of redistricting reform, as evidenced by the overwhelming editorial support by California's newspapers for Proposition 77. That's why I will again be introducing legislation, as I have each year since I was elected, to restore accountability and fairness to the drawing of California's political lines - and to ensure that the people of California have the final vote on any plan put forth."
"We will return in six short weeks to the very real challenge of coming together to finally get California's budget in order. There's no doubt that important and fundamental reform - fiscal as well as political - takes time. The time is now, however, to end the divisive actions and rhetoric and move past the election to address our critical long-standing issues with vision and collective resolve."
"We can make real and important change, but only if we return with a commitment to work in a bipartisan spirit on behalf of the good of all Californians."
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