CA Senate Delays Budget Vote for a 3rd… and 4th Time

Via Assemblyman Chuck DeVore:

CA State Senate has pushed floor session to 4pm now, 3rd delay today. Signals that they don’t yet have votes for taxes.

UPDATE from Chuck DeVore:

CA State Senate will reconvene at 6pm – the 4th delay today. Assembly preparing to adjourn for the day.

Assembly will be reconvening at 8pm tonight. Looks like their having a hard time nailing down that last vote… keep it up guys. Sen. Maldonado, the previously expected 27th vote, released his wishlist after a morning meeting with President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.

Maldonado’s list includes: Open primaries for State legislature, a law cutting pay for legislators if a budget is passed late, a law cancelling pay and per diem raises for legislators during a budget deficit, and he wants to remove the pork spending from the budget.