Sacramento, CA – Assembly Budget Committee Vice-Chair Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) today commented on Governor Jerry Brown’s 2013-14 budget plan:

“I think the Governor deserves credit for advancing a budget plan that imposes fiscal restraint at a time where we absolutely need to do that. It obviously resists the urge to spend money that we don’t have, and it also hopefully resists the urge to levy additional taxes and fees upon an economy that is still struggling to get out of a recession.

“We also very much appreciate the additional focus on education, the additional revenues going to public education are important. We are very supportive of that. It sounds like he came close today to endorsing our idea of freezing tuition at California colleges and universities.

”It’s also frankly a good time for us as legislators and Republicans to call upon the Governor to support ACA 4, the ballot initiative negotiated in the 2009 budget to allow voters to decide whether to create a ‘Rainy Day Fund’ which would prevent the kind of fits and starts, or as the Governor said ‘booms and busts’ of California spending and cutting that happened with the ups and downs of the California economy.”

Audio clips of Assemblyman Gorell’s comments are available in MP3 format attached to this email and on the website at: http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD44/?p=audio