Sacramento Strip Clubs: California credibility crisis
If members of Congress are able to start their scheduled August break Friday, many of them may be wanting to head for a secluded vacation spot rather than returning home to face their constituents. Back home they’ll find voters who’ve been bombarded with grassroots and advertising campaigns from all sides of the healthcare debate. Labor, the president, both political parties, insurers and business groups that don’t want to pay the bill for healthcare reform have ginned up grassroots activists and scheduled substantial advertising buys to argue their particular point of view.
As if all this agitating over the national agenda were not enough, many senators and members of Congress hail from states with troubled economies, unbalanced budgets and huge deficits. Governors and state legislatures are struggling to close the gaps with deep budget cuts and a grab-bag of potential new taxes on everything from marijuana to strip clubs to cell phone ringtones. California, the poster child for troubled states, has just sh …
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