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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's endorsement of a budget crafted by his party's lawmakers that closes California's remaining $9.6 billion deficit without Republican support reveals the GOP's waning influence in the state. Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Legislators began voting on the $86 billion budget Tuesday. If it passes, as expected, the budget for the fiscal year beginning Friday would be the first in decades approved by just over half the legislature, in which Democrats have a majority. A California ballot measure passed by voters last fall reversed a law that required a budget to receive two-thirds approval. Such a supermajority would need four Republican votes. Nike Zoom Kobe VI Last year's ballot decision was seen partly as a rebuke of the outsize role of Republicans in budget discussions when compared with their numbers in the legislature. The gridlock between the parties often led to long delays in approving budgets—sometimes culminating in deals in which a few Republicans offered their votes in exchange for policy concessions such as corporate tax breaks. The new law changed the dynamic this year, allowing Mr. Brown to abandon his negotiations with Republicans this week and pursue a Plan B that includes provisions that are unpopular among Republicans, such as collecting $1.7 billion held by community redevelopment agencies. Nike Air Yeezy "If we were back to a super- majority vote, it's quite possible that the Republicans would have extracted an even more serious amount of cuts or would have extracted pension reform or regulatory relief," said Bruce Cain, a political-science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "The Republicans did lose something by not having control over the budget vote." Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the California Republican Party, said, "As far as influence goes, the fact of the matter is that Republicans blocked one of the worst tax-and-spend plans that California has seen in decades." He added that public support has recently risen for conservative policies such as cutting public-pension costs. Nike Air Max 2011 Sen. Bob Dutton, the minority leader of the state Senate, said he wouldn't speculate about what the budget might have looked like if it still required a two-thirds vote to pass. But he said Republicans still notched some important successes by essentially forcing Democrats to come up with an alternative budget without new taxes. State law still requires that two-thirds of the legislature support any measure that raises taxes. Nike Air Max 24 7 "First of all, we haven't raised taxes during a recession," Mr. Dutton said. "There is some meaningful discussion about reforms." A spokeswoman for Minority Leader Connie Conway in the Assembly, the legislature's lower house, didn't respond to an email requesting comment. The development comes as the Republican ranks diminish in California, due partly to the rise of Latino voters who tend to be Democrats. In February 2011, 31% of voters were registered as Republicans, a decline from 35% in February 2003, according to the California Secretary of State's office. Registered Democrats held steady at 44%, while those who said they had no party Nike Air Max Lebron Faced with a declining role in Sacramento, Republican legislators appear to have used their limited influence in this year's budget talks to put their opposition to taxes above all else, political experts said. "It does seem to be their major position," said Mark Baldassare, president of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, a think tank. "Their requirement all along was not only to not increase taxes but not to extend them." Nike Air Yeezy Faced with an initial budget gap of $25.6 billion, Mr. Brown earlier this year approved $11.2 billion in cuts while seeking to raise $11.2 billion in revenue by extending expiring tax increases. Mr. Brown initially tried to woo a handful of Republican votes to approve putting the tax-increase question to voters in a ballot measure, as he had promised during his campaign last year he would do. When time ran out for a vote, he pressed Republicans to approve extending the taxes through a legislative vote. Nike Zoom Kobe VI While Republicans were willing to ask voters to extend the tax increases through a ballot measure, in exchange for also asking voters to limit spending and make changes to public pensions, they were unwilling to extend the taxes themselves through a legislative vote, saying their constituents wouldn't agree with it. Nike Air Max 24 7 Mr. Brown abandoned his plan Monday and unveiled the Democrat legislators' budget, with his backing. An earlier budget plan from the Democrats was vetoed by Mr. Brown two week ago. The Democrats' new plan builds in $4 billion in anticipated new state revenue on top of earlier expectations and would trigger $2.6 billion in additional cuts if that revenue doesn't materialize. Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Nike Air Max 2011 Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Nike Air Max 2011

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Friday's anti-government marches, some tied to Friday prayers, reportedly were some of the largest in the 3-month-old protest movement that has convulsed the strategically situated Arab nation. Nike Air Max 2009 Large demonstrations were reported in the central cities of Homs and Hama, the suburbs of Damascus, the mainly Kurdish city of Qamishli in the north, and the eastern oil hub of Dair Alzour, according to activist accounts and amateur video footage. Footage from Hama, one of the centers of the protest movement, showed what appeared to be tens of thousands of people in the streets shouting anti-Assad slogans. Nike Air Max 2010 Outside Damascus, the capital, security forces responded with gunfire and tear gas to protests in the suburbs of Barze and Midan, according to activists. A witness in Barze said uniformed and plainclothes officers were conducting "mass arrests … taking whoever is standing in the street." Another witness said that regime gunmen started firing at a large gathering in south Damascus, resulting in an unknown number of injuries. The witnesses requested anonymity for fear of retribution. It is difficult to corroborate information coming from inside Syria because the regime has placed strict limits on media access. In central Homs, loyalist shabiha militiamen were reported roaming the streets, while security forces beat protesters with sticks near a mosque in the Midan district of Damascus, according to the activist network the Local Coordination Committees in Syria. The group accused security forces of opening fire on demonstrators and put the number dead nationwide on Friday at 20, including several children. On Friday, more than 8,000 people from the villages and cities of Saqba, Hamouria and Jisreen, all near Damascus, were reported to be protesting in joint rallies, calling for the toppling of the regime. boys carrying a banner with the slogan "Bashar is no longer my president and the government doesn't represent me!" as crowds behind them hoisted a huge Syrian flag and chanted: "The people want the downfall of the regime." Nike Air Max 24 7 Another clip, filmed in the village of Kobani in the province of Aleppo, showed demonstrators holding banners reading "Friday of the fall of legitimacy." The government's official Syrian Arab News Agency reported that a security officer was "martyred" outside Damascus, while "gunmen opened fire" on police and others in Barze, killing three citizens and injuring an unspecified number of law enforcement personnel. Nike Air Max 90 The government said "saboteurs" attacked shops in Homs, while security forces and "armed groups" exchanged fire outside the city and unidentified gunmen "kidnapped an ambulance carrying injured people" in the countryside. The protests came only a few days after Assad offered vague promises of reform in a speech and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem blamed the West for inciting violence in the Arab nation. Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Air Yeezy Nike Zoom Kobe VI

GEERT WILDERS, one of Europe’s most high-profile right-wing political leaders, was acquitted by a Dutch court yesterday on charges of inciting hatred of Muslims – in a ruling which is likely to exacerbate tensions over immigration policy in the Netherlands. As he emerged from court in Amsterdam at the end of a trial which began last October, Mr Wilders (47) said he was “incredibly happy”, and described the outcome as “not just an acquittal for me, but a victory for freedom of expression in the Netherlands”. Clarks Shoes He added: “The good news is that, as a result of this ruling, it is legal to speak in a critical way about Islam. The Islamicisation of our societies is a major problem and a threat to our freedom – and I’m allowed to say so. I have not been muzzled.” Mr Wilders was charged in January 2009 with inciting hatred and discrimination based on anti-Islamic statements he made in speeches, in articles, on the internet, and in his controversial 2008 film, Fitna – Arabic for Dissention – which mixes Koranic verses with video footage of extremist attacks. Nike Air Max 2011 The 17-minute film caused outrage among minority groups by comparing the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s apologia, Mein Kampf . Anti-racism campaigners and leaders of the ethnic community who initiated the case against the Freedom Party (PVV) leader told the trial that Mr Wilders’s comments had led to a rise in discrimination and violence against Muslims – and they sought a symbolic penalty in the form of a one euro fine. Nike Air Max 2009 However, Judge Marcel van Oosten found in Mr Wilders’s favour yesterday, finding him not guilty on all the charges and ruling that his comments had been directed at Islam as a religion and not at Muslim believers. He said that while some of the statements were “insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptability”, they were made in the broad context of a vigorous political and social debate in a multicultural society. Nike Air Max 2010 At the end of the 20-minute ruling, Judge van Oosten said that while the bench found many of the comments – especially those about “a tsunami of immigrants” – both “gross and denigrating”, they had not given rise to hatred. The verdict was greeted with applause from PVV supporters packed into the public gallery. However, Ties Prakken, lawyer for the plaintiff immigrant groups, said they were “deeply disappointed” by the decision, and believed the right of minorities to be protected against hate speech had been violated. Nike Air Max 24 7 While the ruling will not be appealed in the Netherlands by the prosecuting authorities, who accepted during the trial that Mr Wilders’s comments were offensive but not illegal, it is possible that the plaintiffs will continue their campaign to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Boosted by its anti-immigrant stance, the PVV is now the third-largest political party in the Dutch parliament and an essential supporter of the minority Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition led by prime minister Mark Rutte. Nike Air Max 90 Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Air Yeezy Nike Zoom Kobe VI

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