Inside Sacramento: May Revise, Budget Deficit Confusion, Recall Bid Dropped, New Assembly Speaker

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Published May 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM PDT

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The California state budget is facing major cuts, the "May Revise" is coming up next week, a plan to recall a Republican state senator is abandoned, and Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez passes the

Tom Fudge: The budget news in Sacramento is bad this year. And recently, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bearer of even worse news. He has said publicly that the state budget gap may be $20 billion. That's more than anyone else has estimated, and it may be an exaggeration. We will soon get some hard figures when we see that rite of spring state government: the May Revise. That's a budget update that tells us the latest news on tax receipts. Meanwhile California communities are on pins and needles. They're wondering how many teachers are going to be laid off in their local school districts due to the budget shortfall.

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Marianne Russ, capitol bureau chief of the California Capitol Network .