The best-case scenario, Brian at Calitics says, is still very dicey:
Somehow, Jerry manages to find the few votes that he needs for the so-called “tax bridge” and then we head to the ballot in September. Yes, September. What is certain to be a pretty low turnout election, we somehow have to make people understand just how important this revenue really is. And that isn’t going to be easy.
The good news is that the Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly are much more in agreement on blocking some of the worst cuts. The bad news, my sources tell me, is that Brown will not back down from his insistence that any new taxes go to a vote of the people.
It’s going to be tricky to get a single GOP vote for even short-term tax extensions (or even for putting tax extensions on the ballot). But if he manages to do that, somehow, the Gov still has to figure out where he’s going to get the millions of dollars it will take to win a low-turnout September election that will favor the conservative side. Who’s going to pay for this?
Not looking good, Jerry.