No Pay For California Lawmakers Until Budget Resolved, Sen. Noreen Evans (D) UPSET

◼ Assembly Speaker John Perez said Chiang's decision gives the legislature's Republican minority control of the budget process. - Reuters

Last Wednesday was the deadline for lawmakers to submit a budget to the governor for the fiscal year that begins on July 1.

Chiang had warned lawmakers that they would not be paid if they missed the deadline.

"My office's careful review of the recently passed budget found components that were miscalculated, miscounted or unfinished," Chiang said in a statement.

"The numbers simply did not add up, and the legislature will forfeit their pay until a balanced budget is sent to the governor," he said.

In vetoing the budget, Brown said the spending plan approved by his fellow Democrats was filled with "legally questionable maneuvers, costly borrowing and unrealistic savings."

◼ Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa UPSET, "Pay ban creates constitutional crisis" - Press Democrat
◼ Previously: Evans stirs uproar over losing car perk - Press Democrat

In a series of eight online tweets tinged with sarcasm, the Santa Rosa Democrat told her Twitter followers the state could no longer afford to send her to meet constituents in Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake and Napa counties....