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Nicole Parra: From the state house to the dog house
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 18, 2008 06:10pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | What happens when you cross Karen Bass, the L.A. Democrat who leads the Assembly? Nicole Parra, the lone Assembly Democrat to refuse to vote for her party's spending plan on Sunday, shared the answer as her staff packed for a sudden banishment move to a small office across the street from the state Capitol. (That's Parra in the photo at right.) Nancy Vogel has the details:
Bass ordered Assemblywoman Nicole Parra of Hanford out of her fifth-floor Capitol office and into an office building across the street where legislative staffers work.
“They wanted us to have everything packed up by 4 p.m.,” said Parra’s chief of staff, Derek Chernow, as he ripped packing tape to seal a box of office supplies. “We’re just doing what we’re asked by the powers that be.”
Parra, who is in her last few months in the Assembly, said she didn’t vote for the budget because it was not paired with a water bond to pay for additional dams to ease water supply troubles in her agricultural district. She said she had warned Assembly leaders weeks ago that she wouldn’t vote for a budget unless it also improved state water supplies. |
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