State Sen. Michael Rubio resigned unexpectedly Friday, a move that drops Democrats below the two-thirds threshold they need to pass tax changes or override vetoes.
The Democrat from the San Joaquin Valley town of Shafter, which is near Bakersfield, announced that he was stepping down immediately to take a government affairs job with Chevron Corp. He was in the middle of his first term in the Senate, after being elected with 60 percent of the vote in 2010.
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Don't hold your breath, conservatives. . . but this may hold off the higher taxes for a moment - but probably not massive gun control measures they have planned.
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