PolitiCal Roundup: Schemes for a budget deal, GOP soul-searching

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Is a bipartisan compromise on the budget still possible in Sacramento? Times’ columnist George Skelton parses the possibilities -- labor and environmental advocates must give ground, he says, or Brown must break his ‘foolish’ campaign promise on taxes.

A GOP proposal to denounce lawmakers who vote for Jerry Brown’s budget as ‘traitors’ has been withdrawn as state Republicans weigh their options.

And from San Jose, a ground-level view of the state’s budget troubles: Would-be public school teachers line up 50 deep for scarce jobs in Santa Clara County.

-- Jill Leovy