Update June 21: The answer is "yes."
When the legislature slipped Governor Jerry Brown a budget just under the wire, lawmakers thought they had met the requirement under Proposition 25 to keep getting paid. That law, passed by voters in November, withholds legislator pay for every day after the June 15 constitutional deadline that there is no budget.
But complications have arisen, as they say. Brown vetoed the budget, citing a surfeit of "gimmicks" -- questionable accounting maneuvers that eliminate the deficit on paper but in the real world... maybe not so much.
So op-ed writers and interest groups are calling for the guy who issues the checks, state controller John Chiang, to stop paying the legislature.
Will he or won't he?