LAT on California's budget stalemate

The LAT reports today on California's budget stalemate, in which 14 Republican senators have refused to go along with the Democrats' budget proposal for seven weeks. Under California's constitution, one of those senators must break ranks and join Democrats in order for the Democrats' budget to pass. (There are too few Republicans for them to have a budget proposal.) The governator supports the Democrats' plan and has appealed to, and perhaps threatened, the Republican senators, without success. The Republican senators regard the governator as a Democrat. Liberals statewide are calling the Republican senators names, which hasn't worked. Has anyone tried negotiating with them? Apparently not.