Gov. Gets Earful From GOP (Schwarzenegger)

[Judi Lynn]

January 12, 2006

Gov. Gets Earful From GOP
Republican legislators want Schwarzenegger to slash borrowing for his $222-billion public works plan and ease environmental rules.

By Peter Nicholas, Times Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday laid out conditions that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger must meet to get their crucial votes for his $222-billion public works program.

The legislators gave Schwarzenegger a list of demands in a private meeting in the Capitol, where the governor had hoped to assuage their concerns that he may be saddling the state with too much debt without enough to show for it.

At the top of the list was a request that the governor pare the $68 billion in state borrowing his plan envisions and relax environmental protections as a means to speedily shore up roads, levees and other infrastructure.

Schwarzenegger needs a two-thirds majority of the Legislature to send his sweeping proposal to the ballot, giving the Republicans special leverage. Even if he gets every Democratic vote, he would need at least six Republican votes in the Assembly, and two in the Senate.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold12jan12,0,5898178.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[xchrom]

1. ''ease environmental rules.''

i hate republicans.

[WePurrsevere]

2. That's one thing I can say positive about Pataki.. he's been good in that

area and seems to actually care about the environment.

[xchrom]

3. pataki is a putz.

[WePurrsevere]

4. True but he's a fairly enviromentally responsible "putz". ;-)

n/t

[zbdent]

5. Why don't they ease the environmental rules

and start dumping nuclear waste around some of them multi-million dollar homes out in the infrared counties . . .