LAT: Schwarzenegger Signs $117.5B Budget (approval was Dem tactical move)

[DeepModem Mom]

Schwarzenegger Signs $117.5 Billion State Budget
By Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO -- After using his blue pencil to nix a number of healthcare, environmental and schools programs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed the state budget, putting in place a spending plan with no new taxes and limited borrowing.

The approval of the budget, which came 11 days into the new fiscal year, will allow the state to continue making billions of dollars in payments to schools, community colleges and vendors doing business with the state.

But before the governor signed it into law, he used his veto authority to eliminate a program that provides prostate cancer treatment to the poor, cancel plans to hire dozens of park wardens and block the purchase of $20 million in educational materials for students learning English....

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The speedy passage of the $117.3 billion budget was largely the result of a tactical move by Democrats in the Legislature, who dropped their demand that it include $3 billion that schools say they are owed under an agreement made with the governor last year.

The Democrats, who say they will fight for the schools money outside the budget process, feared that a delayed spending plan could drive voters to support measures on the Nov. 8 special election ballot that would restrain state spending and curtail lawmakers' powers....


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-071105sign_lat,0,6271831.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[WhiteTara]

1. like a true republican herr boobengroper

lies continually. He was such an education candidate, and now he is a proven liar.