Schwarzenegger Bond Issue Not on June Ballot

[Judi Lynn]

Schwarzenegger Bond Issue Not on June Ballot
The Assembly OKs the levee and education provisions of the ambitious $49-billion public works plan, but the Senate refuses to act.
By Jordan Rau, Times Staff Writer
March 16, 2006

SACRAMENTO — Stymied by Republican resistance, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's hope of placing the most comprehensive rebuilding project in California history on the June ballot foundered Wednesday amid recriminations among legislative leaders and the administration.

The California Assembly approved only a $4.1-billion borrowing plan to shore up the state's levees and $19 billion more for school construction. But late Wednesday night, the Senate declined to act on either measure, and the upper house's leaders said further negotiations would have to focus on the November ballot.

Passing the hastily negotiated package "starts looking to Californians like we don't know what we are doing," said Senate leader Don Perata (D-Oakland).

He said he hoped that lawmakers could place on the November ballot "something we can be proud of."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-bond16mar16,1,4818891.story?coll=la-news-politics-california

[bemildred]

1. Good. Keep it that way. nt

[David__77]

2. CA GOP is bumbling and incompetent.

I cannot say I'm unpleased with this. I was sickened by Sen. Perata's tailing after Schwarzenegger's agenda. This is not a time for that, rather it is a time to push him into the dustbin.