Schwarzenegger's Infamous Letter (Not Politics)
 

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Arnold's people are saying it was a coincidence, but statisticians are saying it's less than a .5% chance that could have have happened by accident. I think the phrase "kicks the can down the alley" is the real sign he did it on purpose.

Schwarzenegger's veto message appears to have gone above and beyond

By Denis C. Theriault

dtheriault@mercurynews.com
Posted: 10/28/2009 05:24:59 PM PDT
Updated: 10/28/2009 10:44:37 PM PDT

SACRAMENTO — Tell us, governor, how you really feel.

In what's either a sly jab at a critic — or just an improbably "weird coincidence" — one of the scores of tart veto messages issued by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month apparently contained an extra-special statement of rejection.

As in, a certain four-letter curse word, followed by its familiar friend "you."

The phrase leaps out when reading the first letter of each line in the printed veto message — apparently the only one like it in the batch sent out Oct. 11. The hidden acrostic, first spotted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, has since been splayed across the Internet and even on cable television. (You can check it out at gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf.)

"It's just a weird coincidence," Aaron McLear, the governor's spokesman, said Wednesday, doing his best to play it straight.

"We do hundreds of vetoes every year, so something like this was bound to happen."

But almost as remarkable is to whom it happened. The lucky recipient was Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, who'd authored the bill seeking financing help for San Francisco's waterfront — and who recently earned the governor's ire with some puerile remarks of his own.

At a Democratic fundraiser this month, where Schwarzenegger had popped in as a lark,
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a feisty Ammiano shouted at the governor to kiss the spot where he sits down.

Schwarzenegger has rarely displayed a flair for the subtle when needling his legislative colleagues. During this year's budget grind, he sent sculpted bull testicles to the leader of the Senate.

And of course, during another budget stalemate early in his tenure, Schwarzenegger called his legislative foes "girly men."

"I think it was a very creative way of exercising veto power," Ammiano, a former stand-up comic, told reporters Wednesday.

"I guess the governor is feeling his oats."

what's Bill 1176 about??

"Existing law specifically authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts, adopt infrastructure financing plans for those districts, and issue bonds financed by projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to fund
certain public facilities, pursuant to a specified procedure.

Existing property tax law establishes various procedures and requirements with respect to the annual apportionment and allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, including increased revenues from infrastructure financing districts.

This bill would recast these provisions authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts that include specified waterfront property. This bill would also modify the procedures for San Francisco to adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and allocate projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to specified annual apportionments."

that, and how ridiculously redundant the last sentence is. "In light of this, and after careful consideration"? Who the **** writes that?

The whole thing is written with verbiage people don't use. It's obvious he did it on purpose. Especially since he and this guy have a history of bad blood.

Go Arnie!:tiphat:

I actually think more politicians should be so blunt, rofl. Honesty in politics ftw!

Love it!! Keep it up Arnold.

Arnold is the man, wish he was my gov. we had that gay dude.

At least you dont have a blind dude haha

I'm going to the bronx in like 30 minutes! :tup:

At least your governor didn't call your capital city a hell hole

:bowrofl: