You should try whatever she's on!
Regards,
LH
Posted on 08/10/2004 8:47:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SANTA FE (AP) - New Mexico has part-time lawmakers and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's visit didn't convince him of the wisdom of either.
Schwarzenegger, further distancing himself from the idea he first floated in the spring, said Tuesday the notion of a part-time California Legislature needs much more study and he has no plans to try to get it on the ballot.
The California governor also said while the driver's license debate could be resolved in the current legislative session, security concerns remain a stumbling block.
And Schwarzenegger said he still hasn't made up his mind on the bond measure that would provide $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research. While he described himself as "very much pro-stem cell research," he said he worries about the measure's financial implications for California.
"You cannot just be passionate about one thing. Your passion has to be the state," he said during an interview at the conclusion of a two-day Border Governors' Conference.
Schwarzenegger said he was unfazed by the Field Poll released Tuesday that showed the majority of Californians opposed to his suggestion for a part-time Legislature.
"My ideas don't come from the polls," he said.
But he said the suggestion deserves extensive public debate of the pros and cons, and research into how well it works in other states, "and then maybe take it seriously."
Schwarzenegger said he talked this week with Texas Gov. Rick Perry about that state's system - a 140-day legislative session every two years. New Mexico has annual sessions, of 60 days in odd-numbered years and 30 days in even-numbered years.
He said he had "no plans, period" to get the issue on the ballot in 2006 or any time before that.
"Right now I think we want to figure out one thing, and that is how do we make government more efficient," said the Republican governor, who took office last year after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
Schwarzenegger said he hadn't seen and doubted he would support a proposed ballot issue that would ban driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, saying he wanted to continue to work with Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, to resolve the matter.
"The idea of (illegal immigrants) having the same driver's license as everyone else is the sticking point," because background checks on them are inadequate, he said. Schwarzenegger has said he wants a mark on the license that indicates the driver is not a legal resident.
New Mexico allows illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses using a "matricula consular," an identification card issued by Mexican consulates, or an individual tax identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service, as part of the required documentation.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson - a Democrat and the nation's only Hispanic governor - says the program has been a success, increasing the number of insured drivers and not causing any problems. About 14,000 such licenses were issued in the past year.
"In New Mexico they have two-and-a-half illegal immigrants. So we have 2.8 million, or something like that. It's a different issue," Schwarzenegger said.
Richardson "has to manage his state and I have to manage mine," the California governor also said.
Schwarzenegger said while stem cell research can help people and save lives, he isn't sure that Proposition 71 is "the right way to go."
"It's very clear that we are bonded out. We are at the limit of bonds, and therefore we should be fiscally responsible," he said.
Schwarzenegger himself helped add to that debt load with Proposition 57, the ballot issue voters approved in March that authorized the sale of $15 billion in bonds to pay off the state's operating deficit. The governor made passage of those bonds the centerpiece of his budget plans.
The governor also said it was unclear how the stem cell program would be managed.
"How do we know it goes into the right hands, or it doesn't just get evaporated and someone comes back two years later and says we need another $3 billion?. ... When you're governor ... you've got to see always the big picture," he said.
On Sunday, the state Republican Party voted to oppose Proposition 71, saying it would add too much to the state's debt load.
These bottom of the barrel politicos are driving me nuts. It's a toss up for me which is worse, Bush or Arnold. You'd think Bush had just won the election with some of the absolutely stupid illegal alien comments he's uttered recently.
The fact that Schwarzenegger even entertained, and perhaps he didn't, the idea of a part-time legislature is interesting. Not so if he didn't.
Maybe We have come to expect too much from our politicians.. or maybe we just ask too much of them and forget they are mere mortals as we are.
Once the mantles of power are placed upon their shoulders, many quickly forget who bestowed the electoral honor on them and responsibility for our way of life in their hands.
Some sell out, some wimp out,, some ,, well, they just get along to get along once they enter the shark tank we have allowed our government to become.
A lot of good men and women end up not being who we had hoped they would be or who they said they would be when they campaigned for their position.
All we can do is remind them whence comes their power and authority and who can take it away, maybe not tomorrow but soon enough.
A promise is a vow is a pledge,, and once broken, is not suffered well.
A government, once broken, is even more hard to endure.
Hang in there, my friend.
Thanks for the comments. I'm really tired of being disguested at our leaders all the time. I sure wish one with some intelligence and backbone would come along. I guess I'm just being unrealistic. Heh heh...
That kinda says it all, doesn't it?
The California GOP apparently isn't concerned that the "stem cell research" that the proponents really want is the embryonic kind - - you know, the kind that helps justify and legitimize the multi-billion-dollar abortion industry, AKA that big Democrat campaign-money laundromat.
No. The California Republicans say they oppose it because of the added debt. Un-friggin'-believable.
Well it was the right decision for the wrong reason. Being cheritable, because I have a negative 5000 rating when it come to the Ca republican party leadership, this is probably the best political love.
That being said, if we as conservatives ever wish to make headway in the arena of public opinion, we have to speak clearly and with conviction about our world-view in public. We can't wimp out because we don't have enough backbone to stand up for what we believe. And we can't be in a position of NOT knowing our true beliefs well enough to present them.
With the exception of Tom McClintock who has spoken up in public for what they believe. I know that some of you know I'm not a big fan of Tom's for several reasons. One is that Tom reminds me of that high school pocket protector guy who's smart and on the right track, but has the people skills of your social outcast brother-in-law.
What is it about conservatism, that we cannot field brilliant men and women with the dynamic skills of a Ronald Reagan, for public office?
It's truly depressing.
You should try whatever she's on!
Regards,
LH
Natalie Portman on the Letterman show last week, said she's sexy.
Frankly, she looks more like birth-control to me. With that picture in my mind, I'd be impotent.
Natalie Portman on the Letterman show last week, said she's sexy.
Frankly, she looks more like birth-control to me. With that picture in my mind, I'd be impotent.
part time legislators, full time morons
ROFL! :-)
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