Posted on 10/13/2007 2:23:10 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB-94, a special bill pushed through the legislature by Planned Parenthood to increase Medi-Cal rates for “family planning services,” the governor’s press office announced early this afternoon.
The governor’s decision to sign the measure came just a day before the legal deadline for signing or vetoing bills on his desk. Planned Parenthood affiliates across California had launched a massive PR campaign in an effort to persuade Schwarzenegger to sign the bill, which will result in the state spending another $3.2 million a year on “family planning services” -- potentially tens of millions of dollars over the next several years.
Even though Planned Parenthood’s California affiliates typically end each fiscal year with budget surpluses in the millions, SB-94, sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles, will now add additional millions to their coffers.
Every Republican in the legislature, with the exception of Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, voted against SB-94. A request to the senator’s communications director for the senator’s rationale for supporting the measure went unanswered.
In a Sept. 14 letter to the governor, Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman wrote, “it is unclear why rates for family planning services should be singled out for an increase from among the entire universe of services which Medi-Cal covers, especially when the increase was proposed at the eleventh hour of the legislative session. This proposed rate augmentation is more appropriately considered during the regular budget process.”
The governor was apparently not persuaded by the opposition of his Republican colleagues in the legislature.
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This is money to tear babies limb from limb?
Family values don’t stop at the rio grande?
A person shouldn't HAVE to be persuaded one way or another. A person should KNOW right from wrong.
The Gubernator is on a roll (your last posting), and it’s not a good one. His recent performance in office is neither flattering nor encouraging.
I remember feeling such optimism when he became Governor of that state. It seems a thousand years ago.
Planned Parenthood is only one of the hundred heads of the Population Bomb, and has been hit over and over but it is still there as strong as ever. Global Warming is from the same group.
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This is what voting for Rudy will get you, only worse.
Arnold has no core principles, neither does Rudy.
He never has been, nor has Maria or any of Arnie's liberal staff.
He started his political career as a leftist before he was ever elected, with Prop 49.
Nothing has changed.
You’ve got that right!!!
It’s sort of funny that Richard C Hoagland might be right about something he said on Coast this week. It is his opinion that the private launch programs will not be allowed beyond earth orbit. While I don’t see any reason to follow his logic in this, his conclusion is in line with my own. I see the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty as sufficently powerful to do that job, and I see the ones behind the continuation in force of that Treaty as the same ones behind the continued freeze on resource development in Alaska.
NASA doesn’t need defending. It is a FedGov agency and will conduct space programs as Public Planning decides. Even Hillary!08 intends to expand NASA’s programs and funding. They may hire private services much as State hires Blackwater in Iraq rather than using the US Army. Call it privatization, it is still public money.
That’s how it will be, and in their own good, Planned time.
Ah, Schwarzenegger. Remember a few years ago, when people were hurriedly making excuses for shortcomings? Some were even yakking about how we really ought to change that pesky Constitution to let ze Terminator be ze Prezident. My, my how time has flown. Here is a very recent example of what happens when voters don’t let their blasted logic get in the way—and it should be a parable for this election. For a number of the candidates (no, I won’t start a nice flame war by naming names) in search of the nomination, we are hearing it all over again. He didn’t mean it. Times change. Give him a chance. He was outwitting the ‘Crats (I can’t count how many times I’ve heard this one about Bush; I’m still waiting for the punch line). THIS is what you get when you reason away reason. Make politicians do their own apologetics, don’t do it for them.
Thanks for your response. I will say I’m loathe to respect any ruling that involves the U.N. I appreciate you including some of the things you did about budgets and government funded private enterprises.
Another success for Schwarzenegger supporters.
I remember when Schwarzenegger claimed to be a fiscal conservative. I guess the social liberal trumps the fiscal conservative.
Davis was a horrible Governor but the state GOP would have emerged much stronger and more conservative, and McClintock would have been the unanimous choice in 2006.
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