Posted on 07/20/2004 9:19:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sacramento -- In publicly railing against legislative Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has increasingly referred to the political bogeymen that played a key role in getting him elected: special interests.
Schwarzenegger, who promised to sweep the Capitol of influential campaign contributors, charged Sunday that trial lawyers, unions and other special interests were "dug in" at the Capitol "like Alabama ticks, and we cannot get rid of them."
But as an ever-lengthening state budget fight has come to focus on rather obscure disputes involving a new labor law and school busing, Democrats are blasting back at the governor and Republican lawmakers for pushing the agenda of big business and even one private bus company.
Schwarzenegger has used the term "special interest'' as a dirty word. But Capitol observers say the governor, who has collected millions of dollars in contributions from business, is using a selective definition.
"Special interest, for him, is anyone who disagrees with you,'' said Bob Stern, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles.
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Ohhhhhhhh. And RATS never use that phrase, eh?
Who is the girly-man who wrote this story?
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