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CA: Gutless then, gutless now - (legislative 'efficiency' hearings steered clear of state bloat)
OC Register ^ | 4/6/04 | Jill Stewart

Posted on 04/06/2004 7:17:10 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/14/2004 10:06:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Did you hear the one about how Sacramento buys $36,000 wheelchairs for the disabled when less expensive wheelchairs work fine? Or how legislators slipped $266,000 in the budget for their own meals because $125 a day for food and housing didn't satisfy their finer tastes?


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bloat; calgov2002; effciency; gutless; hearings; now; then
Editorial director's note: We'd like to welcome Jill Stewart - an award-winning columnist and investigative reporter and perhaps California's pre-eminent scourge of bad government - to our roster of op-ed contributors.
1 posted on 04/06/2004 7:17:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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2 posted on 04/06/2004 7:17:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Become a FR Monthly Donor ... Kerry thread archive @ /~normsrevenge)
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3 posted on 04/06/2004 7:19:54 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Don't be a nuancy boy)
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To: NormsRevenge
I would like to remind the CA Repellican Party of a little song I remember: "Don't let the stars get in your eyes, don't let the moon break your heart..."
4 posted on 04/06/2004 7:45:05 AM PDT by SierraWasp (John Fallujah Kerry! Now we REALLY know what HE meant, by "Bring... It... On!!!" He sure DID!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed big program cuts...

Myth

5 posted on 04/06/2004 5:09:24 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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