Posted on 10/12/2009 10:40:59 PM PDT by americanophile
Reporting from Sacramento - This had been Sacramento's lost year, a stretch marked by a budget meltdown and hyper-partisan rancor, mass veto threats and mounting public distrust of state government as usual.
But as the curtain dropped, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger performed as he has for half a dozen years in office: predictably unpredictable.
After threatening a mass veto to spur a big water deal, the governor reversed course, revved up his ballpoint pen and signed a surprising slate of legislation. It included bills he had vetoed in the past and a flurry of measures that steered sharply away from the socially conservative Republican base the governor has rarely embraced.
He outraged conservative Christians by approving a special day of recognition for slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk. He crossed the powerful National Rifle Assn. by signing stricter new rules for ammunition sales. To the ire of anti-tax groups, he backed a $2.3-billion Medi-Cal funding bill. Schwarzenegger even went along with measures he once ridiculed, including a ban on amputating cow tails and creating an official blueberry commission.
And in the final hours, the GOP governor backed down from his threat to kill scores of measures if lawmakers failed to forge a landmark deal to fix California's water problems
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yup. I was wrong. Davis would have been better than the Austrian Chump.
That isn't english. How can his "base" be the people who hate him the most? These reporters have twisted themselves into knots.
Remember when they said we HAD to vote for RINO’s because.... because.... I don’t remember. I don’t care to. I just hope we never hear that argument again.
...it’s the Republican base, but it’s not Arnold’s. His base is a curious mix of disaffected Democrats, liberal Republicans, and everyone who thought it would be cool to have the Terminator as governor.
You mean Arnold Schwartzenkennedy?
We have to get passed the self-fulfilling prophecy that only liberal Republicans can get elected in California. Until we elect a McClintock-type to a major statewide office, it will be regarded as an immutable political rule here.
I'm still seeing that argument, including here on FR. Especially from those pushing Mitt Romney.
yeah, looks like his wife won the argument last night.
We know how low Mitt can go. Arnold just surpassed it.
Just be thankful he’s not legally qualified to hold the Presidency! But for CA, they got ‘the government they deserve’. And that’s NOT trying to be sarcastic.
yitbos
USA: the country that can wreck Paradise.
he signed AB 962. That’s all I need to know
I am sick to death of Kay Bailey and hutchinson and Perry in Texas, they are NOT very conservative at all. blech
We're hearing right now. There's still a large segment of conservative freepers who are of the "RINOs are acceptable if they run in blue states" mindset. After Jeffords, Chafee, Specter, Schwarzenegger.. they just never learn. Now we "have" to vote for socialist Mark Kirk so we can get a "Republican" in Obama's Senate seat. The only thing they'll accomplish by doing is help Obama make his marxist agenda "bipartisan" with more RINO Senators, but oh well.
Nails in the Coffin.
Those must be the people supporting the liberal Republicans in NJ, Florida and California right now too.
Gun groups, meanwhile, assailed the governor’s approval of AB 962 by Assemblyman Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles). It requires sellers of handgun ammunition, starting in 2011, to keep a log of sales information, including the buyer’s thumbprint, signature and driver’s license data.
“We think it was a devastating mistake,” said Paredes of Gun Owners of California, which boasts a membership of 30,000.
Ammunition buyers, he said, are now “going to be treated like registered sex offenders.”
My thanks to FReeper rolling_stone for posting this on another thread.
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am signing Assembly Bill 962.
This measure would require vendors of handgun ammunition to keep a log of information on
handgun ammunition sales, store ammunition in a safe and secure manner, and require the faceto-
face transfer of ammunition sales.
Although I have previously vetoed legislation similar to this measure, local governments have
demonstrated that requiring ammunition vendors to keep records on ammunition sales improves
public safety. These records have allowed law enforcement to arrest and prosecute persons who
have no business possessing firearms and ammunition: gang members, violent parolees, second
and third strikers, and even people previously serving time in state prison for murder.
Utilized properly, this type of information is invaluable for keeping communities safe and preventing
dangerous felons from committing crimes with firearms.
Moreover, this type of recordkeeping is no more intrusive for law abiding citizens than similar
laws governing pawnshops or the sale of cold medicine.
Unfortunately, even the most successful
local program is flawed; without a statewide law, felons can easily skirt the record keeping
requirements of one city by visiting another. Assembly Bill 962 will fix this problem by
mandating that all ammunition vendors in the state keep records on ammunition sales.
As Governor, I have sought the appropriate balance between public safety and the right to keep
and bear arms. I have signed important public safety measures to regulate the sale and transfer
of .50 caliber rifles, instituted the California Firearms License Check program, and promoted the
use of microstamping technology in handguns.
I have also vetoed many pieces of legislation that
sought to place unreasonable restrictions and burdens on firearms dealers and ammunition
vendors. Assembly Bill 962 reasonably regulates access to ammunition and improves public
safety without placing undue burdens on consumers.
For these reasons, I am pleased to sign this bill.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yeah, it's called Mexico.
Look at the map, Schwarzenegger.
Easy to get ammo from adjacent states.
If you can’t keep dope out of CA, how the hell are you going to keep a legal product out?
Keep it up, Schwarzenegger. CA is fast on the way to destruction and the speed just picked up.
This certainly is a clear demonstration of what happens when we vote for anyone that does not have an absolutely clear position and a proven position on the major issues.
This should doom all rinos.
Arnie fails to mention AB962 bans the mail-order sale of handgun ammunition. This is going to make it difficult to get less common calibers, high-end match target loads and other ammunition that is not routinely stocked by retail shops. The paperwork and other requirements it places on sellers may drive some of them out of the ammo business altogether.
There are work-arounds (buying in a neighboring state or having ammo shipped to a local FFL for pickup) , but this will be costly and inconvenient.
This is a futile attempt to control the 0.0001% of ammo that is criminally misused each year by stomping on the rights of the law-abiding users of the other 99.9999% (the latter is probably the real intent of the bills author and supporters).
you need a barf alert on a post like that
I did throw up in my mouth a little bit while reading it.
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