CA: Streamlining plan waits in the wings

Sac Bee ^ | 6/29/04 | Margaret Talev

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A report recommending hundreds of ways to streamline state government is ready, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will keep it under wraps until lawmakers pass a budget, so as not to derail an agreement, an administration official said Monday.

"Essentially, it's complete," communications director Rob Stutzman said of the California Performance Review report due Wednesday. "We don't want people playing politics with it, is what it boils down to.

"It deserves more than that, and God knows we'll get out of here a lot quicker this week if we don't give legislators something to play with."

The governor did, however, release the names of the 21 people he tapped to serve on a commission that will hold public hearings across the state beginning in August.

They include several advisers to former Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican like Schwarzenegger, but also several Democrats and an array of experts in education, business, labor and law enforcement.

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.. "We don't want people playing politics with it, is what it boils down to."

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lol

Leland Yee, the "feng shui" dude is one of the commssion members. ;-\

Yes, Anothe commission, to study and sell folks on eliminating other commissions, state boards and agencies.

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It will be interesting to see if Arnold's pledge to blow up the boxes really gets anywhere.

[NormsRevenge]

It will be interesting if the voters can see that shrinking and elimination of government can be a good thing, and at this point, in hock up to our wallets, they should be jumping up and down for moreof the same.

The 'Rats will be loud and vociferous, of course, and lie like the dickens how important all these bureaucracies are necessary.

Don't believe it!

When gubmint and said parties within make it become an all-consuming beast, ungrateful and overintrusive in all facets of life, then it is time to banish it to the realms of ancient history.