Posted on 01/04/2006 7:49:45 AM PST by SmithL
The centerpiece of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State address Thursday is expected to be a call for a mega-bond paying for infrastructure improvements statewide -- and if a recent poll is any indication, he may finally have a winner on his hands.
The poll conducted just before the holidays for the California Alliance for Jobs -- the state's powerful road-building lobby -- found that 58 percent of respondents would support a state infrastructure bond of up to $40 billion, while 38 percent would oppose it.
State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, and Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, are already pushing a transportation bond that could total $13 billion. Word is that the governor is looking at a $25 billion to $30 billion package that would include money not only for transportation but also for port upgrades, hospitals, schools and levees.
The state's road builders, meanwhile, are pushing a $30 billion to $40 billion measure.
The final details of any package remains to be seen, but "the public appears to be ahead of us" on the issue, Perata said, referring to the poll.
Still, it's not a slam dunk.
The statewide poll of 600 registered voters, conducted by Jim Moore Methods of Sacramento, found that the bond's success or failure could hinge on how the measure is shaped and sold to the public.
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The spending never stops in Liberal Land...and the debt on the taxpayers back just keeps increasing, as will our taxes...all for the high privilege of living in California...er, Liberal Land.
and we thought we had spending problems when the Dimwit Davis was in office...
"Vote for McClintock or Pay the Con$equence$!"
ring a bell??? LOL
We looooove borrowing money. Right there at the end of the Proposition it says "this will not create a new tax", see? It's free money!
29 years in California...........Ize seen the best, and now I seez the worst.
I almost hate to ping to this, it's so depressing when the Kool Aide drinkers show up and tell us it's all our fault.
29 years in California...........Ize seen the best, and now I seez the worst.
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Me too -- I remember when Dukemejian (sp?) was governor in the early seventies. The state was the model for the nation. Conservative governor and legislature. No financial or demographic problems. And the only time you ever heard of government bickering was when they had billions to RETURN TO THE TAXPAYERS because they did not need it!!! Imagine that today...(barf bucket please) -- and California's education system was also a national model. Top of the heap -- and today -- AT THE BOTTOM!!!
I wonder what changed? (chuckle -- as if we do not know).
Yeah, we know, and it is damned sad to be living through it. I have my exis strategy, and I fervently hope you do as well.
The extra e on Aid in Kool Aide makes me think you're referring to the FRench wing of the CA GOP. ;-)
The only good thing I can say for Arnold is that a democrat as governor would be worse. But the gap is narrowing rapidly.
Would be nice if they surrendered.
I wonder what changed? (chuckle -- as if we do not know).
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migration of easterners? most of them from New York state, and their subsequent election to state offices, would be my offering.
Wow. Big-spending Republicans. There's a shock.
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