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To: calcowgirl
"It's the same pork-filled package, full of non-capital items and social welfare."

...and therefore deserves a quick death at the hands of the voters.

17 posted on 05/06/2006 3:15:29 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
They have gotten even more dishonest. I was reading the affordable housing bill (SB 1689) and came across this item as the sole description for $135 Million in bonds:
(C) One hundred thirty-five million dollars ($135,000,000) shall be transferred to the fund created by subdivision (b) of Section 50517.5 to be expended for the programs authorized by Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 50517.5) of Part 2.
And, if you look at current statute, what is Section 50517.5(b)?
50517.5. (a) (1) The department shall establish the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program under which, subject to the availability of funds therefor, grants or loans, or both, shall be made to local public entities, nonprofit corporations, and limited partnerships, for the construction or rehabilitation of housing for agricultural employees and their families or for the acquisition of manufactured housing as part of a program to address and remedy the impacts of current and potential displacement of farmworker families from existing labor camps, mobilehome parks, or other housing.

(snip)

(b) (1) The Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. ...

This is the same item that was previously buried in the transportation section of the MegaBond (AB 134) Arnold was pushing in March that drew much criticism in the media and by conservatives. Language in that bill did identify it as the "Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Fund." The new language is clearly designed to NOT inform the voter.
18 posted on 05/06/2006 3:45:15 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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