J. Clark Kelso, federal receiver for prison health care, rejects criticism of his $8 billion construction plan by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials.
Posted on 01/29/2009 9:16:14 AM PST by SmithL
The state brought a new dimension Wednesday to the legal struggle over prison health care reform with a motion to get rid of the court-appointed receiver and his proposed $8 billion construction plan.
At a Capitol news conference, Attorney General Jerry Brown, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate and Department of Finance Director Michael Genest said the receiver, J. Clark Kelso, has done a lot of good things but is no longer needed.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed in with a lengthy prepared statement backing them up. But his remarks at a Press Club luncheon were far more blunt.
"The receiver will never get that money; that is important to know," the governor said at the luncheon. "Because I will not give it to him. I think the controller will not give it to him. And I don't think the legislators will give it to him.
"I think it's the right thing for the attorney general to do today," Schwarzenegger said.
The governor said he has asked Kelso "over and over to be part of the team and to work together with the legislative leaders, to work together with the attorney general, to work together with our office and with everyone. And he refused to do that. So therefore, I think he is really an obstacle to getting things done and providing health care for the inmates."
U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson of San Francisco, who presides over the health care lawsuit and who appointed Kelso, has threatened to hold Schwarzenegger and Controller John Chiang in contempt if the state doesn't cough up a $250 million down payment on the $8 billion. Brown has taken that issue to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear arguments Feb. 12.
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J. Clark Kelso, federal receiver for prison health care, rejects criticism of his $8 billion construction plan by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials.
A real pretty picture. Just another fine example of what happens when liberalism and liberals get hold of something. It always turns to $%#@. These fools just continue to bury Taxifornia, in a pile of debt and liberal disaster.
Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
If the govenor and the liberals in california were to cut loose the illegal immigrants and keep them from raping the tresury then he will be able to cut his budget.
Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
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Actually, until the STATE is dead — and that is not far away. Thanks to the idiot liberals who have spent this state into oblivion.
There's plenty of foolishness in CA, no argument. But what will it take to make CA critics realize that this order came from a FEDERAL judge? So did the order that flouted the voters' will over Proposition 187. That was the proposition that would have outlawed the use of taxpayer funds for services to illegal immigrants.
The game in CA is rigged. My little town is scheduled to receive one of Kelso's billion-dollar criminal "gifts." The people here don't want it but right now it's being rammed down our throats with no recourse. I've been an outspoken critic of both Schwarzenneger and Brown but they're on the side of the Angels on this issue. I'm behind them all the way!
I don't see why this wouldn't work, everything else in government is up for sale all the way up to a U.S. Senate seat.
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