Posted on 06/16/2010 6:51:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Chinese company to pay for Schwarzenegger's trade mission to Asia
A gap in the new contributions law allows him to use a $550,000 donation because he was not the specified recipient.
By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times
June 16, 2010
Reporting from Advertisement
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't letting a new rule limiting gifts to public officials put a crimp in his globetrotting ways.
Instead, administration officials are availing themselves of a gap in state regulations to use a $550,000 gift from a Chinese company to pay for an upcoming trade mission to Asia.
On Thursday, the state Fair Political Practices Commission implemented a $420 limit on private contributions to nonprofits like the one the governor has used for years to pay for private jets and luxury hotel rooms on trips to Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Any such contribution earmarked to benefit a particular public official is subject to the new cap.
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And Arnie is a RINO’s RINO.
Beats hell out of using taxpayer money to do the same thing.
Why not? We will give California to China as payment for out debt. And, to hear the Hollywood scum, they will be a lot happier there.
The clock is ticking on aRnie and California..
Tell him to stay there.
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