Posted on 12/14/2003 9:30:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:02:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was nearing midnight on Arnold Schwarzenegger's third Friday as governor when the former bodybuilder and actor faced his first legislative defeat, the rejection by Democrats of his plan to refinance the state's debt and place a new spending limit on the ballot next March. With a deadline for getting his measures on the ballot just minutes away and the outcome clear, Schwarzenegger left his office on the Capitol's first floor to visit Republican lawmakers who had stood by him through a disappointing round of negotiations.
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Agreed.
The SCOTUS and the outbreak of WWII, resulting in the nationalization of our economic engine, did alter his utopian pursuits.
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