Posted on 09/09/2009 10:40:00 AM PDT by SmithL
In the latest round of Capitol brinksmanship, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill honoring Vietnam veterans and threatened to kill 72 other proposals on his desk because he said lawmakers have ignored his priority issues.
The Senate withdrew all of its 43 bills from the Republican governor's desk for temporary safekeeping. But in an act of defiance, the Assembly left on his desk a bill that would designate March 30 as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
"I dare the governor to veto this bill," said Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico, D-Newark, before the close of Tuesday's session.
Shortly afterward, Schwarzenegger accepted the dare and vetoed Assembly Bill 264.
"Our state is facing significant challenges, including the need for comprehensive changes in our policies on water, energy, and corrections and the need to take meaningful steps to stimulate the economy and rein in the rising levels of unemployment," Schwarzenegger wrote in his veto message. "This bill does nothing to address any of these issues. I look forward to considering this measure when these other major issues are addressed."
Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, a Vietnam veteran who co-authored AB 264 and wears a Marine Corps pin on his lapel, said he was "dismayed and angry."
"This is something that is long overdue and it's something I feel very, very strongly about," Cook said. "And (a veto) just shows no respect for all those veterans."
Schwarzenegger issued his threat earlier Tuesday against 43 bills in the Senate and 30 in the Assembly to gain leverage while his biggest priorities hang in the balance.
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No, a veto shows no respect for the Cali legislature, tho' maybe too late to matter.
Wow, Schwarzenegger will actually veto a bill? What a profile in courage Schwarzenegger is!
Ummmm... I came home from Nam on July 27, 1969. I got a welcome..... 40 years of being depicted as a potential psychopath by liberals. Kalif legislators can keep their f&&&ing welcome. Then they can go suck cyanide for all I care. I left that pesthole of a State for the free air of Utah 27 years ago. Kalif can KMA and fall in the ocean.
Is Ahhnold actually growing some?
March 30 as “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.” “I dare the governor to veto this bill,”
Vietnam was 30 years ago, as a vet I see no reason to continue to live in the past.
Clearly the CA leadership is in no condition to manage current affairs or work on our future.
Schwartzenegger is no conservative, but he's vetoed plenty of bills, including one that would include teaching "homosexuals of note" in schools, and I think thee was one which tried to legislate homosexual marriage, and tax increase attempts. If he says he'll veto a bill, he will and I applaud him for that.
Come on. Tell us how you really feel about California. LOL! I live in California, and am now looking for a place to retire - somewhere with some actual conservative leadership. I don’t think I could survive Alaska; maybe Texas or Utah.
I bet he vetoes the “Baby Milk factory” bill as well
No, there must be an election coming up. Fake right then move left.
I don’t really know what Schwarzenegger is, nor at this point do I particularly care.
Assembly comes up with 43 Bills, and none address the problems in CA, means that they have too much time on their hands, and the CA Legislature should go back to a “Part Time Legislature”, then they wouldn’t have the time to come up with License’s for illegals, or other nonsense.
Sounds like he is standing on principle and for that he should be commended. Obviously he's sending a message to the legislature and will pass the bill at a later time. I for one like seeing a politician with a spine.
It's a shame he didn't undergo that spine transplant when it really would have mattered. Schwarzenegger is threatening to do what some people thought was impossible, once upon a time: he's threatening to make Gray Davis into an object of nostalgia.
But I seem to remember several boatloads of people around here (not including yourself) yapping that Schwarzenegger was the. best. and. most. electable. shot. we'd. get. at. Beige. Davis., never mind that the signs were well enough in evidence that he just might go precisely the way he has when all was done and too much said, and the very viable Tom McClintock was there for the running against an incumbent who wouldn't have survived if he'd been challenged by a baby in a carriage, such had been the state into which Davis had driven himself and California.
So California got Mr. "Electable" . . . and the evidence is there for one and all to see. How's that one working out, gang?
Using veterans as political pawns is the outrageous. Shame on the Governor and Torrico. He should have made a statement condeming the dare and then signed the bill. Torrico needs to be removed for making the challenge. Remember him when his time is up. Let ‘em both know that they were wrong!
Torrico Tel: (916) 319-2020
Governor’s Phone: 916-445-2841
I fully understand what he was doing, but in so doing he used the vets as pawns. Shame on both the Governor and Torrico.
Torrico Tel: (916) 319-2020
Governor’s Phone: 916-445-2841
I’m a vet too, but this wasn’t so much about vets as Democrats using vets as pawns. They were betting that he wouldn’t veto it because it was the vets. Shame on both for using vets.
How many threads are you going to troll?
Thank you for your service to our country, sir.
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