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  • Schwarzenegger composes his own 'napkin' deal

    01/24/2004 9:51:06 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 193+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/24/04 | Gary Delsohn - Sac Bee
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (McCLATCHY) - No one can accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of not being able to work a room. The new governor was at Frank Fat's restaurant the other night for the annual Chinese New Year celebration and unveiled his own "napkin deal" with Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, the San Francisco Democrat who'll have a lot to say about the final shape of Schwarzenegger's budget proposal. Fat's was scene of a famous 1987 tort "reform" deal sketched on a tablecloth and later copied to a napkin so senators could see details the following day. "I agree to support Proposition...
  • Dan Walters: It's 15 years later, and another skirmish in Capitol tort wars looms

    08/16/2002 7:40:07 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 177+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 8/16/02 | Dam Walters - Sac Bee Columnist
    <p>In the closing hours of the 1987 state legislative session, lobbyists for major business and professional groups, insurance companies and personal injury attorneys put together what came to be known as the "napkin deal," so named for the Frank Fat's restaurant napkin on which its provisions were recorded.</p>