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Thursday October 7, 2010 Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay-Sponsored “Trojan Horse” Measure on Marriage By Peter J. SmithSACRAMENTO, California, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earned muted praise from pro-family advocates last week after he vetoed a measure that one pro-family group described as a “Trojan horse” that could have helped homosexuals overturn Prop. 8 in 2012. SB 906, authored by the openly homosexual Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and supported by many homosexual groups, would have changed the Family Code to refer to “civil marriage” instead of just “marriage.” The bill also stated that no authorized religious official...

SACRAMENTO - Win re-election, clean house. The political ritual allows administrations to purge those who are burned out or blamed for past mistakes - in some cases helping them out the door - while fresh recruits take their places. As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger prepares to launch his second term, however, don't wait for the office goodbye party. It's already happened. In the months leading to Schwarzenegger's victory last week, the governor's office underwent a staffing turnover that is unprecedented in modern California politics. The thinning of Schwarzenegger's ranks after last year's failed special election has been seen anecdotally through a...

Public works bonds flounder Big spenders, other woes threaten support for infrastructure SACRAMENTO — Public-works bond supporters fear they won't have the cash to sell voters on costly infrastructure improvements because monied oil and tobacco firms fighting propositions are inflating the political television ad market. At the same time, other problems are piling up — uneven support based on regional concerns, awkward politics, the sheer size of the multibillion-dollar bond total, and disclosures that much of the money for transportation would not go directly to easing traffic congestion. "It's going to be difficult to have a voice to be heard...

It's not often you see Republicans trying to run to the left of a Democrat on environmental issues, but that's exactly where a pair of new TV ads are aimed in the gubernatorial race between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Phil Angelides. Two ads were released this morning by the California Republican Party on their website. No word yet on whether there's any real money being handed over to air these ads, or whether making a splash in the political media was the main goal. The pro-Arnold ad (see it here) uses some pretty well-known environmental issues from the Schwarzenegger era: creation...

Our Governor Arnold is having a huge, 2 million dollar fundraising lunch today in Los Angeles and who do you think the keynote speaker to launch his relection campaign is? Sen John McCain of AZ. Yup, the most corrupt senator in history is helping our"embattled" governor launch his relection bid... Arnold is just lucky the dems can only muster two major losers on there side so far - the hits keep on coming.

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders went behind closed doors Saturday in hopes of resolving the last obstacles to an agreement on the state budget.