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Governor wants $11 bil. water bond off California ballot


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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times

SACRAMENTO — After an exhausting political fight to put an $11.1-billion plan for shoring up the state’s water supply before voters, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now wants to yank the measure from the November ballot.

The governor is working with legislative leaders to postpone the water bond proposal as its prospects appear increasingly dim. Polls suggest voters may not have the appetite for such borrowing at a time when the state budget is in continuing crisis.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

And the governor’s vow to aggressively fight another measure on the November ballot, one that would roll back the landmark global warming bill he signed in 2006, threatens to distract from the effort to get the water bond passed.

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  1. dogwoman says - Posted: July 1, 2010

    Arnie could go down in history as California’s worst governor. He started out with so much promise, but has shown that he doesn’t have a clue. He wants it all and he wants it now and he wants to be loved. Politics doesn’t work that way.

  2. H says - Posted: July 1, 2010

    He sucks….The man another immigrant that needs to head home.