Of the things you fight, you'd assume that money for children in foster care would be pretty low on your battle list. But, the Assembly Senate Republicans fight to make sure not one more dime goes to those damn kids. I mean, they've got enough already, those dern foster care rich kids
Their uneasy coexistence with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now at the lowest point in his tenure, Republican state lawmakers are rebelling in increasingly public ways over administration efforts both big and small.
GOP state senators refused Thursday to sign off on the administration's request to pay for cost overruns in the state's foster care system. Republican objections to Schwarzenegger's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year all but guarantee that the state will miss its Saturday deadline for putting a new spending plan in place.[(LA Times 6/29/07) ]
Oh, you mean foster kids aren't rich? Oh...right. So, the GOP finally realizes that Arnold has sold them out, or well, at least he wasn't who they expected him to be. Welcome to the club Mr. Villines Ackerman, I think Bill Lockyer is waiting for you at Table 2. |
