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EXECUTIVE ORDER B-06-11

4-26-2011

WHEREAS the Governor’s 2011-12 budget proposes to close the state’s structural budget deficit in part through increased efficiency that will substantially reduce state operational expenses; and

WHEREAS since the beginning of this Administration, Executive Orders and other directives have been issued to restrict hiring in state government, drastically reduce the number of state cell phones and vehicles, and stop spending taxpayer dollars on free giveaway and gift items; and

WHEREAS the Governor’s 2011-12 budget proposes to cut state operational expenses by reducing discretionary expenditures and increasing efficiency; and

WHEREAS restricting both in-state and out-of-state travel to only non-discretionary purposes will further reduce operational expenditures.    Read more »

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From the Desk of the Editor —

As is so often the case, the chief correspondent of California’s Capitol finds himself in error.

Recently, he was gabbling about how “cool” — to use his routinely inarticulate language — it was to become a friend of former Gov. George Deukmejian on Facebook.

Among the elements comprising this “coolness” were that the former GOP governor is 83 years old but hip enough to use social media and that thisFacebook presence was somehow illustrative of  Deukmejian’s deeply relaxed attitude, engendered partly by excising what he calls the last frustration in his life  — golf.    Read more »

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Don’t See Many Letters Like This Anymore — In Fact, Don’t See Many Letters

To The Honorable C. A. Robins, Idaho Governor

11/28/47

Dear Gov:

Thanks for the potatoes. Would have thought you’d have stuck a piece of butter in each one. They were very nice potatoes. I wish all governors would acquire the habit of sending me their state’s best known product. In that way I might get a DeSoto from Michigan and a quart of Old Taylor from Kentucky.    Read more »

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Whilst Rendering Unto the IRS and the FTB What Shouldn’t Be Theirs, Consider…

Two Glasses of Wine

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.    Read more »

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Wouldn’t News Be If the Committee Put Students Last?

Senate Health Committee Votes to Put Students First

Epilepsy Treatment Legislation from Senator Huff Passes Final Senate Policy Test

SACRAMENTO: The Senate Health Committee has voted to approve legislation that will help protect nearly 94,000 California children who suffer from epilepsy. SB 161, authored by Senator Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), would authorize all California school districts to provide school employee volunteers with emergency medical training to provide emergency medical assistance to pupils with epilepsy who suffer a seizure while on campus.    Read more »

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Mercifully, No Threat Posed to Roads, Interstates, Bike Paths, Rail Lines or Tarmacs

Governor Brown’s Prison Plan Jeopardizes Safety of Streets

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 5, 2011  CONTACT: Nghia Nguyen Demovic @ 916.307.9955 cell

Sacramento – Author of the nation’s toughest child protection law, Jessica’s Law, Senator Sharon Runner issued the following statement on the Governor’s signing of Assembly Bill 109 to shift the responsibility of incarceration from the state to the 58 counties:

“With the stroke of his pen, the Governor has ignited a public safety time bomb.    Read more »

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Paging Bob Beverly and Ralph Dills, Please Come Immediately to the Senate Rostrum, Your Services Are Urgently Required

The state Senate has traditionally been the more decorous, less strident house of California’s Legislature. Republicans and Democrats tended to tilt mightily as adversaries but not engage in the sniping or juvenile one-upmanship antics of the more fractious Assembly.

Regrettably, with the advent of term limits, most senators are now graduates, if that’s the correct term, of the Assembly.    Read more »

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Based on the Qualifications, It’s No Surprise They’re Ineligible

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Chris Norby, the Assembly’s Poet Laureate, Waxes Fulsome

This is a portion of the Irvine Republican’s electronically promulgated Norby Notes 4 from early March 2011 — with annotation:

My weekly Monday flight from Orange County to Sacramento was particularly spectacular as the wintery majesty of our Golden State below gives no hint of the paralysis of its government.    Read more »

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When Exactly Did “Signs” Become “Signage?”

Did it happen about the time when “toilet paper” became “bathroom tissue” and used cars became “previously owned automobiles?”

Or was it more recently when previously owned became too long and got shortened to “pre-owned?”

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