This morning over at the Capitol Weekly, they have a short item where they list those legislators who have authored the most bills that currently are sitting on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk, awaiting either his signature, his veto, or his non-action (which would result in them becoming law).
Sixteen legislators together have 210 bills out of the 700 or so on the Governor’s desk.
FlashReport readers are welcome to take a guess here — how many of those sixteen legislators are Republican?
If you answered ZERO you would be correct.
We once again express our hope that the Governor will just veto all of the bills on his desk. Sure, there are a few bills that are okay, but by and large California would be better off if the entire final product of this legislature session was torpedoed.
We support nuking the package based on the substance of the bills themselves. But we are okay if he votoes them for the very fair reason that he doesn’t have time to review them while he is busy trying to get Capitol Democrats to agree to a reasonable water solution for the state — one that gets water to people and businesses to solve the problem — but that does not contain massive environmental spending that is not necessary at this time (trying to pass a bond measure in a recession will be hard enough without the pork).
VETO VETO VETO!