Governor, Now That The Legislative Session Is Over, Campaign For Down Ticket Republicans
Following up on FR Bay Area Correspondent Jennifer Nelson’s illustrative commentary yesterday morning, I’m going to reveal my observations about the end of the legislative session and the activities of the Governor’s pen.
At the top of the main page today is a story by the Los Angeles Daily News titled "Governor kills fewer measures." In it, the Daily News declares that the Governor only vetoed twenty-two percent of the bills that reached his desk this year, a startlingly low percentage of vetoes for a Republican governor with a Democrat legislature.
An exerpt:
Schwarzenegger signed 910 bills this year and vetoed 262, or 22 percent of the total sent to his desk. In both of his first two years in office, he averaged a veto rate of 24 percent.… Read More