The court will have a full opportunity to understand why the governor and the legislature believe the state has a compelling interest in protecting children from potential harm from exposure to extremely violent video games.
Tax-and-spend rhetoric aside, California needs budget reform, because it's not a revenue problem, but a spending problem.
Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.
It's really shameful to try to exploit the death of a law enforcement officer for political purposes, as is obviously being done here.
Those tribes were two of the largest in the state. Given their unique economic needs, those were the terms of the compact.
That's not the case, and everyone knows that. This governor has had good relations with Mexican governors. He hopes to meet with President (Vicente) Fox himself at some point in the future when their schedules are convenient. But there's nothing to mend here.
They are rich, powerful tribes that don't want poor tribes to have compacts.
The governor was not able to attend due to his schedule, but he certainly expressed his condolences to the family and the entire CHP family.
The governor's main concern with the legislation as passed is the automatic indexing, ... It will only ratchet things up and will tie the government's hands and will deprive it of the flexibility to address changing economic conditions.
The governor's concern is that this bill ties government's hands and does not provide the flexibility it needs to address changing economic conditions.
