Stop jokes and negotiate, Assembly speaker tells Schwarzenegger

[Kadie]

Stop jokes and negotiate, Assembly speaker tells Schwarzenegger
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, February 22, 2005


(02-22) 18:49 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


It's time for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to knock off the jokes from his old movies, get off the campaign stump, and start negotiating with lawmakers over what seems to be an inevitable special election this fall on issues as sweeping as redistricting and public pension reform, the Assembly's top Democrat said Tuesday.


"The time for name-calling and bad jokes is over," said Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, referring to the actor-turned-governor who last year labeled lawmakers "girlie-men" when they failed to do his bidding.


Schwarzenegger's spokeswoman Margita Thompson responded that, "The speaker is an emblem for old-style politics that don't get anything done and don't reform the system."


The governor is preparing to collect signatures for a series of ballot measures to put before voters this fall, a process both sides say is now inevitable even as Nunez decried the estimated $70 million cost for a special election.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/02/22/state/n184933S97.DTL

[oasis]

1. You stopped being funny a long time ago, you egomaniac.

[98geoduck]

2. It's about time someone stood up to this bafoon. He's second in idiocy

only to *

[donheld]

3. God forbid Ah-nuld finds out this is not an acting role.

Maybe he doesn't realize he really has to do the work of Governor himself. Sorry Ah-nuld, there are no stunt doubles it that line of work.

[AgadorSparticus]

4. hey gropenator, quit being a "girlie-man": put up or shut up!!

[zann725]

5. Better yet, go back to Austria...where at least THEY understand you.

n/t