UPDATE(02) 10-30-09 SCHWARZENEGGER: TRUST ME -- IT'S A COINCIDENCE
The Sacramento Bee is reporting ...
"It may be highly improbable mathematically, but Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that the encoded profanity contained in one of his veto messages was 'a wild coincidence.'"
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the Republican governor said: 'That was a total coincidence. It was one of those wild coincidences.' The first letter in seven lines of the message, when read from top to bottom, combine to spell out 'F• you.' Schwarzenegger sent the letter to Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who earlier had told the governor to 'kiss my gay a• .'"
Yeah Right. And you're a conservative republican!
UPDATE(01) 10-29-09 ODDS OF MISTAKE: ONE IN TEN MILLION!
The Sacramento Bee is reporting ...
"So what exactly are the odds that the acrostic epithet embedded in the governor's veto message to Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano was actually a "strange coincidence"?
San Francisco Weekly's Ashley Harrell asked some math professors to calculate the statistical probability that the start of those seven consecutive lines would randomly spell the profane phrase. According to number crunching by University of San Francisco math department chair Steve Devlin, that chance comes down to about one in 10 million. 'I was very friendly to our governor, here,' Devlin told Harrell."
Did anybody really believe that this was unintentional?
Original Blog Entry ...
In the midst of a severe economic crisis that may bankrupt the formerly-golden state of California … and after passing one of the largest, if not the largest tax increase in California history, it is disgusting that the partisan politicos are willing pot shots at each other while screwing over Californians.
It may have started when Willie Brown, the former Mayor of San Francisco and Assembly Speaker, asked Arnold Schwarzenegger to say a few words at democrat function.
The Governor was heckled severely with one attendee screaming out “Kiss my faggot ass.”
It was widely reported that openly gay San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano was said to have “told California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to ‘kiss my gay ass’ when the Republican governor made an appearance at a Democratic fundraiser in an attempt to convince Democrats to lower in home care giver nurses salaries to minimum wage.” <Source>
Hear what was said for yourself …
Tit for Tat …
So it is no surprise that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of Ammiano’s Assembly Bill AB1176, which passed unanimously in both the Assembly and Senate, contained a coded message.
It would be a surprising coincidence, almost beyond belief, if the first letter of each of the lines of the Governor’s veto message accidently spelled out a message to Ammiano.
With economic consequences …
Child’s play is one thing, profligate democrat spending is another … but A.B. 1176 would have allowed the Port of San Franciso the expanded authority to redevelop a former shipyard into a new neighborhood to be known as Pier 70.
| A.B. 1176 Existing law specifically authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts, adopt infrastructure financing plans for those districts, and issue bonds financed by projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to fund certain public facilities, pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing property tax law establishes various procedures and requirements with respect to the annual apportionment and allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, including increased revenues from infrastructure financing districts. This bill would recast these provisions authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts that include specified waterfront property. This bill would also modify the procedures for San Francisco to adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and allocate projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to specified annual apportionments. |
While it is possible that this was a special interest bill, carried to politicians by self-interested developers, it also might have meant a number of new construction and follow-on jobs for out-of-work Californians.
Bottom line …
Politics in California is a lose-lose game: each side attempts to screw the Citizens of California while pursuing their personal and political self-interests.
It is time that we take action and impose citizen term limits by throwing the bums, all of the bums, out of office. I am working on a concept which might guarantee that Californians will win in the future – no matter which party prevails at the ballot box. Perhaps we should follow the Illinois model for politicians: limit each politician to two terms: one in office, followed by one in prison.
My message to Schwarzenegger and Ammiano: grow up and perform your official duties and respect your fiduciary responsibility to California.
-- steve
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