Gov Will Only Sign Budget With Reform
From the Sacramento Bee:
With the state budget overdue and California’s cash flow drying up, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that he expects Democrats and Republicans to reach a compromise quickly and bring him a spending plan by next week.
The governor also raised the bar for negotiations. Schwarzenegger said he will not agree to any budget deal that fails to include long-term reforms to help the state ride out rocky economic times.
“I will not sign a budget that doesn’t have budget reform in it, because otherwise I could not keep the promise to the people of California. I told them in 2003 that we are going to become more fiscally responsible and that we are going to go and to start living within our means,” Schwarzenegger told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
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