Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Mar 13, 2006 Comments Off on Live – Bond Negotiation Update
Your FlashReport “cub reporter” is actually at the State Capitol
today. I was going to search out someone that could give me an
update on how the ‘Big 5’ negotiations are going on the BIG BOND$
Infrastructure Plan. Well, just now I stepped off of the elevator
on the first floor of the Capitol, and found lead Assembly
Republican negotiator on this package, Rick Keene.
To make a long story short, Keene was telling about 15 reporters
that, despite good faith efforts by Governor Schwarzenegger, the
Democrats continue to want to load up the package “like a Christmas
tree loaded with ornaments” – Keene said that Republicans are still
very interested in helping a common-sense infrastructure plan come
forward, but that right now there is no agreement.
We’ll see how it goes – but I am proud of Keene and our GOP
legislators for holding a firm line for fiscal sanity!… Read More