This effort of Schwarzenegger isn’t even original. A week or two ago a state appellate court judge, famous for having done the same thing in an opinion footnote in rebuke to a fellow judge, died, and mention of his prank was included in his obituaries. Evidently someone on Schwarzenegger’s staff read one of the obits.
Bumpjon thinks this has to be a coincidence. He worked in the Governor’s Office and nobody there was smart enough to pull this off. And, while Bumpjon never actually met the Governor, Jon doubts that he’s smart enough to pull it off. Of course, as Randy said, his Bilderberger puppeteers are smart enough to do this.
The veto message is so vague and non-specific to the legislation at hand that I suspect it was written well in advance for use when Governor Schwarzenegger wanted to get back at a particularly irksome adversary, as Assemblyman Ammiano appears to be.
Well, the democrats are right to be outraged, because even if it was just a coincidence, they know for certain he was thinking it anyway. See how those republithugs are responsible for the death of civility?
As I understand it Ammiano had told Arnold to Kiss a part of Ammiano’s anatomy. Its interesting that the tape of Ammiano’s outburst would be on CNN but the words would not be mentioned in the article.
Seems a real stretch to me to read that message into his veto. You’d say “FU” not “FY.” Besides, Arnold’s message is totally correct. The legislature basically ignores everything important and instead sends the governor a steady stream of worthless pet project bills to sign. He ought to veto more of them.
This effort of Schwarzenegger isn’t even original. A week or two ago a state appellate court judge, famous for having done the same thing in an opinion footnote in rebuke to a fellow judge, died, and mention of his prank was included in his obituaries. Evidently someone on Schwarzenegger’s staff read one of the obits.
It’s been done plenty of times; I suspect the judge who included it in his opinion was not the originator. Nevertheless, it’s pretty brazen (and kind of awesome, provided it’s a one-off deal under particular circumstances – in this case, Ammiano has little claim to be treated civilly after telling the governor “kiss my gay ass”) for a governor to slip it into an official communication.
ShelbyC says:
Does the 1st line count? If so, that’s a significantly different message.
October 28, 2009, 6:44 pmRandy says:
Obviously, Arnold was just taking dictation from his Bilderberger overlords.
October 28, 2009, 6:46 pmVisitor Again says:
This effort of Schwarzenegger isn’t even original. A week or two ago a state appellate court judge, famous for having done the same thing in an opinion footnote in rebuke to a fellow judge, died, and mention of his prank was included in his obituaries. Evidently someone on Schwarzenegger’s staff read one of the obits.
October 28, 2009, 7:07 pmBumpjon says:
Bumpjon thinks this has to be a coincidence. He worked in the Governor’s Office and nobody there was smart enough to pull this off. And, while Bumpjon never actually met the Governor, Jon doubts that he’s smart enough to pull it off. Of course, as Randy said, his Bilderberger puppeteers are smart enough to do this.
October 28, 2009, 7:29 pmruuffles says:
Check his other vetos. They all have the same first two lines
October 28, 2009, 7:31 pmGordon Langston says:
He should have just vetoed all that legislation like he’d threatened in the first place.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
October 28, 2009, 8:07 pmDave N says:
The veto message is so vague and non-specific to the legislation at hand that I suspect it was written well in advance for use when Governor Schwarzenegger wanted to get back at a particularly irksome adversary, as Assemblyman Ammiano appears to be.
October 28, 2009, 8:26 pmgeokstr says:
Well, the democrats are right to be outraged, because even if it was just a coincidence, they know for certain he was thinking it anyway. See how those republithugs are responsible for the death of civility?
/sarc
October 28, 2009, 9:57 pmFedya says:
It’s been done before
October 28, 2009, 10:49 pmJames N. Gibson says:
As I understand it Ammiano had told Arnold to Kiss a part of Ammiano’s anatomy. Its interesting that the tape of Ammiano’s outburst would be on CNN but the words would not be mentioned in the article.
October 28, 2009, 11:02 pmCornellian says:
Seems a real stretch to me to read that message into his veto. You’d say “FU” not “FY.” Besides, Arnold’s message is totally correct. The legislature basically ignores everything important and instead sends the governor a steady stream of worthless pet project bills to sign. He ought to veto more of them.
October 28, 2009, 11:21 pmSarcastro says:
27×4=531,441
Math is fun!
October 29, 2009, 12:12 amProsecutorial Indiscretion says:
This effort of Schwarzenegger isn’t even original. A week or two ago a state appellate court judge, famous for having done the same thing in an opinion footnote in rebuke to a fellow judge, died, and mention of his prank was included in his obituaries. Evidently someone on Schwarzenegger’s staff read one of the obits.
It’s been done plenty of times; I suspect the judge who included it in his opinion was not the originator. Nevertheless, it’s pretty brazen (and kind of awesome, provided it’s a one-off deal under particular circumstances – in this case, Ammiano has little claim to be treated civilly after telling the governor “kiss my gay ass”) for a governor to slip it into an official communication.
October 29, 2009, 12:28 amspeedwell says:
Read the first letter of each line, not each paragraph.
October 29, 2009, 9:46 amJohn M. Perkins says:
One of the problems with official records is that formatting is often lost when technologies are migrated.
October 29, 2009, 4:48 pmNathan says:
I’m desperately trying to work this trick into my next legal writing assignment…
October 29, 2009, 8:24 pm