Gov (Arnie) Says GOP Senators Are Holding Up Health Bill

[Kadie]

Aug 11, 2007 2:29 pm US/Pacific

Gov Says GOP Senators Are Holding Up Health Bill

(AP) SACRAMENTO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday accused Senate Republicans of holding up passage of a new state budget to tie up the Legislature and prevent approval of legislation that would reduce the number of Californians without health insurance.

"There are people out there ... (who) want to hang on to the status quo," the Republican governor told a televised health-care forum held in eight cities. "There are politicians in Sacramento who are holding up the budget so they don't have to go into health care reform.

"So let your legislators know how you really feel about health care reform, how much we need it," Schwarzenegger said. "It is inexcusable that someone would hold up the budget in order to make health care reform suffer."

But Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, R-Tustin, said the budget deadlock and the debate over health care reform were "totally unrelated," although members of his caucus have been critical of health care plans proposed by Schwarzenegger and Democratic lawmakers.

"The budget is not being held up because of health care," Ackerman said in a telephone interview. "Senate Republicans think that health care is important, as do most Californians."

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[warrior1]

1. republicans eathing their own

I'm glad arnie is shaming them. Not sure if it will work, and they only need one more gop person to vote so others can get paid.

[Cha]

2. arnienator sure changed his tune

since the Cal Teachers and Nurses protested his ass all over the state and it looked like he might not get to be guv in a real election.

I'm thinking he liked that first taste of guvship and wanted more..no matter how he needed to change for Cali. Wonder if Maria had any influence at all?

[Donnachaidh]

3. heh -- when is the Governator going to turn blue?

He's another weathervane. He'll join whoever is in power, just so he doesn't have to do terminator movies. :shrug:

[Cha]

5. Sounds like you've

got his number. Spielberg endorsed him so when he runs through the guvship.. stephen, who likes him so much, can cast him in his movies.

[fed-up]

4. f*cking liar-Arnie vetoed SB 840-Single Payer Universal Health Care last year-it's up again nt