{"id":9797,"date":"2009-08-07T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-07T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:54:11","slug":"who-will-step-up-and-sue-over-arnolds-illegal-vetoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/who-will-step-up-and-sue-over-arnolds-illegal-vetoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Step Up And Sue Over Arnold&#8217;s Illegal Vetoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9782\/legislative-analyst-arnolds-vetoes-are-unconstitutional\">Legislative Counsel&#8217;s Opinion yesterday<\/a> saying the Governor&#8217;s &#8220;blue pencil&#8221; vetoes of $500 million of spending, there was a loud chorus of &#8220;Amen&#8221; from the Legislators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This clearly reinforces what we believe all along,&#8221; said Assemblyman John P\u00e9rez (D-Los Angeles), who requested the legislative counsel&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) said it underscored her feeling that Schwarzenegger&#8217;s line-item vetoes &#8220;are as unconstitutional as they are unconscionable.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-schwarzenegger-vetoes6-2009aug06,0,2136461.story\">LAT 8\/5\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the question is who will be the group that steps up and sues to restore funding, and just how soon that case can be filed. There have been whispers of a few groups and non-profits gathering together to file in the beginning of next week. We&#8217;ll get back to you when we hear more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9782\/legislative-analyst-arnolds-vetoes-are-unconstitutional\">Legislative Counsel&#8217;s Opinion yesterday<\/a> saying the Governor&#8217;s &#8220;blue pencil&#8221; vetoes of $500 million of spending, there was a loud chorus of &#8220;Amen&#8221; from the Legislators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This clearly reinforces what we believe all along,&#8221; said Assemblyman John P\u00e9rez (D-Los Angeles), who requested the legislative counsel&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) said it underscored her feeling that Schwarzenegger&#8217;s line-item vetoes &#8220;are as unconstitutional as they are unconscionable.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-schwarzenegger-vetoes6-2009aug06,0,2136461.story\">LAT 8\/5\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the question is who will be the group that steps up and sues to restore funding, and just how soon that case can be filed. There have been whispers of a few groups and non-profits gathering together to file in the beginning of next week. We&#8217;ll get back to you when we hear more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[7699,782],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","tag-7699","tag-782"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2y1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}