Political statement absurdities are always abundant. However, this statement recently caught my attention.
From Bloomberg:
"Nov. 12-- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, citing a $25.4 billion budget gap over the next 19 months, declared a fiscal emergency and called lawmakers to a special session next month to begin dealing with the problem.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican whose term ends in January, late yesterday ordered the session to start Dec. 6, the day newly elected legislators are sworn in....
By Jan. 10, Governor-elect Jerry Brown, a Democrat who will be sworn in Jan. 3, must propose a plan to erase the next year’s deficit... “This special session underscores the enormous challenges facing the state,” Evan Westrup, a spokesman for Brown, said yesterday in a statement. “While the governor-elect did not create this fiscal crisis, he and his transition team will continue the work they started after election day, collaborating with administration and department of finance officials, the legislative analyst’s office, legislators, and others to address California’s budget problems.”
Wow! Didn't create it, huh? Really? A man who's last two jobs were State Attorney General, and Mayor of Oakland since 1999 and doesn't take office until January 2011, didn't create the state's financial crisis? NO ****!?!?! Why? Why preface your official public statement with such an obvious fact, but for the ability to START your term telling everyone, "it's not my fault!"
Consider this my official statement (I unfortunately, do not have a spokesperson ... yet):
"While Mr. Moore is not a resident nor governing official of the state, and thereby in no way responsible for the California fiscal crisis, he will make every effort to stimulate the California economy when there."
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