Wednesday, September 17, 2008

California News Roundup - September 17, 2008

Poll: Palin no lure to California independents -- GOP presidential candidate John McCain is getting stronger support among California Republicans for his pick of VP candidate Sarah Palin, but he is not gaining ground on Democrat Barack Obama among the fast-growing armies of independent and decline-to-state voters in the state, according to a new Field Poll.


Governor to veto state budget -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised Tuesday he will veto a state budget that state lawmakers had approved hours earlier, saying the plan is flawed and would create an even worse fiscal crisis for California next year.


Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger finally finds some backbone -- Arnold Schwarzenegger has talked a good game about ending "crazy deficit spending" for five years, but he's been curiously unwilling to confront the Legislature over the state's hopelessly tangled budget.


Dan Weintraub: Budget veto will send a strong message -- When he vetoes the new state budget approved by the Legislature in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will reclaim the high ground on the issue that propelled him into the Governor's Office five years ago but has bedeviled him ever since: the state's badly broken finances.


2008 Ballot Watch: Proposition 12: Veterans Bond Act of 2008 -- For the 27th time since 1922, California voters will be asked to authorize bonds for a program that makes low-interest home loans to California veterans. Proponents say the Cal-Vet program has helped some 420,000 California veterans stretching back to World War I.


30% of San Francisco juvenile offenders actually adults -- Nearly 30 percent of the felony offenders San Francisco juvenile justice officials have reported to federal immigration authorities since the city stopped shielding youths from deportation have turned out to be adults, authorities say. The city's Juvenile Probation Department has referred 58 offenders to federal authorities since Mayor Gavin Newsom announced July 2 that the city no longer would protect youths from deportation under San Francisco's sanctuary law.


Hundreds of adult illegals also got sanctuary -- It turns out that San Francisco wasn't shielding just juvenile illegal immigrants from deportation if they committed crimes - City Hall officials have discovered that there are 372 convicted adult felons on probation in the city who weren't reported to the feds.


California tuition break for illegal immigrants can be challenged -- Appellate court rules that a lawsuit over the granting of in-state college fees can go forward.


House pursuing probe of SEIU local in L.A., panel chairman says -- After Republican charge of stalling, George Miller says his committee is simply taking care not to interfere with criminal investigation.

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