Salon: Schwarzenegger vetoes minimum wage bill

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Steve Lawrence

Sept. 18, 2004 | SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed bills Saturday that would have raised the minimum wage to $7.75 an hour, made Wal-Mart-like megastores more difficult to build and limited schools' ability to give students random drug tests.

The Republican governor contended the minimum wage and megastore legislation would have hurt the state's economy and said drug-testing policies should be left up to school officials.

The minimum wage bill would have raised California's minimum wage from $6.75 to $7.25 Jan. 1 and to $7.75 on Jan. 1, 2006. The federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour.

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"Now is not the time to create barriers to our economic recovery or reverse the momentum we have generated," he said in a veto message. "I want to create more jobs and make every California job more secure."

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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/09/18/schwarzenegger/index.html

Don't you just love it when a multimillionaire (several times over) refuses to pay the "little people" even a hint of a living wage, because "...it might create barriers to our economic recovery...". Puhleeeze, cut the crap. You and your rich fucking friends don't want to pay a fair, living wage because it would cut into your profit margins. What a disgrace.

My dear California friends: So, have you seen enough of the "Terminator Gov."? Is that Hollywood glow enough to sustain you through the bullshit?

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1. I'm seeing why some are predicting that

the groper will not win in 2006!