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The Onion takes aim at Schwarzenegger’s rosy outlook

By Evan Halper
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The Onion, the humor publication always adept at skewering political leaders, weighs in on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent comment that the state’s economy appears to be on the mend. The item comes in the form of a ‘person on the street’ pictorial. Says one fictional interviewee: ‘I had faith that California’s economy would be restored to ‘precarious.’’

--Evan Halper in Sacramento

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Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

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