The Gov. plays hardball, an embezzler goes to jail, and cake mix causes chaos -- it's last links!

The Governator plays hardball and refuses to sign any bills until the state Legislature gets its act together and PASSES THE BUDGET!  LAT

Are you breaking California law with that GPS unit stuck to your windshield? Short answer: Yes. Up to Speed

Habitat for Humanity, which failed to find a new home in Pasadena (oh, the irony) moves its building surplus store and admin hq to Azusa. SGV Tribune 

An interview with the South Bay mountain climber whose wet socks saved him from the K2 disaster. Daily Breeze

It's prison time for a Long Beach woman who embezzled $500k from her employer and good friend (some friend) and nearly tanked the family-owned business. Press-Telegram

A powdery substance (it turned out to be cake mix) found in an office in Anaheim led to the evacuation of 400 employees and a visit by a Hazmat team. OC Register

A few fun facts about the Mission Inn in Riverside. The Sun

The widow of a Riverside County firefighter is suing the fire truck manufacturer for wrongful death. Press-Enterprise

The hometown paper takes a look at the 800-degree hot spot near Fillmore. The Star

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Comments

[Carracticus]

Ask your state assembly why taxpayers are going to be footing the bill, for the budgetary mess the state has to deal with?
The biased press will not reveal that irrefutable fact why, California is having a $17.5 budget meltdown. Nobody wants to talk about the $11 billion dollars, supporting state welfare programs for the millions of illegal immigrants squatting in this states. California has more illegal aliens feeding at the citizen welfare trough, than any other state. Now with more illegal aliens per square mile than any other community, American citizens must go easy on drinking water. Not only are taxpayers being gouged to sustain illegal income people; they must now conserve water because of the millions of illegal aliens squatting here. Further you are going to be fined, for using access water.

If Jerry Brown wants to be governor, his first task should be to rescind all 'Sanctuary city' police policies. Next he needs to erase the obnoxious label of MEXIFORNIA. Then ask the fed's to build the largest deportation center downtown, and hire cohorts of ICE squads to go house to house banging on doors.He should start right now by sponsoring the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) enforcement only and appeal proposition 187, that was fraudulently canceled to appease the Hispanic special interest. In addition, we need a new Mayor and not this elected official genuflecting to the corrupt Mexican government.

Just as Los Angeles county, San Francisco is part of the abhorrent 'Sanctuary City' mentality, so is the state itself. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. is scared to touch the festering issue, along with the pathetic city administrators. The majority can be attributed to the liberal Democratic state assembly who have used their position, to appease big business and Hispanic caucuses.

Illegal immigration has depressed wages, because predatory employers are hiring illegal cheap labor and ignoring citizens and legal residents. Both McCain and Obama just don't get it, that 80 percent of the American people are furious with supporting the 12 to 30 million illegal aliens who have invaded this sovereign country. The cost is astronomical according to (www.eagleforum.org/sources) Read unsuppressed facts at NUMBERSUSA. CAPSWEB