Schwarzenegger might miss out on the fun in St. Paul
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was slated for a high-profile role on the opening night of the Republican convention in St. Paul on Monday, but there’s a good chance he will take a pass on the spotlight.
The governor said he will skip the GOP gathering if California lawmakers still haven’t reached an agreement on a new state budget. And given that the budget already is nearly two months overdue, and that legislators need to plug a $15-billion hole, odds are reasonably high it’s not going to happen.
The Times’ Molly Hennessy-Fiske has Schwarzenegger’s comments over with Veronique on our engrossing sister blog L.A. Now.
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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The AS will most likely be using a video telecommunication presentation. And he will make lots of disgusting remarks about the democrats and the state legislators and will be applauded by it from both the convention and media. Let's hope that at the democratic convention they will be READY!!!
Posted by: Tom Thumb | August 27, 2008 at 02:18 PM