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What is Arnold thinking?
"Since January 1, 7,000 illegal cell phones have been seized in California prisons, and thousands are believed to have been missed.
Yet last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Padilla could not overcome their differences to fix a fast-escalating public-safety threat that virtually every elected official in Sacramento agrees is a mess.
Schwarzenegger vetoed scores of bills last week, the deadline for signing or killing new laws. Among them he rejected Padilla's Senate Bill 525, which would have slapped a $5,000 misdemeanor fine on anyone caught smuggling a cell phone into prison. With other related fines, the misdemeanor would have meant a serious bite of about $15,000.
Yet a disgusted-sounding Schwarzenegger, in his veto message, noted: "Signing [it] would mean that smuggling a can of beer into a prison carries with it a greater punishment than delivering a cell phone to the leader of a criminal street gang."
Why in the world does Arnold refuse to punish the bringing of cell phones into our prisons? Who cares about the punishment for beer in prison?
By vetoing this measure, Arnold is promoting the commission of crimes. This is what happens when you have an ego driven, amateur as Governor. Any wonder his approval level is only 22%?
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"Since January 1, 7,000 illegal cell phones have been seized in California prisons, and thousands are believed to have been missed.
Yet last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Padilla could not overcome their differences to fix a fast-escalating public-safety threat that virtually every elected official in Sacramento agrees is a mess.
Schwarzenegger vetoed scores of bills last week, the deadline for signing or killing new laws. Among them he rejected Padilla's Senate Bill 525, which would have slapped a $5,000 misdemeanor fine on anyone caught smuggling a cell phone into prison. With other related fines, the misdemeanor would have meant a serious bite of about $15,000.
Yet a disgusted-sounding Schwarzenegger, in his veto message, noted: "Signing [it] would mean that smuggling a can of beer into a prison carries with it a greater punishment than delivering a cell phone to the leader of a criminal street gang."
Why in the world does Arnold refuse to punish the bringing of cell phones into our prisons? Who cares about the punishment for beer in prison?
By vetoing this measure, Arnold is promoting the commission of crimes. This is what happens when you have an ego driven, amateur as Governor. Any wonder his approval level is only 22%?
More...