Battle Lines Drawn Between Perata and Schwarzenegger on Water Bills in California Special Session

Published: September 18, 2007, 8:41 pm

Tags: water

By Frank D. Russo This afternoon the Governor announced that he was proposing $9 billion in "comprehensive water infrastructure' spending plan and that it would be contained in two bills--authored by Assembly Republican Leader Michael Villines and Republican Senator Dave Cogdill. Before receiving the Governor's press release, the talk of the town was about a $5 to 6 billion dollar set of bonds. Neither of these bills announced by the Governor are in print, and there is no indication of whether they are general obligation bonds or revenue bonds. There is no description of them on either the Assembly or Senate Republican sites or that of the Governor's authors. Senator Perata has the only bill in print in the special session on water--SB 1 XX (also denominated SB2X 1) which he introduced last Friday and which we've already described in some detail in an article on Sunday. He also has a bill, SB 1002, passed in the regular session that is on the Governor's desk and ready for his

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