State workers spent >50 hours building Schwarzenegger campaign prop

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Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - State carpenters and painters spent more than 50 hours building an elaborate prop for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to use to promote his plan to curb state spending, a practice the head of a public watchdog group denounced as a waste of government resources.

Schwarzenegger appeared in front of a 25-foot model of the Capitol at the state fairgrounds in Sacramento last month to turn a spigot and shut off the flow of red ink he said symbolizes state spending.

"You're wasting government resources to highlight the waste of government resources," said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington.

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If not the citizens!!! What a feckwad!!!

...of taxpayers dollars.

Oh wait, I forgot, he's stemming the flow of red ink.

totalitarian self-worshipping dictators throughout history and right up into the present time. Self-aggrandizing propaganda, quite apart from the egregious waste of it. Are the good people of California in some sort of hypnotic trance regarding their governor? Don't they see this?

should go after these funds and punish the folks who pulled this.

Situation is really quite clear. Those *****s who voted for this guy are getting exactly what they deserve. Problem is, those of us who saw through his 'act' are stuck with him too!!

have pulled a "spinal tap" on him and given him a "stonehenge" (only fans need reply).

AHNULD's steroid dial goes to 11

..."MADE IN USA" at a Chimp event!

Props are stupid, and they are usually employed to sell a load of shit to an unsuspecting public. If your words have real meaning and resonate with your constituency, all you need is a podium and a microphone.

You just know somebody is on a payroll to think of these nutty ways of demonstrating something which could be easily accomplished with a simple graph.

How about duct tape across Arnold's mouth to highlight the waste of even listening to Steroid-Man?

Unsurprising

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