(10-27) 19:19 PDT SACRAMENTO -- Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to "kiss my gay ass"?
Schwarzenegger's people say no. But the X-rated evidence is hard to miss in a message that Schwarzenegger sent to explain why he was vetoing an Ammiano bill dealing with financing for the Port of San Francisco.
A straight reading of the guv's letter laments "the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration," and concludes, "I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time."
But a vertical read of the far-left-hand letters in each of the missive's eight lines offers a more blunt explanation: "I f- you."
Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted Tuesday it was simply a "weird coincidence." He sent us veto messages the governor sent out in the past with linguistic lineups such as "soap" and "poet," which he said were also unintended.
"Something like this was bound to happen," McLear said.
Maybe. But the veto message came after Ammiano called the governor a liar and shouted from the audience to "kiss my gay ass" when Schwarzenegger unexpectedly showed up at a Democratic Party dinner in San Francisco on Oct. 7.
Ammiano later called Schwarzenegger's attendance at the event a "cheap publicity stunt" that wasn't at all amusing, in light of the governor's cuts in social services, ordered furloughs of state workers and failure to act on some gay-rights issues.
The governor's veto letter was in response to Ammiano's AB1176 - a rather mundane bill meant to help San Francisco's port with finance issues. The "coincidence" was first picked up on Tuesday by the Bay Guardian newspaper.
As for Ammiano, a professional comic in addition to being a liberal Democrat, he's playing it straight on this one: "They probably think they are even now," he said.
"I think it was very creative, and it's time to bury the hatchet," Ammiano added. "I'm not interested in prolonging it."
The hidden message - if that's what it was - "was certainly more subtle than 'kiss my gay ass,' " said Barbara O'Connor, political science professor at Sacramento State University. "But it shows the acrimony and bad feelings in Sacramento are pretty bad.
"I doubt if it was the governor himself," O'Connor said. "But maybe the staff was having a good time."
The space between the paragraphs is right where it needs to be to seperate the two word phrase. And i may be imagining things but the word choice seems a bit unnatural in places too.
Whose tool is he and why do you think so? I don't really understand how people can hate the guy unless they live in California and are adversely affected by gay politics.
On October 29 2009 18:46 .risingdragoon wrote: he doesn't work for the people, is that clear enough? he's vetoed many progressive bills for the corporations.
Yea I live in CA, the model for all other states.
Name me a state where the governor works for the people.
lol the niveau of american politics saddens me. why dont they just do a cage match instead of political debates? well I guess only a cpl more years and even that will be normal and acceptable for US politicians.
On October 29 2009 20:36 damenmofa wrote: lol the niveau of american politics saddens me. why dont they just do a cage match instead of political debates? well I guess only a cpl more years and even that will be normal and acceptable for US politicians.
Impressive fake or not. My friend and his college buddys used to do stuff like that on their papers and assingments. Nestle in some obsceneities in various ways.
Kinda reminds me of what my uncle told me he did for his political science class in college. They had to write a 5 page paper a week and once he noticed that the guy was just reading the 1st and last pages of each paper durring a quiz. So the next week he wrote in the middle of his paper "fuck you prof your not even reading this". He was nervous until he got an A on the paper so from then on he just wrote a 1st and last page then just copy/pasted them into the middle pages haha.
On October 30 2009 06:04 Slaughter wrote: Kinda reminds me of what my uncle told me he did for his political science class in college. They had to write a 5 page paper a week and once he noticed that the guy was just reading the 1st and last pages of each paper durring a quiz. So the next week he wrote in the middle of his paper "fuck you prof your not even reading this". He was nervous until he got an A on the paper so from then on he just wrote a 1st and last page then just copy/pasted them into the middle pages haha.
Funniests thing Ive seen in a really long time. I dindnt believe it when I saw it but then a witty TL user posted this in the random pictures that make you laugh thread which had recently been corrupted by a picture of a cat being kicked by these two retards and everyone felt sorry for the kitty.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that there is absolutly no way this could possibly be luck or some kind of freaky coincidence. The chances of that happening are like astronomically little. Think about it you have 26 letters and everyone just happens to be the right letter.
Obviously this was the work of some prankster intern or even the govenor himself. It would be foolish to assume that someone would do this without putting their job in serious jeapordy.
You got to figure that these are smart people. They fought tooth and nail to become the govenors official scribe and there going to be stupid enough to insert this snide remark. Thats an unbelievably dangerous move.
Given this its pretty clear that the order to put this message in came from the top. This act was under direct order from the big man himself, Arnold. And frankly knowing the roles that the younger Arnold played so well its not that surprising. This overly aggressiveness theatrics may sell tickets but it is not appropriate for a head of state.
Edit: Aaannnnnd formating for the input box is different than formating for the post totally ruining the joke. Oh well. Also incase anyone has really thin skin: no i did not mean it :p
On October 30 2009 07:04 Archerofaiur wrote: Funniests thing Ive seen in a really long time. I dindnt believe it when I saw it but then a witty TL user posted this in the random pictures that make you laugh thread which had recently been corrupted by a picture of a cat being kicked by these two retards and everyone felt sorry for the kitty.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that there is absolutly no way this could possibly be luck or some kind of freaky coincidence. The chances of that happening are like astronomically little. Think about it you have 26 letters and everyone just happens to be the right letter.
Obviously this was the work of some prankster intern or even the govenor himself. It would be foolish to assume that someone would do this without putting their job in serious jeapordy.
You got to figure that these are smart people. They fought tooth and nail to become the govenors official scribe and there going to be stupid enough to insert this snide remark. Thats an unbelievably dangerous move.
Given this its pretty clear that the order to put this message in came from the top. This act was under direct order from the big man himself, Arnold. And frankly knowing the roles that the younger Arnold played so well its not that surprising. This overly aggressiveness theatrics may sell tickets but it is not appropriate for a head of state.
Edit: Aaannnnnd formating for the input box is different than formating for the post totally ruining the joke. Oh well. Also incase anyone has really thin skin: no i did not mean it :p
Slick yo, just gotta copy/paste into the input box Fun little play by Arnold though, gotta love it. Wonder if the bill was important at all though?
When asked by the Guardian if the message was intentional, Schwarzenegger’s spokesman said only, “what a strange coincidence.” The paper noted that he was “clearly being sarcastic.”
A spokesman for the governor told Threat Level that he’d been receiving a number of calls about the letter and hadn’t yet decided whether they were going to release a statement about it.
UPDATE 6:15 PST: The governor’s office decided it would make a statement, of sorts, after all. Spokesman Aaron McLear told Threat Level the hidden message was just “a strange coincidence,” repeating the response given to the Bay Guardian. He added that the governor’s office had written other letters that also had hidden words spelled out in them. When asked for examples of what was spelled out in those letters, he replied “soap,” “poet,” “ear.”
“When you do so many veto messages that’s bound to happen,” he said.
He promised to send examples of those other letters.
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