Deanna's Daydreamer
08-19-2010, 10:09 PM
There's a SIMPLE ANSWER for that sh**.......
execute every one of them and you won't NEED a new death row, California.
Ever thought about that?
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http://www.marinscope.com/articles/2010/08/18/news_pointer/news/doc4c6c3b022ad8a252988510.txt
Assembly member Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) recently released statements condemning the Schwarzenegger administration’s decision to move forward with the expansion of the death row inmate complex at San Quentin Prison by providing a $64 million general fund loan to kick-start construction.
“At a time when the state may be two weeks away from sending IOUs and when the governor is attempting to furlough 156,000 state workers, citing our impending cash crisis, it is stunningly hypocritical that he is surreptitiously — and quite possibly illegally — borrowing $64 million from the state’s deteriorating general fund in order to advance his favorite pet prison project, the $400 million ‘Cadillac death row’ at San Quentin,” Huffman said. “It’s a project that has been stalled by the budget crisis, by the courts and by the inability to sell bonds due to pending litigation and the uncertain legality of proceeding with construction.”
Huffman also said the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office has found the project so expensive that it has recommended scrapping it, and that the state auditor believes it would be a short-term solution for housing condemned inmates, because that population is projected to exceed the facility’s capacity within a few years of its construction.
“The governor should take care of our highest priorities with the limited cash we have in the general fund and work to resolve the legal questions that have impeded the sale of bonds for his Cadillac death row instead of raiding the general fund for this controversial project,” said Huffman.
Huffman has long opposed the plan, and spoke out against it at an event at Dominican University in October of 2009 as well.
Leno also criticized the expansion plans.
“I continue to oppose this deeply flawed project,” he said. “The proposed construction and operating costs will exceed $1.6 billion over the next 11 years, and despite the cost and increased capacity, the new inmate complex would run out of space by 2014. The governor’s proposal to use general-fund dollars for this ill-conceived project at a time when he is decimating support for our children’s education and the sustenance of services for seniors and children makes no sense at all.
execute every one of them and you won't NEED a new death row, California.
Ever thought about that?
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http://www.marinscope.com/articles/2010/08/18/news_pointer/news/doc4c6c3b022ad8a252988510.txt
Assembly member Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) recently released statements condemning the Schwarzenegger administration’s decision to move forward with the expansion of the death row inmate complex at San Quentin Prison by providing a $64 million general fund loan to kick-start construction.
“At a time when the state may be two weeks away from sending IOUs and when the governor is attempting to furlough 156,000 state workers, citing our impending cash crisis, it is stunningly hypocritical that he is surreptitiously — and quite possibly illegally — borrowing $64 million from the state’s deteriorating general fund in order to advance his favorite pet prison project, the $400 million ‘Cadillac death row’ at San Quentin,” Huffman said. “It’s a project that has been stalled by the budget crisis, by the courts and by the inability to sell bonds due to pending litigation and the uncertain legality of proceeding with construction.”
Huffman also said the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office has found the project so expensive that it has recommended scrapping it, and that the state auditor believes it would be a short-term solution for housing condemned inmates, because that population is projected to exceed the facility’s capacity within a few years of its construction.
“The governor should take care of our highest priorities with the limited cash we have in the general fund and work to resolve the legal questions that have impeded the sale of bonds for his Cadillac death row instead of raiding the general fund for this controversial project,” said Huffman.
Huffman has long opposed the plan, and spoke out against it at an event at Dominican University in October of 2009 as well.
Leno also criticized the expansion plans.
“I continue to oppose this deeply flawed project,” he said. “The proposed construction and operating costs will exceed $1.6 billion over the next 11 years, and despite the cost and increased capacity, the new inmate complex would run out of space by 2014. The governor’s proposal to use general-fund dollars for this ill-conceived project at a time when he is decimating support for our children’s education and the sustenance of services for seniors and children makes no sense at all.