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“They come from those little towns, and they don't have that vision yet of an airport or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes. Or of putting a highway on top of a highway.” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is catching criticism for his comments about how it's important for small-town state legislators to get out and see worldly things Source: Sacramento Bee
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“Everyone has had ups and down in their lives. The people who come to court want justice but they need a judge who understands those ups and downs.” Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney who briefly challenged Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate in 2005, was defeated for state attorney general that year, and who once was chosen for People magazine's "most beautiful" issue, on her selection to be the presiding jurist on "Judge Jeanine Pirro," a weekday court show premiering in September on the CW network Source: Associated Press “How would you like it if you went to a wine tasting and you couldn’t taste the wine?” Al Shinogle of Denver, puffing on a hand-carved Danish pipe in a tent outside the St. Charles, Ill., convention center, expressing the frustrations of some 4,000 attendees at the Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show who were prevented by a state ban from smoking inside the convention hall Source: Chicago Tribune “She was a patient patient for about two days, but as the meds wore off she quickly became her old self, way more optimistic than patient.” Dan Mulhern, husband of Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, reporting in his blog on her recuperation at home from surgery for an intestinal blockage and noting that "I nearly had to order her to go to the doctor" after she complained of intense abdominal pain April 27 Source: Detroit Free Press “There was obviously an element in the police force, and it wasn’t Republican or Democrat, it was just out-of-control people who had power that were clearly monitoring a lot of the elected officials.” New York Gov. David Paterson, saying he went public with his extramarital affairs soon after taking office because he was worried that rogue state police might beat him to the punch Source: WFAN Radio “My Suburban has them on it.” Florida state Sen. Jim King, on a proposal that later failed to pass the legislature to ban "Truck Nutz," a popular trailer-hitch attachment that resembles male genitalia and that King calls "a statement of truckiness," but who said later that he had removed them from the SUV to spare his wife embarrassment in traffic Source: Orlando Sentinel “The Hawaiian Kingdom Government is here and it doesn’t plan to leave.” Mahealani Kahau, elected "head of state" of a Native Hawaiian group that doesn't recognize U.S. sovereignty and which occupied the grounds of the ornate Iolani Palace, built by King Kalakaua in 1882 and now operated as a museum Source: Associated Press “I know for a fact that when a superintendent in Missouri was interviewing potential teachers last year, he would ask, ‘Do you have a Facebook or MySpace page?’ ” Todd Fuller, a spokesman for the Missouri State Teachers Association, which has warned members to watch what they say and post on personal Web pages Source: Washington Post “Eighty percent of our ideas don’t go anywhere, but 20 percent have some real wisdom and vision.” Berkeley, Calif., Mayor Tom Bates, on the city’s municipal innovations—chronicled in an exhibit at the Berkeley History Center—that have included police radios, a ban on Styrofoam, health benefits for domestic partners and a switch to biodiesel for city cars Source: San Francisco Chronicle “It took an event that was always popular and just overwhelmed it.” Washington, D.C., City Administrator Dan Tangherlini, who waited more than an hour to drop off old paint, computers and a car battery at the city's annual spring hazardous-waste recycling event and attributed the large crowds that threw traffic into gridlock to a growing interest in recycling coupled with good weather Source: Washington Post