Oct 28, 2009 | 2 min read

“F**k You!” – Schwarzenegger Veto Message to Legislator

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a clear – and profane – message to a California Legislator who heckled and criticized him recently.

The Guver-nator vetoed a bill sponsored by the legislator, San Francisco San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. Letters or "Veto Messages" are often attached to vetoes, but slightly hidden within this veto message was the infamous expletive F**k You (except fully spelled out). As you can see below, the first letter of each line in the message spell out the slam.

The SanFrancisco Chronicle noted:

… 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 Star Tribune reported:

"My goodness. What a coincidence," said Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear. "I suppose when you do so many vetoes, something like this is bound to happen."

Schwarzenegger’s veto messages are sent to the lawmakers who authored the bills, and posted on the governor’s Web site. McLear noted that the left-hand margin of past veto messages has spelled out words such as "poet" and "soap."

I’m not sure how such political commentary relates to InjuryBoard, but I’m disturbed.

Claiming coincidence is a joke or an out-and-out lie. The odds of such a clear message randomly appearing are astronomical. It is clear that the Governor or one of his staff sent this message.

This is reprehensible behavior. A governor leads, and sets an example for the citizens of the state. He’s treating his office as a joke. What example is this for the schoolchildren of California? Being a crude foul-mouth …. is okay; you could be governor of California with that potty-mouth.

On the surface it may seem a clever way to respond to rudeness from a competing politician. But this is a major veto. In sending his little message, the governor vetoed a bill that was important to the Port of San Francisco. You can only hope that he intended the veto all along, and the message was an afterthought.

But if Ah-nuld thinks it’s okay to veto a major bill just to make a joke or to slap down a politician, he needs to be impeached, because this is a major disgrace to his office. He earns this photo:

Joe Crumley

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