This page and its contents are copyright © 2006 by Etopia Media News Networks. All rights in all media reserved.

logo of the Center for Genetics and Society-------Jesse Reynolds, Project Director on Biotechnology Accountability, CGS

brilliant move by Arnold Schwarzenegger to undercut Phil Angelides

Yesterday, the day after U.S. President George W. Bush unleashed his veto power for the first time in five-and-a-half years to block a bill expanding the kinds of embryonic stem cell research eligible for federal funding, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger brilliantly distanced himself from his fellow Republican chief executive and made a strong move to gain the support of many Democratic and moderate Republican California voters by ordering his Director of Finance to loan $150 million of the State of California's money to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), which has been prevented from carrying out the will of California voters in this area due to a series of lawsuits by taxpayer and religious groups opposed to Proposition 71, one of which argued that giving $3 billion in bond revenues to the CIRM (to be paid back with $6 billion in taxpayers money over 30 years) was unconstitutional because the CIRM was outside the "exclusive management and control of the State of California."

This argument was considered, and rejected, by the Alameda County Superior Court. That decision is being appealed.

an interview with Jesse Reynolds, Project Director for Biotechnology Accountability at the Center for Genetics and Society

During an interview this afternoon with California Politics Today about this move by Governor Schwarzenegger, Jesse Reynolds, Project Director for Biotechnology Accountability at the Center for Genetics and Society, expressed disappointment that Governor Schwarzenegger did not take the opportunity afforded by decision to loan $150 million "to bring the CIRM a little more fully under state control."

You can listen to that conversation with Mr. Reynolds, in its entirety, by clicking here.

 

Get into the swing of things with additional Etopia Media News Network articles and interviews and Google Alerts

To access additional, recent articles from the Etopia Media News Networks web site, as crawled and cataloged on the Google News web site, click here.

To sign up for Google Alerts whenever a new Etopia Media News Networks article appears on Google News, click here.