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Former California Gov. George Deukmejian said last night in a speech at the Arco Forum that an ideologically divided government is a weak government...
...Deukmejian, speaking to a crowd of approximately 125 people, suggested that greater party loyalty on the part of voters would end legislative gridlock in the American political system...
...Republican governor working with a Democratic-based legislature for eight years--from 1983 to 1991--Deukmejian said that passing bills, including budget resolutions, was difficult because each branch of government approached matters differently...
While Republicans in the state government resisted tax increases and big government programs, Deukmejian said, Democrats in the legislature tried to increase expenditures and to provide more services to the people...
California politicians, dismayed that retailers widely disregard a state law outlawing sales of aerosol paint cans to minors, are churning out new penalties for taggers. A measure that would revoke the driver's license of anyone caught writing a graffito has been sent to Governor George Deukmejian for signing. Another bill would require store owners to lock up millions of cans of spray paint to prevent shoplifting by taggers. But it is unlikely that such supply-side measures will quench the tagging urges of the Los Angeles spray-can artist known as Chaka and his competitor Ozone, who have left...