SAC-BEE
Every time Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves the state, he must relinquish his powers to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante under a law written in the days before the telephone was invented........Bustamante has also publicly released tallies of just how often he is called upon to take over when Schwarzenegger leaves the state or the country - about 106 days so far out of the nearly 500 since the governor took office.
At the same time, Schwarzenegger has criticized the Democrat-controlled Legislature for failing to work hard enough.Democrats at Wednesday's hearing suggested they would keep that in mind when they voted on the measure, SCA 6.
"I'm a little testy about the fact that the governor has made a big deal about whether we are here working," said Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica. "I have not missed 20 percent of the time I'm supposed to be here, but the governor has missed 20 percent of the time he has been in office."....In 1991, during the Los Angeles riots, "Pete Wilson had to take personal command of the National Guard," Green said. "How's Arnold going to do that when he's at the Cannes Film Festival?"
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