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Lawmaker Returns Joke Gift From Schwarzenegger [Bull Testicle Sculpture]

LATimes ^ | June 18, 2009

Posted on by Steelfish

Lawmaker returns joke gift from Schwarzenegger

Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

A bull testicle sculpture for Sen. Darrell Steinberg was meant as a prod to help with tough budget choices.

By Patrick McGreevy and Eric Bailey June 18, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento -- As lawmakers wrangled last week over how to plug California's giant deficit, the governor who once called them "girlie men" sent the state Senate leader a package that has some Capitol insiders tsk-tsking over what they see as an ill-timed display of machismo.

The gag gift from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a metal sculpture of bull testicles, came with a note suggesting the lawmaker would need them to make some tough budget choices, said legislative sources who were not authorized to speak publicly.

An annoyed Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) returned the sculpture with a sober note on the fortitude needed to protect society's vulnerable from the budget ax. That prompted a verbal apology from the governor, the sources said.

Still, "we're not going to be upset" about a practical joke, said Steinberg's spokeswoman, Alicia Trost. In fact, she said, the Senate leader and Schwarzenegger "send each other gag gifts all the time."

Steinberg had earlier sent the governor a basket of garden-variety mushrooms, Trost said, after Schwarzenegger called Senate budget proposals "hallucinatory."



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TOPICS:

Political Humor/Cartoons

US: California

KEYWORDS:

calbudget

darrellsteinberg

juvenile

schwarzenegger

sculpture





To: Steelfish

Giving a set of testicles to a DemocRAT is a waste of a good set of testicles.



by 2 posted onby FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)

To: Steelfish

arnold needs those himself, and while he’s at it, send a set to every RHINO



by 3 posted onby machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)

To: Steelfish

Why do they feel the need to sanitize everything. Just say it! metal sculpture of bull testicles In other words..."A set of big brass balls!"



by 4 posted onby Blackhawk (God said it, I believe it, That settles it.)

To: machogirl

"arnold needs those himself, and while hes at it, send a set to every RHINO" Arnold has a pair of his own. He keeps them in Maria's purse.



To: Natural Law

maria’s “lock box”



by 6 posted onby machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)

To: machogirl

One, two, three lock box.



To: Steelfish

A Rino Hollywierd foreigner Kennedy who increased the California budget after promising to cut it years ago, and stabbed Republicans in the back who stood alone trying to divert this fiscal train wreck, can not get away with this “joke.” Arnold is retarded, bless his heart.



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