September 13, 2010
Schwarzenegger Defends Asia Trip Amid Budget Deadlock
California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger defended his week-long business trip to Asia as needed to research high-speed rail options even as the state operates without a budget
“In each one of the countries that we go to, which is China, Japan and Korea, we are going to ride high speed rail and they all are going to be part of the bidding process in California,” Schwarzenegger said at the Netrepreneur Summit in Hangzhou, China, today. “It would be a mistake for California to think we can do high-speed rail ourselves.”
Hangzhou is Schwarzenegger’s first stop on a week-long trade mission to China, Japan and South Korea, even as he and state lawmakers fail to agree on how to eliminate a $19.1 billion deficit before the state runs out of cash. State lawmakers including Noreen Evans of Santa Rosa have called on Schwarzenegger to postpone the trip...
LINK - BusinessWeek.com
