July 9, 2010
Update: Gov. vs. Chiang Battle Over Minimum Wage
Chiang takes fight with Schwarzenegger to cable news airwaves
State Controller John Chiang and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have spent the week trading legal filings and pointed barbs in the media. At issue is Schwarzenegger's order to reduce state worker salaries to $7.25 per hour until the state has a budget in place. It is a plan that Chiang says he cannot, and will not, implement.
Friday morning, Chiang appeared on Fox Business to talk about the wage rollbacks and his battle with Schwarzenegger...
LINK - LATimes.com (click the link to continue reading AND view the video)
Chiang on Fox Business: 'I am not defying the governor'
State Controller John Chiang said in a television interview today that he will do "anything a court asks me to do if I physically can" to comply with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to reduce pay for roughly 200.000 state workers to minimum wage because of the budget impasse.
"I am not defying the governor... I'm saying we cannot do it physically," he told Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney. Chiang likened using the state's negative payroll system to issue minimum-wage checks to trying to ride a bicycle designed to pedal forward backwards...
LINK - SacBee.com (click the link to continue reading AND view the video)
