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Schwarzenegger rips on Hollywood

By Evan Halper
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Most politicians seek to steer clear of constituent rivalries. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today took the opposite approach at a La Jolla event honoring a donor’s $700 million in lifetime contributions to the Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research.

‘It just shows you how different it is,’ Schwarzenegger said. ‘Here we are in the same state, but in San Diego when someone is putting up $700 million it goes to charity. I mean, you just go a little bit north, 100 miles in Hollywood, if someone puts up $700 million it’s for a divorce. It’s just, you know, so different. That’s what I like about California. Wherever you look it’s a little bit different.’

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-- Evan Halper in Sacramento

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Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

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