May 25, 2009 2:27 pm US/Pacific
Mayor To Sacramento: Keep Your Mitts Off Our Money
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ―
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The Mayor is headed to Sacramento to fight to keep Los Angeles money in Los Angeles.
AP
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a message for Sacramento: hands off my dough.
The mayor plans a high- profile lobbying trip to the state capitol Tuesday to protest potential confiscation of local government money by the nearly-bankrupt state government.
Villaraigosa will be joined by mayors Jerry Sanders of San Diego and Miguel Pulido of Santa Ana.
Villaraigosa's office said Monday that one state proposal to partly fill a $21.3 billion budget deficit would divert 8 percent of local government revenues to the state, which would reduce the Los Angeles general fund by $68 million.
The Democratic mayor will meet with the state treasurer and state comptroller, as well as legislative leaders, on the Tuesday day trip.
Noticeably absent from his appointment book, however, is Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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