George Deukmejian
George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr.is an American politician who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983. Deukmejian was the first and so far the only governor of a US state of Armenian descent...
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understanding pesticides used
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.
difference golf government improve sports
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
jobs opportunity california
I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.
long people doe
There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.
oregon california needs
One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.
energy source available
We're looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.
thinking government growth
I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.
jobs cost problem
One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.
order land way
There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.
experts force seems
I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.
animal pesticides causes
There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.
jobs people income
It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
needs burden taxpayers
I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.
law views expression
Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation of an existing law.