Phil Angelides
Phil Angelides
Phillip Nicholas "Phil" Angelidesis an American politician who was California State Treasurer and the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of California in the 2006 elections. Angelides served as the Chair of the Apollo Alliance and of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission...
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This proposition is designed to make it difficult for young women to get the medical attention they need at a very difficult time,
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the governor's spending initiative would, over time, make it more difficult to invest in education and transportation and, in fact, would end up, perhaps, taking substantial monies from local governments, who were promised last year that they would remain free from raids by the state.
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can't imagine compelling them to talk to me about this difficult a subject.
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Our urban neighborhoods were being overlooked by traditional investors. Too often these inner-city markets were being written off as places of risk, ... The private markets and private capital shunned these areas.
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I think voters are seeing each and every day that this governor just doesn't have the competence and the credibility to govern.
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People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,
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Just as Wallace, Thurmond and many other segregationists came to regret their errors, I hope that Gov. Schwarzenegger will come to change his views,
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Our inner-city neighborhoods have been written off as places of great risks, but they are also places of great opportunities and great possibilities,
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I would be remiss as treasurer if I did not speak out. This is an annually required report. The facts are hard and, unfortunately, not good for the people of California,
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The merger should not be approved unless the executive compensation package is stripped out,
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There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engineering a merger, ... enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.
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There's no question we're in worse shape fiscally than when this governor took over,
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At every turn he has favored the corporate special interests over the interests of working families. I will offer a very different version for our future.
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This is especially egregious because at the very time when these HMO executives are getting these huge paydays - whether or not the merger does well for shareholders or consumers - 6 million Californians have no health insurance and millions of working families are just struggling to pay their health care premiums,