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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13424)	10/23/2003 4:28:35 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793575

I am going to continue to post "inside" articles on Arnold as long as they are interesting that the National campaign is in the doldrums. ________________________________ California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub October 22, 2003 An olive branch? While Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger was drawing the media throngs in the Capitol today, his transition director, Rep. David Dreier, slipped away for a private meeting with Sen. Tom McClintock. The session, which lasted about 30 minutes in McClintock's third-floor Capitol office, was the first serious outreach from the Schwarzenegger operation to the man many Republican insiders at one time thought might cost Arnold the election. I asked Dreier if the Schwarzenegger team planned to work with McClintock, and he suggested that his presence at the senator's office was an indication that they would. McClintock told me afterword that the meeting was "cordial" and said he stands ready to help Schwarzenegger on the goal they share: reining in state spending and cutting taxes. Typical in a situation like this would be for Schwarzenegger to freeze McClintock out, to marginalize him and try to make an example of a guy who was not a "team player." While I doubt the relations between the two will ever be warm, perhaps today's meeting was a sign that Schwarzenegger understands that one of the best ways to neutralize your enemies is to bring them into your fold. sacbee.com

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13424)	10/23/2003 5:09:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793575

This is what they need to do in CA. Even though most of these contractee arrangements for big companies are actually legal, utilizing visas at least in SV (in ways they were never intended to be used)- the taxpayers pick up a lot of the tab for these sorts of arrangements. Government arrests illegal immigrants at Wal-Mart stores Federal officials arrested more than 300 illegal workers at 61 Wal-Mart stores across the country early Thursday morning and searched the Arkansas office of one of the retail chain's corporate executives, a federal official said. The arrests stem from a November 1998 investigation done in conjunction with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office. That investigation also targeted contractors and subcontractors used by Wal-Mart to clean stores. Employers are required to check forms known as I-9's, filled out by every new employee, and keep the forms for a specified period of time. An employer can face civil and criminal penalties for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants or failing to comply with the I-9 regulations. sfgate.com