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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Governor Schwarzenegger’s plan to privatize more of California’s publicworks projects is being bolstered by a recent trip to Canada, which hasapparently been shedding its image as a bastion of liberalism bycontracting out government construction projects to private companies.However, just in case there was any doubt, Assembly Speaker FabianNúñez was quick to assert that that’s not how Democrats roll. Efforts to import this practice from Canada definitely faces an uphill battle in the legislature.
 
Yet the Governor remains powerfully persuasive, at least according to anew study which attributes a shift in public opinion on the state ofCalifornia prisons to Schwarzenegger’s support for a newprison-spending program. Nine out of ten Californians believe that prisons have become a major problem,and two-thirds support the prison reform package backed by the governorthat was passed by the legislature in May. The debate over the role ofprisons in our society continues, although the new reform deal surelyenhances the ability of prisons to punish criminals at the expense ofrehabilitating them.

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