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"What we want to do is avoid laws on the books that don’t pass the Comedy Central litmus test." South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on a provision he vetoed that would have required hair-salon shampooers to have 1,500 hours of training Source: Columbia State
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"Radwaste buried here only over my dead body." From Joe Egan's eulogy, the attorney whose small law firm has led Nevada’s legal campaign against the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, and who died of stomach cancer at 53 Source: Las Vegas Sun "The idea of leaving Manhattan permanently irritates me." Ed Koch, the 83-year-old former New York mayor, who has purchased a burial plot at Trinity Church Cemetery, the only active cemetery in Manhattan still accepting burials Source: New York Times "I think we have a big problem." Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor of management and public policy at the University of California-Los Angeles, on the fact that no one seems able to pin down exactly how bad California's budget deficit is. Official projections vary almost daily, from as low as $8 billion to as high as $20 billion Source: San Jose Mercury News "Don’t worry about it. I’ll help you out. I’ll help you out." Passaic, N.J., Mayor Samuel Rivera, who has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges, to an undercover FBI informant last year during a secretly recorded conversation Source: Newark Star-Ledger "Don’t think we won't come after your case." New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, whose office has convicted or secured public-corruption plea agreements from 126 officials in the state in the past 6 1/2 years, warning officials at a seminar on public ethics that recent high-profile convictions do not mean federal prosecutors are slackening their efforts Source: New York Times “They come from those little towns, and they don't have that vision yet of an airport or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes. Or of putting a highway on top of a highway.” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is catching criticism for his comments about how it's important for small-town state legislators to get out and see worldly things Source: Sacramento Bee “Everyone has had ups and down in their lives. The people who come to court want justice but they need a judge who understands those ups and downs.” Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney who briefly challenged Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate in 2005, was defeated for state attorney general that year, and who once was chosen for People magazine's "most beautiful" issue, on her selection to be the presiding jurist on "Judge Jeanine Pirro," a weekday court show premiering in September on the CW network Source: Associated Press “How would you like it if you went to a wine tasting and you couldn’t taste the wine?” Al Shinogle of Denver, puffing on a hand-carved Danish pipe in a tent outside the St. Charles, Ill., convention center, expressing the frustrations of some 4,000 attendees at the Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show who were prevented by a state ban from smoking inside the convention hall Source: Chicago Tribune “She was a patient patient for about two days, but as the meds wore off she quickly became her old self, way more optimistic than patient.” Dan Mulhern, husband of Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, reporting in his blog on her recuperation at home from surgery for an intestinal blockage and noting that "I nearly had to order her to go to the doctor" after she complained of intense abdominal pain April 27 Source: Detroit Free Press “There was obviously an element in the police force, and it wasn’t Republican or Democrat, it was just out-of-control people who had power that were clearly monitoring a lot of the elected officials.” New York Gov. David Paterson, saying he went public with his extramarital affairs soon after taking office because he was worried that rogue state police might beat him to the punch Source: WFAN Radio