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November 18, 2009

Schwarzenegger is a poet

An acrostic poet, but a poet nonetheless. Stuff like this makes my day cozy.

Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to “kiss my gay ass”?

Schwarzenegger’s people say no. But the X-rated evidence is hard to miss in a message that Schwarzenegger sent to explain why he was vetoing an Ammiano bill dealing with financing for the Port of San Francisco.

A straight reading of the guv’s letter laments “the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration,” and concludes, “I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time.”

Twitterers around the world are going nuts over a letter from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California State Legislature — and it’s not as though they’ve all suddenly become state politics wonks.

No, they’re focused on the left hand column of the letter, which vetoes a fairly obscure legislative finance provision. If you read the first letter of each line, it pretty unmistakably spells out “F*** You.”Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle, a spokesman for the governor (implicitly) confirms that the letter is real, but claims that it was all a “weird coincidence:” “something like this was bound to happen,” he said to the paper.

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