{"id":309359,"date":"2010-02-11T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a88f91cb970b"},"modified":"2010-02-11T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:52:44","slug":"maldonado-fails-to-get-assembly-ok-for-lieutenant-governor-court-fight-might-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309359","title":{"rendered":"Maldonado fails to get Assembly OK for lieutenant governor; court fight might follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-11\/50674848.jpg\" style=\"margin: 9px; float: left; width: 300px;\"><\/img>The California Assembly on Thursday failed to confirm Sen. Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria)\u00a0 as lieutenant governor, setting the stage for a potential court fight between the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n<p>He received 37 votes in favor of his confirmation and 35 votes against confirmation. All but one of the Assembly&#8217;s Republican members voted for his promotion. Only eight members of the 49-member Democratic caucus voted to support Maldonado. The Assembly&#8217;s only independent member, Juan Arambula of Fresno, also voted in support of confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>But it may not be over. In the end, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/what-does-it-take-to-get-rejected-lawyers-weigh-in-on-lieutenant-governor-dispute.html\">the courts may be asked to decide what the definition of rejection is.<\/a> At issue is whether Maldonado&#8217;s nomination had to be rejected by a majority of the Assembly&#8217;s 80 members, as the administration maintains. The Assembly leadership says Maldonado&#8217;s confirmation was rejected simply because he failed to receive 41 votes in the Assembly. <\/p>\n<p><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/maldonado-denied-confirmation-by-assembly.html\">full story <\/a>and more coverage on state politics at <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\">PolitiCal<\/a>, The Times&#8217; California Politics Blog.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Photo: L.A. Times file<br \/><\/br><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/br><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Assembly on Thursday failed to confirm Sen. Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria)\u00a0 as lieutenant governor, setting the stage for a potential court fight between the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He received 37 votes in favor of his confirmation and 35 votes against confirmation. All but one of the Assembly&#8217;s Republican members voted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}