The following blog was posted at the Flash Report by AFP California's Communications Director, Meredith Turney.

This morning I read the Governor's Weekly Address and decided that it needed a conservative response. The whole address was a "celebration" of the one-year anniversary of the federal stimulus plan. It's hardly an anniversary worth celebrating, but considering California's recent proclivity to beg the feds for more aid, I guess the influx of cash would excite government bureaucrats.

We’re less than a week into the New Year and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to deliver his last State of the State address today, detailing his plans for his final year in office. When Schwarzenegger was first elected governor seven years ago, Californians believed that they had elected a no-nonsense leader who would finally offer some solutions to the chronic, seemingly endemic, problems plaguing the state. Unfortunately for the well-being of our state, solutions—or the willingness to make tough choices—never materialized.