Fuentes to attack D.C.

Freshman Assemblyman Felips Fuentes, D-Sylmar, will be giving the Democratic response on Saturday to President Bush's weekly radio address.
In it, he will go after the federal government on the impact of federal policies -- particularly the census undercount and unfunded mandates -- as part of the reasson for the state's financial problems.
The link for the remarks is at:http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/Newsline/Audio/20080405RadioAddressEnglishCensusFuentes.mp3
Among his remarks: "For too long the Bush administration has taken California’s hard earned tax dollars and rewarded us with costly and ineffective unfunded mandates.
"Indeed, while Republicans in Sacramento propose cutting our state budget to the bone, laying off teachers and closing state parks, California’s federal tax dollars are being shuffled to states that refuse to pay for the services they need, states mostly controlled by Republicans."