Schwarzenegger-era real estate deal is focus of lawsuit
Source: Los Angeles Times
Gov. Jerry Brown is embroiled in potentially costly lawsuit over a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-era real estate deal gone bad.
At the center of the legal battle is the Golden State Portfolio, a collection of 11 state office buildings, including two in downtown Los Angeles, that Schwarzenegger agreed to sell to investors for $2.3 billion before leaving office at the end of 2010.
Schwarzenegger launched the deal to help fill a $25-billion deficit in the recession-racked state budget.
But Brown, who took over in January 2011, promptly canceled the sale. He called it a waste of money to sell valuable office space, only to lease back the same property.
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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Takes Democrats to manage money well.
We balanced our budget by electing a solidly Democratic government.
The Republicans were ruining California.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)and the rest of the nation and I'm not sure they are done with their destruction.