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The governor's spokesmen have indicated he will blue-pencil any bill he believes hampers job creation and puts California at a competitive disadvantage, leaving the minimum wage bill with Schwarzenegger's veto all but preprinted on it.
``The governor was apparently in a blue-pencil mode and decided to go through it with his blue pencil,'' Tom Duffy, school district superintendent, said Tuesday.
A product of the Republican Congress that was elected in 1994, the line-item veto will permit the president to blue-pencil specific spending items or special tax breaks in individual bills without rejecting the legislation in its entirety.
 
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