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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1993
GOVERNOR PATTEN: I'm not gure. All right.
This is a quick one. I'm not sure that Representative
Pelosi's bill gives us any leverage. I think you know
that we reckon that there are a number of inadequate
features in that bill which were well exposed by the wall
Street Journal last Friday.
If the administration reads the Wall Street
Journal, and it is aware as we are of some of the
inadequacies in the bill, then maybe it will impel them in
an alternative direction, in which case the leverage will
have been counterleverage. So there.
MR. MORIARTY:
Is the Journal giving you any
percentages of increase in circulation?
(Laughter.)
GOVERNOR PATTEN: It's going to be even more
widely read in
MR.
CHUGANI: Pelosi says she never reads the
Wall Street Journal.
She never agrees with the Wall
Street Journal.
(Laughter.)
MR. CHUGANI: That's what she said.
GOVERNOR PATTEN: I bet she doesn't say that
about the San Francisco Chronicle. I'll quote that next
time.
VOICE: Thanks very much indeed.
QUESTION: Did you time your visit, Governor, to
fit in with when this.was going to come up?
GOVERNOR PATTEN: Yes, and I would guess that
for the Governor and the chief-executive of the SAR,
April, May, most years is going to be a good time to be in
Washington.
VOICE: Thank you.