Fuck You, by Arnold Schwarzenegger

To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1176 without my signature.

For some time now I have lamented the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration.

Water reform, prison reform, and health care are major issues my Administration has brought to the table, but the Legislature just kicks the can down the alley.

Yet another legislative year has come and gone without the major reforms Californians overwhelmingly deserve. In light of this, and after careful consideration, I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time.

Sincerely,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Circled in red, each first leter of the sentences form the acronym for "FUCK YOU". Coincidence?

A carta escrita pelo governador Arnold Schwarzenegger aos membros da Assembléia do Estado da Califórnia causou furor porque as iniciais de cada frase, em sete linhas consecutivas, ao longo da margem esquerda, formam o acrônimo FUCK YOU, talvez uma coincidência.

Eis o texto, que relata as queixas de um governador cansado de leis inócuas, enquanto as que realmente importam são relegadas ao esquecimento.

Aos membros da Assembléia do Estado da Califórnia:

Estou devolvendo a Lei da Assembléia 1176 sem sancioná-la.

Durante algum tempo, eu lamentei o fato de assuntos importantes serem negligenciados, enquanto muitas leis desnecessárias são trazidas à minha consideração.

A reforma do sistema de águas, a reforma das prisões, e o tratamento de saúde são assuntos cruciais que minha administração apresentou para votação, mas os legisladores simplesmente os jogaram para escanteio.

Mais uma vez, outro ano legislativo começa e termina sem que se aprovem as grandes reformas que os cidadãos californianos indiscutivelmente merecem.

Em vista disso, e após cuidadosa ponderação, eu acredito ser desnecessário sancionar essa lei desta vez.

Sinceramente,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

(A lei vetada pretendia converter um antigo estaleiro num bairro residencial.)

Se trata de un acrónimo escondido o de una coincidencia? El texto de esta imagen es una carta en la que el gobernador de California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, explica por qué veta una ley a los legisladores que la elaboraron.

La carta del gobernador de California

Si se lee de izquierda a derecha, Schwarzenegger argumenta que desde hace algún tiempo los legisladores "pasan por alto muchas cuestiones" mientras que no paran de mandarle "un montón de leyes innecesarias". Y les acusa de bloquear las reformas que "merecen" los ciudadanos de California.

Sin embargo, si se leen en sentido vertical las iniciales de cada una de las palabras con las que comienza cada línea del párrafo principal, lo que se lee es Fuck you. En español: "Que os jodan".

La misiva iba dirigida a un parlamentario de San Francisco, Tom Ammiano, encargado de la ley AB1176, aprobada en el congreso y en el senado pero vetada por el gobernador. La ley pretendía reconvertir un antiguo astillero de San Francisco en un nuevo barrio de viviendas.

El portavoz de Ammiano ha felicitado al gobernador por su "uso creativo de la coincidencia", pero ha lamentado que el humor llegue "a costa del Puerto de San Francisco", según recoge el diario digital estadounidense The Huffington Post.

It reads like an innocuous letter from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, explaining why he vetoed a wonky piece of legislation that would have made changes to “infrastructure financing districts.”

But hidden in Schwarzenegger’s text is another message: an obscene phrase apparently directed at the bill’s author, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), who ridiculed the governor earlier this month. The phrase, “F--- You,” is spelled out by the first letter of seven consecutive lines along the left margin.

Schwarzenegger has been a prankster at least since his bodybuilding days, when he persuaded competitors that they should eat huge amounts of food - ice cream, ground nutshells and salt, for example - that made them sick, according to two of his biographers.

The veto message about the Ammiano bill was issued Oct. 11, four days after the lawmaker jeered Schwarzenegger – using his own obscene phrase - when the Republican governor spontaneously popped in at a Democratic fundraiser being held near another event he was attending. It says AB 1176’s proposed revisions to rules on developing the San Francisco waterfront were unnecessary.

The coded message was reported by the San Francisco Bay Guardian on its website today. “My goodness, what a coincidence that it would say something along the left-hand margin,” said the governor’s spokesman, Aaron McLear. “But I suppose when you do so many vetoes, something like this is bound to happen.”