Pee-Wee Joke

Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river flows 2 1/4 inches of water during three days of each year, if and when it rains." Apparently fearing the bill might get passed, the Senate jokesters had the Finance Committee attach an official amendment reducing the appropriation to three cents.

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