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Times story...
State Sen. John Burton of San Francisco, now the capital's most powerful Democrat, said he spoke to Schwarzenegger on Wednesday morning and warned him: "It's going to be pretty goddamn tough."
"I'm not sure he knows how complicated and screwed up it is to run a state this size, especially not understanding that there were a lot of cuts made already," Burton said in an interview. "There's not a hell of a lot of soup left in the pot to ladle out."