How Much Will the Michael Jackson Memorial Cost Hilariously Broke California?
6 July 2009 5:00 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news ยป California is a lovely, cash-strapped state where public workers are rewarded with heavily slashed paychecks while our governor spends his own money on Humvees and life-sized replicas of himself. In short, California is the perfect place to host the Michael Jackson memorial because like the entertainer itself, it is famous and it’s already spent all of its money. And yet this Jackson service will be a costly affair, indeed. How much will it drain from already-empty state coffers?
