It appears that it's full steam ahead for Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to issue an executive order on Thursday holding back all but minimum wage for as many as 200,000 state employees.

But Controller John Chiang, the guy who actually writes the checks, maintains he won't follow the order. Asked about that today (by, ummm, me) the governor said this:

"The controller has his opinion of what he wants to do. He's a constitutional officer and he runs his office his way. I think the law is very clear that he has to follow through and do exactly of what our executive order says."