[CyberSpartacus]

This is essentially unfair to Arnold. The first thing he tried to accomplish when he was elected was to pass a referendum that limited government. The Kalifornia voters rejected it! So they will get what they and every other socialist deserves, penury, chaos, and crime.

[calcowgirl]

This is essentially unfair to Arnold. The first thing he tried to accomplish when he was elected was to pass a referendum that limited government. The Kalifornia voters rejected it!

Unfair? I think it's mild!

If you're talking about Prop 76, it did NOT limit government. It authorized more borrowing and supported spending higher than we have today. It had everything to do with locking in the debt payments on the "economic recovery" bonds so that he could justify even more borrowing. Voters rightly rejected it.

If you're NOT talking about Prop 76, can you provide a citation of the referendum you are referring to?

Arnold's first act was actually to KILL a spending cap measure that was going through the legislature, instead pushing for his $15 billion dollar Prop 57/58 borrowing scheme.

[SierraWasp]

"The first thing he tried to accomplish when he was elected was to pass a referendum that limited government."

I'm sorry. I don't want to come off as "disagreeable," but you are way off on this as the first drastic measure he signed into law was to spread another totally unnecessary layer of government expansion over 1/5th of CA's map in the form of his outrageous Sierra-Nevada CONservancy!!!

I wish you'd have paid better attention to the multitude of governmental expansions he has enacted while promising to "blow up those boxes!"

By the time people got a chance to vote on his ballot measures, they were already meaningless because of all the GovernMental EnvironMental nonsense he had already enacted... To say nothing of all the leftist Democrat judges and other officials on huge salaries he gleefully appointed to demonstrat his disdain for his own Party!!!

This IBD editorial is way... WAY overdue!!!

[Carry_Okie]

The first thing he tried to accomplish when he was elected was to pass a referendum that limited government.

Oh really? What "referendum" would that be?

If you are thinking Prop 76, it wasn't designed to work as advertised. Remember too, that it was submitted AFTER borrowing $15 billion with the promise to "cut up the credit cards." Every budget Arnold has submitted since then has increased spending faster than Gray Davis, with the exception of Davis' first budget after voter mandated spending increases pursuant to Proposition 8.