The hell he didn't. All you had to do was R-E-A-D his position papers and you would have known he was going to take us into the sewer. You just believed the whisper campaign that he was a "fiscal conservative." It was complete crap from the beginning.
When a politician goes on TV and radio and says over and over that “Taxes are too high,” and “California must operate under a budget,” how is that a “whisper campaign?”
Could have had Tom McClintock, and we’d have dodged the bullet. We’d have had a very exciting confrontation between Tom and the legislature, but veto’s would have slowed the growth and intrusiveness of CA gov. No, the OC mafia that runs the CA Repubs wanted Arnie. Guess they figured they could manipulate him and stay at the trough. They were right. Now the states in a budget mess worse than with Grey. And Jerry Brown says “he didn’t realize it was as bad as it is.” Expletive.