“He can’t be blamed for creating it, but he could have advanced the cause of fiscal conservatism by simply vetoing everything that came to his desk.”
Actually, on several major items which his democrat opponents knew he would veto, they lined up enough GOP defectors to achieve a veto-proof majority.
And the practice of GOP defectors is still continuing.
We may never know how many times he was blackmailed into his actions. We must assume that the pardon the knife welding son of Nunez got off because of that.
It doesn’t really matter who the Governor is, after all California is now a Banana Republic.
Can I be blamed for a rape if I just watched it and did nothing to help the victim?
Arnold never rose to the defense of the State. He’s heavily at fault.