BS. It was gone long before Arnold showed up.
Had he not been Elected we would have ended up with Cruz Bustamante. If anything, Arnold slowed the onslaught by two years, but blaming him and the People who Voted for him for the demise of CA is ridiculous.
Arnold pushed for Voter Approved Reforms that were rejected by the Electorate thanks to a Teacher Union funded multi Million Dollar effort. After that, Arnold just gave up.
Unlike POTUS Trump, Arnold folded like a cheap suit when he hit a roadblock. Then his Liberal Social Agenda emerged. He was Elected because of the Budget Crisis that Taxpayers were forced to fund through the ridiculous Gray Davis Tax hikes.
I give Arnold this, he tried and he failed. The Public Service Unions and Mexico run CA. He didn’t have a chance.
I lived in CA most of my Life. The CA I grew up in bears no resemblance to what it is today. The BIG change began in the 90’s after Bill Clinton was Elected POTUS.
I lived in the last Coastal bastion of Conservatism, South Orange County. Alas, it was swept away in 2018 when every Elected Representative came from the Rat Party.
“After that, Arnold just gave up.”
I’m not saying it happened — I certainly don’t know — but have you ever wondered whether Arnold might have been blackmailed, and that might account for his change in direction? Just asking questions.
I never blamed voters. Arnold ran as a conservative, governed as a liberal and then people associated his failures with conservatism. I sat in bars in Southern California at the end of his term and and heard many many times how Arnold wrecked the state and proved that conservative stuff doesn’t work. I mean, people were willing to give Jerry Brown another chance after Arnold.
please post the text once. It’s really hard to try to read an article that keeps repeating paragraphs.
“I lived in CA most of my Life. The CA I grew up in bears no resemblance to what it is today. The BIG change began in the 90’s after Bill Clinton was Elected POTUS.”
Same here. I really saw it begin to change when BC ordered closed so many of the US military facilities in the state.
Agree.