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  • Fall ballot a national focal point

    02/22/2005 10:28:35 AM PST · by SmithL · 324+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/22/5 | Gary Delsohn and Andy Furillo
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has alienated a lot of different interest groups with his ambitious plans to overhaul state government, but a host of experts agree with him on one big point. By taking on teachers, unions, pensions, legislative redistricting and Democrats all at once, he's transformed what would have been an off-election year in California into a fierce political battlefield with potentially profound national implications. "It's huge on the national radar screen," said Kevin Spillane, a Republican political consultant in Sacramento. "There's no doubt the special election will be the biggest political story this year." Democrats and organized labor accuse...