Posted on 02/24/2004 12:24:12 PM PST by calcowgirl
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:06:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Today is Gov. Arnold's Schwarzenegger's 100th day in office, a trivial benchmark in every chief executive's first term made significant only by the roundness of the number and, in this case, the ambitious plans of the politician.
Schwarzenegger, showing signs of the chutzpah that would characterize the early days of his tenure as governor, laid out plans for his the first 100 days on Oct. 1 - six days before he won the election. So it's only fair to judge him on his own lofty expectations.
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Please cite examples to support this conclusion. I find it totally contrary to reality.
"govern more to the conservative side, than his critics predicted.
On what items has he turned more conservative than predicted?
That is something you and I can agree on. LOL
Lets take a look at some of the promises/pledges/statements he made from early July through mid November and evaluate how he’s done 97 days after he took office.
Promises kept
1. Promised to immediately reinstate the 66% subsidy of the VLF
2. Promised to postpone granting residency status to illegal aliens.
3. Refused to accept financial contributions form certain “special interests”.
4. Called the legislature into a special session to address the financial crisis
5. Appointed executive branch staff on a bipartisan basis.
Promises neither achieved nor actively broken
1. Audit the books to eliminate extensive waste.
2. Sweep the legislative branch clean of waste and mischief.
3. Fix the Unemployment Insurance Fund crisis.
4. Reform the Workers Compensation Insurance system.
5. Blow up the boxes.
6. Collect California’s fair share from the feds.
7. Renegotiate long-term energy contracts.
8. Renegotiate gaming contracts with sovereign tribes in California.
9. Renegotiate employment contracts with certain state employees.
10. The Open Government Reform Plan.
11. Build up mass transit and reduce traffic congestion
12. Improve the business climate to provide greater tax revenues.
Promises actively broken
1. Promised a reduction in the VLF.
2. Promised a reduction in overall spending by state government.
3. Promised to balance the state budget through reductions in state spending.
4. Promised not to raise taxes as a first step in solving the financial crisis.
5. Would not target education as a vehicle to reduce overall state spending.
6. Would conduct business openly in the executive branch.
7. Would place a hard cap on state spending.
8. Would defuse political rancor through bipartisan governance.
9. Would extend health insurance to all California children.
10. Would stop the “outrageous” (40%) hikes in higher education fees.
11. Would stop shifting property tax revenues away from local government.
12. Would make public the results of a 60-day audit of California’s books.
13. Pledged to take no donations during his campaign for governor.
14. Pledged to investigate allegations of personal misconduct as a private citizen.
These are just the highlights. His campaign web site had 24 pages of single spaced campaign promises.
Are you SERIOUS??? Did they think he had an "S" emblazoned on his Austrian-American chest???
He's NEVER gonna be able to come even close to hurdling such a high mark... NEVER!!! Disappointment and dashed expectations can only come of that. That's being a dreamer!!!
In his defense, which I'm not prone to do since I didn't vote for him, he was absolutely ROLLED by the Dems on the "Spending Cap" deal. They all got up and went home and stonewalled him to teach him a lesson. The "first 100 days" preposterous measurement loomed way too large and he buckled while his wife and the former Assembly Speaker "saved" his face from ignomy!!!
The man and those advising him were niaeve and stupid to think that after losing a Dem Governor and still holding a monopoly on other statewide offices with a huge majority in both houses that they wouldn't be totally vengeful and proceed to castrate and castigate him under these humiliating circumstances!!!
They saw his first attempt to "go to the People" and it din't look too strong so they called his bluff! Having the people as his "hole" card was wiped out by the "first 100 days" nonsense and they knew it!!!
Again, I say, look what happened to Jesse Ventura, Arnold's partner in the failed Planet Hollywood resturant chain and co-actor in Predator! Jesse failed to change MN so badly that he threw in the towel after one term. Arnold may be destined to do the same with such a huge "wish list" of campaign promises!!!
Now he's making noises on national TV about Hatch's constitutional amendment to make it possible to run for El Presidente! Judas Priest!!! He'll have such a long list of failed promises to CA that will make it impossible for him to ever win another elected office, let alone El Presidente of the USSA!
He'll probably throw in the towell after one term, just like Jesse before him! Like Jesse, he'll just get bored with it all and look for greener pastures...
Meanwhile, the CA businesses,economy and people which crave stability will be left in the lurch, once again, holding an empty bag!!!
The ONLY thing he needed was ANY Constitituional Amendment bill that could include the change in definition for debt issuance. It didn't matter what the heck this bill said, as long as it included that one provision. Otherwise, his bonds issued as Proposition 57 would be challenged as Unconstititonal. That is why Prop 57 is tied to Prop 58.
Proposition 57 cannot stand alone as it violates the constitution.
sfwarrior... there's some more grist for your mill just above... use it, or abuse it, if it pleases you.(grin)
Boy-Oh-Boy, ain't that the TRUTH!!!
If the interest is prop 57/58, lots of grist where that came from. I wrote a 2000 word fact-filled rant to a friend. A method of relieving ones frustration... I was trying to get rid of that waspish feelin'! ;-)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set out an agenda for his first 100 days in office, which began Nov. 17 with his swearing in as California’s 38th governor.
Tuesday was his 100th day in office.
The following is a list of what Schwarzenegger has promised he would do during his first 100 days in office -- and whether he’s taken action so far:
* Repeal last year’s tripling of the state vehicle license fee.Yes. Schwarzenegger issued an executive order Nov. 17 rolling back the car tax.* Call a special legislative session.
Yes.* Repeal a law that would have let undocumented immigrants get driver’s licenses after Jan. 1.
Yes. Schwarzenegger signed the repeal of the law Dec. 3.* Pass a jobs package with “real workers’ comp reform.”
No.* Make spending cuts to address the current imbalance.
The governor’s budget proposal, announced Jan. 9, would cut more than $4 billion in spending from a variety of services. Most of it -- about $1.7 billion -- would come from the state’s health insurance plan for the poor and disabled and welfare programs. The Legislature must approve the plan before it can take effect.* Freeze spending and complete an audit of the state’s $99 billion budget.
Schwarzenegger reauthorized a spending and hiring freeze that former Gov. Gray Davis approved more than a year before, but did not complete the audit.* Get the state a “fair share” of Indian gambling revenue.
No, although the governor asked for more money in his budget proposals and has appointed a negotiator to work with gambling tribes.* Renegotiate state employee union contracts.
No.* Submit a budget for fiscal year 2004, which begins next July 1, that closes a deficit estimated at $14 billion. Also, restructure debt built into this year’s budget.
Schwarzenegger submitted a budget proposal Jan. 9, but its ability to close the deficit depends on voters’ passage of a $15 billion bond issue and legislative approval of the whole budget.The full Assembly voted Feb. 19 without dissent in favor about $1 billion in one-time fixes to the state’s current budget by a variety of fund shifts and loans to the general fund.
* Streamline education bureaucracy and send more money to classrooms.
No.* Pass an open-government constitutional amendment and ban fund-raising during the state budgeting process.
No.
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