[Iberian]

I don't understand why this guy is still around? . If you were Arnie, why would you keep him around.
This guy is not the hispanic model for vision. He is to hispanics a hang-on guy, a political lifer. Why is this guy sticking around?? I keep going to the same thought pattern.

Dammm I'm a loop.

[South40]

I don't understand why this guy is still around? . If you were Arnie, why would you keep him around.

Bustamante was independently elected. The governor has no power to remove him.

[BenLurkin]

In California the Lt. Governor does not run on a "ticket" with the Governor. He (or she) is elected directly and separately from the top slot. So a democrat 'Gov' can have an Republican 'Lt' OR as we have here, a Republican Governor is stuck with a typical democrat machine political hack.

[heleny]

I don't understand why this guy is still around? . If you were Arnie, why would you keep him around.

Bustamante was elected to his office in 2002 for a regular 4-year term.
Gov. Schwarzenegger doesn't really have a choice.

I am still concerned that, with the Democrats strongly in power in both houses of the legislature, Lt.Gov. Bustamante might sign awful legislation, nominate bad judges, or otherwise undermine Gov. Schwarzenegger when he travels outside CA. This happened when Mike Curb (R) was lieutenant governor to Jerry Brown many years ago and when Gray Davis (D) was lt.gov to Pete Wilson.