You simply cannot claim that people were not told. they WERE told, endlessly; and purposely chose to ignore the truth.
An aside, I must say that I personally don't have any respect for people who whould vote for a person with Schwarzeneggers beliefs. I think he represents a worldview that is amoral and disgusting.: abortion, stem cell research cloning, homo-unions, socialism, open-border etc etc etc. As a Catholic i would never vote for anyone like this, and i outlined this message, along with record & his true statements, loud and clear, for months before the election.. both to individuals and in the media. It was actually very easy to get media coverage on this and despite the outcome, I did my part to get coverage and was successful in my attempts. Washington Post, LATimes, OCRegister, KNBC4, KFI, KLOS, KABC, KBRT
I did a lot of the telling if you will recall, but what fraction of the voting public reads FR? No, the GOP staff of the various office-holders who eventually caved to Arnold DID come here and easily saw that conservatives could either be duped into supporting Arnold or simply shouted down. There are a lot of posters here who are far more accountable for this mess than they realize. Some of them are paid staff.