Posted on 07/23/2005 4:45:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
What happened to Schwarzenegger's original slate of ballot initiatives.
By JOHN GITTELSOHN and HANH KIM QUACH The Orange County Register
Q. What has happened to the governor's "Year for Reform"?
A. Tough opposition and poor execution have driven it off course, supporters and critics of the governor say.
Unions for teachers, public-safety workers and other state employees have spent tens of millions of dollars attacking him in TV ads. Protesters – parents, students and nurses – have dogged his public appearances.
A Public Policy Institute of California survey released this week found Schwarzenegger's approval rating had fallen to 34 percent, from 57 percent in July 2004.
Q. How did Schwarzenegger hurt himself?
A. He made enemies and errors, critics said. He angered the education community by changing the terms of a school-funding agreement. His pension initiative led to claims that it would deprive widows of police officers killed on duty of death benefits. Election rules – later reversed – forced Schwarzenegger to keep his distance from campaign committees, fueling confusion.
Q. What remains of Schwarzenegger's agenda?
A. Only one of his four original ballot measures survives - Proposition 76, his proposal for unilateral midyear spending cuts.
First, his plan to pay teachers based on merit was changed to a measure to lengthen the time teachers need to earn tenure, now Proposition 74. Then, Schwarzenegger withdrew the measure to change the pension system after the death-benefits issue surfaced.
This week, a Sacramento Superior Court judge disqualified his redistricting plan, Proposition 77. The Schwarzenegger-backed proposition to use nonpartisan judges to redraw Legislative and congressional districts was disqualified because the version circulated for petitions was different from the version approved by the attorney general.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The only difference I have noticed to date is that the agencies I deal with (CDF, DFG, WQ) are not as gung ho to torpedo my projects as they were under Davis. Other then that, I see no difference...
Sounds like a RINO to me (or a Rat).
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