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He actually ACCOMPLISHED and was able to FOLLOW-THROUGH on what he said - unlike politicians who spend DECADES on a public paycheck and remain ineffectual, as a businessman he knows what it takes to get things done. Good for him !

I guess then that you suppor all of what is in this list. That makes you, effectively, a Democrat.

He supported a Sierra Nevada Conservancy that Gray Davis vetoed, authored by a socialist from Santa Cruz.
He has a appointed member of the Sierra Club hierarchy to the CalEPA.
His hydrogen fuels program is a thinly veiled corporate agricultural scam.
He didn't lift a finger to stop gay marriage and has signed "domestic partners" legislation that violates in spirit, if not in letter, Proposition 22.
He continues to negotiate with Cedillo on drivers' licenses for illegals.
The prison guards rolled him completely for a pittance now in return for more later.
He "negotiated" minute concessions from the universities in return for more money later.
He grabbed revenues from cities and counties with a promise to return it later.
He "negotiated" a minute reduction in workman's comp premiums when all he had to do was copy Arizona's plan and put it on the ballot.
He signed SB 50.
He's raising more campaign money faster than Davis ever did, INCLUDING from the tribes he swore he would never solicit. In return for that he got a pittance compared to his the amount of gambling revenue he was boasting he would get. My bet is that the revenue won't even offset the direct cost of State social programs to deal with the results of gambling. Instead, he is well on his way to implementing organized gambling statewide.
His planned "deregulation" of electrical rates has totally ignored the illegal contracts Davis' people negotiated under a conflict of interest.
He used his popularity to foist a constitutional amendment that makes it possible for the State to balance a budget by borrowing and called it "cutting up the credit cards." From McClintock's analysis of 58 (http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/mcclintock/article_detail.asp?PID=262):
"The second assumption is that Proposition 58 “tears up the credit cards” to assure the state never borrows to balance its budget again. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Proposition 58 made no practical change in current law beyond suspending the oldest provision of the state constitution that for 154 years has prevented exactly the kind of borrowing that Proposition 57 now begins.
"Under the “Balanced Budget Amendment,” a balanced budget is whatever the legislature says it is. Every one of the budgets that got California into financial difficulty was defined by the legislature as “balanced.” California’s budget deficits are the result of uncontrolled spending and dishonest accounting -- and the short-term borrowing to cover them -- and Proposition 58 does nothing to change that."
He opposed Prop 54 (Racial Privacy), calling Ward Connerly et al., "Right wing crazies."
He didn't support the Save Our State initiative.
He abandoned the spending cap.
He dropped pension reform:
He abandoned merit pay for teachers
McPherson (R) magically says nothing cam be done about redistricting until 2006
He’s backing away from controlling illegal (per SCOTUS decision: Communications Worker v. Beck) union confiscation of political funds
He endorsed Proposition 68 supporting open primaries, a proposal similar to Louisiana's famously corrupt election system.
He backed the $3 Billion Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Proposition 71
He tried to co-optTed Costa's effort to give California a just reapportionment system with one of his own and then quietly dumped his highly publicized effort in favor of Costa’s.
He appointed a socialist labor activist to run the State Employment Development Department
He appointed a person who advocates tracking every mile you drive and charging you for it as head of the DMV.
On the plus side he appointed a talented auditor, Donna Arduin, to be Finance Director, but then didn't listen to her.
He killed the Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority.
He appointed Tom Campbell to be Finance Director. We'll see if Arnold listens to him.
He appointed Nancy Drinkard to the Board of Forestry (an outstanding candidate).
He appointed Andrea Hoch to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation.

Other than that, he's doing a great job.

What a great summation of an abject FAILURE as a Governor of Cauleeforneeah!!! You have consolidated the consummate SCORE CARD FOR MODERATE LEFTIST REPELLICANS!!!

"I guess then that you suppor all of what is in this list."

I take it you also wrongly guessed that McClintock had a chance of winning ?

That's part of the problem with fanatics - they HAVE to find a slot to put people in, even if they have to assume or make up things.

Let me ask yuu the same simple question, noone seems to have the courage to answer -

Using 20/20 hindsight, would you prefer that Davis had not been recalled, or Bustamente had been elected over Arnold ?