Posted on 11/30/2005 10:46:30 AM PST by churchillbuff
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- attempting to regain his political footing after a devastating special election defeat this month -- has begun a shakeup of his administration by replacing his chief of staff with a former state Democratic Party official and top adviser to former Gov. Gray Davis, Democratic and Republican sources said Tuesday.
The hiring of Susan Kennedy, widely respected by both Democrats and Republicans in Sacramento as a workhorse operative for Davis, is expected to be announced officially as early as today. The move could kick off major protests from conservative Republicans.
Appointed by Davis to the California Public Utilities Commission in 2003, Kennedy had made her name as a political operative as the head of the California branch of the National Abortion Rights Action League. A longtime gay rights activist, Kennedy married her partner, Vicki Marti, in a 1999 ceremony in Hawaii attended by many California political insiders.
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That claim is bogus. See post #41.
Yep, I think it's a sure sign that Maria Schriver is the Governor and Ahnold is mere figurehead. It makes the Democrats rich and happy and indulgent and it fools everyone who hoped for a Republican in the Governor's office.
I get the feeling here that what the CAGOP was swooning about was Schwarzenegger's FILMIC legacy, his screen appeal, some pretend personna.
I agree that he's made a great series of interesting, powerful personnas successful onscreen, but it seems that like most fans of films everywhere, the CAGOP was no different and just swooned at the "idea" of Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the reality of him.
Otherwise, I think he's proving to be that Trojan Horse he was earlier, this thread, characterised to be. Didn't he earlier on say that Ted Kennedy was the one who he'd learned "the most" from and who was one of his advisors? I think we now see the Ted Kennedy reality of Schwarzenegger, not the onscreen one.
35% of registered voters are Republicans. Props 73 and 75 got 47% of the vote. If the Republicans didn't show up, where were all those votes from?
And, by the way, the measures were not all "for the total benefit of conservatives." That was also indicated in the vote results where substantially fewer voters supported Props 76 and 77 than Props 73-75, another indicator that conservatives did indeed show up at the polls.
What was truly pathetic was that the campaign was totally inept and several of the measures seriously flawed. If one wants to rally the troops, they must have a platform to rally around. That was sorely lacking.
47% of the voters that showed up, not 35% of the registered Republican and .0005% of Libertarian votes.
is she a girly-man....girl?
huh?
The Austrian never made a single attempt to act conservatively.
1) Schwarzenegger never made a budget cut
2) Schwarzenegger increased two consecutive budgets by record amounts when the state couldn't afford the old budget levels.
3) Schwarzenegger never decreased or eliminated a single tax
4) Schwarzenegger's policy forced the largest tax and fee increases in the state's history
5) Schwarzenegger never reduced the size of state government
6) Schwarzenegger increased the size of state government to the largest in its history.
7) Schwarzenegger refused to apply out of state tuition fees to illegal aliens enrolled in state universities
8) Schwarzenegger imposed huge fees increases on California citizens attending state universities to afford fee reductions for illegal aliens attending these same schools.
9) Schwarzenegger encouraged Californian's to bypass safeguards in the state constitution to increase spending.
10) Schwarzenegger borrowed $12B to go grocery shopping and now has California at a 6% debt/equity ratio.
My advice is to pedal the Kool-Aid elsewhere. Possibly on a Republican forum where the skewed mantra might be believed by more gullible souls.
A 25 million acre regional governmental body to suffocate economic growth, over-regulate land use on the low percentage of private property leftover from all the governmental land grabs!
With CA's economy reeling, he signed a law creating this unwanted and unneeded Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that puts an economic chill of uncertainty over every remaining parcel of private property just like the Coastal Commission, or the Tahoe CONservancy, or the Santa Monica Mountains CONservancy and several others I can't recall at this moment!!!
The CA Farm Bureau Federation who endorsed him early in the Recall pleaded with him not to sign this piece of crap, but he just swaggered up to Colfax, CA and signed it in their face with a flourish in a theatrical setting on the Bear River with GANG-GREEN Governmental EnvironMentalist surrounding him for the "Photo-Op!"
What a Prig!!! Gray Davis vetoed the damn thing...TWICE!!! But it means absolutely nothing to you city slickers who think the Sierra-Nevada mountains are worth nothing more that a playground for the masses!!!
We didn't need or want another government agency from someone who was promising to blow up those boxes! The only growth industry we've had up here for decades is government!!!
Hanh in there. Keep a stiff upper lip.
Arnold gave us the opportunity to succeed and we as a people choked. Even though you and I voted, we have to look into the mirror and not to Arnold because at least he offered propositions.
As I said, I bet the Republican party doesn't even intend to put some sort of similar perhaps better propositions again up for 2006. I think our Republican party machine in this state is just that inept.
my point is simply - if you have withdrawn support for him, don't complain when gay activists are appointed and when Tookie is granted clemency. had he gotten more conservative support, he would have political capital and would "owe" some of that back.
well, you fell right into the trap.
if McCain is duly elected the candidate in the primaries, I will vote for him. I don't like him, but I'll vote for him.
your post is exactly what I was predicting - people will stay home and not vote for McCain, and then when Hillary wins, will blame "the party" for it. If you don't vote for McCain - its your fault (in part) if he loses.
Schwarzenegger did not offer a single proposition in the November elections. He abandon all of his proposition after their fatal shortcomings were exposed by his opponents. Schwarzenegger was forced to fish for replacements sponsored in the Assembly by Republicans and then support them, good and bad.
Prop 74 was a mistake and it faired poorly. Prop 75 was good law and almost won despite Schwarzenegger's attempt to sink it. Prop 76 was bad legislation and failed miserably across the political spectrum. Prop 77 was wobbly legislation guided by a good principal. It failed because of it was associated with Schwarzenegger, not on its merits.
If three of those four had passed, had the Republican base bothered to vote, you'd have a Governor able to kick butt instead of now having to get along.
Republicans in this state are their own worst enemy, mostly in their leadership.
You can't make this stuff up.
Wrong. I'm refusing to be caught up in the RINOcrat trap. The difference between McCain and Hillary would be so slight that it would actually be more dangerous to have McCain in there, because he'll have greater success than she would at pushing leftist policies.
And above all, politicians who lose elections have no business blaming the voters for their loss. That's so utterly pathetic.
I am trying to so be on my best behaviour, being as it is the holiday season and all,, but it is getting mighty tough to hold back in light of such events.
My predictions of 150 Billion dollar state budgets and as much again in long-term indebtedness very soon need to be revised upwards.
Wall St. is loving these developments.
Mind boggling!
Schwarzenegger has gotten considerable conservative support and accolades the two times he did anything conservative.
Had Schwarzenegger done anything conservative beyond those two vetoes he wouldn't need strong conservative support. He would have earned support from across the political spectrum who elevated him to public office.
But he didn't. Two months after his election Schwarzenegger resumed Davis' liberal agenda and alienated most of his previous supporters. Bigger government, more spending, more borrowing, requests for even more borrowing authority - rejected, reductions in property rights, large increases in taxes and fees to support growing social programs.
Fortunately Schwarzenegger made a mistake. He continued to pretend he was a Republican. I'm glad he did. If he changes party registration, California will never be rid of this foreign pretender.
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