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I disagree, Arnold is trying to swim upstream, he may have misjudged how strong the current is, but I believe he appreciates the challenge.

Nonsense. You can't make that argument and justify his record.

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 SAYS he supports the will of the people in Proposition 22, but he signs legislation that subverts marriage in all but name.
First there was AB205.
On September 19, 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 205, thereby enacting the California Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 (“the Act”).
From another source:

Assembly Bill (AB) 205 marks a new twist in the fiery national battle over homosexual unions by bestowing hundreds of spousal duties and privileges on domestic partnerships registered in California. State records show about 5,000 new domestic partnerships were registered in the state in 2004. California's registry now contains the names of roughly 28,000 couples, including gays and heterosexual senior citizens.
Then there's AB 2208):
Governor Schwarzenegger signed another bill requiring insurance companies offering policies in the state to provide homosexual domestic partners with coverage equal to that of married spouses.
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.
He called the flood of illegals a crisis and said America should, “close the borders,” and hasn’t DONE anything about it since!
Now that he’s run up the interest payments on the debt, he threatens a tax increase if voters don’t authorize more borrowing!!!
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.
He appointed Nancy Drinkard to the Board of Forestry (an outstanding candidate) but didn’t back her up.
He appointed Andrea Hoch to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation.
He replaced Tom Campbell with a conservative, Michael C. Genest.
He endorsed Prop 75 paycheck protection, but only after it qualified for the ballot without his support.
He endorsed Prop 73 parental notification on minor abortion, but only after it qualified for the ballot without his support.
And the biggie… He signed a ban on subsidized Viagra for sex offenders!!! Now that’s moral courage.

Looks like it needs updating.

You are in California... WHAT have you done?

I've blown a cool half million bucks and seven years of work taking on our hopelessly corrupt environmental move-mint, of which Arnold is in it up to his cigar.

Top that.

It is the VOTERS in California, NOT Arnold, that have chosen the path to Socialism and Failure!

So California won't vote conservative? Consider the spate of recent ballot propositions:

Prop 227	English only education in public schools	Passed
Prop 209	No more affirmative action in State hiring or education	Passed
Prop 22	Heterosexual marriage only	Passed
Prop 187	No benefits for illegal aliens	Passed

Simon lost to Davis by only 325,000 votes after the most incompetent campaign in history and while being stabbed in the back by his own Party.

Don't give us ‘California is a liberal state’ until you know what you are talking about. The problem is a gerrymandered legislature, government unions, Hollywood, news mediots, and the universities, not the voters.

Let me know how I can help, short of moving from Texas (which has a bad habit of copying California)

Getting your facts straight would be much appreciated. Trading in truism has to stop.

CO
I know another way I can help.

Repost and Bump your post to me (Thanks for the Education)

TT

I disagree, Arnold is trying to swim upstream, he may have misjudged how strong the current is, but I believe he appreciates the challenge.

Nonsense. You can't make that argument and justify his record.

* 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 SAYS he supports the will of the people in Proposition 22, but he signs legislation that subverts marriage in all but name.

First there was AB205.
On September 19, 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 205, thereby enacting the California Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 (“the Act”).

From another source:

Assembly Bill (AB) 205 marks a new twist in the fiery national battle over homosexual unions by bestowing hundreds of spousal duties and privileges on domestic partnerships registered in California. State records show about 5,000 new domestic partnerships were registered in the state in 2004. California's registry now contains the names of roughly 28,000 couples, including gays and heterosexual senior citizens.

Then there's AB 2208):
Governor Schwarzenegger signed another bill requiring insurance companies offering policies in the state to provide homosexual domestic partners with coverage equal to that of married spouses.

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.
* He called the flood of illegals a crisis and said America should, “close the borders,” and hasn’t DONE anything about it since!
* Now that he’s run up the interest payments on the debt, he threatens a tax increase if voters don’t authorize more borrowing!!!

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.
* He appointed Nancy Drinkard to the Board of Forestry (an outstanding candidate) but didn’t back her up.
* He appointed Andrea Hoch to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation.
* He replaced Tom Campbell with a conservative, Michael C. Genest.
* He endorsed Prop 75 paycheck protection, but only after it qualified for the ballot without his support.
* He endorsed Prop 73 parental notification on minor abortion, but only after it qualified for the ballot without his support.
* And the biggie… He signed a ban on subsidized Viagra for sex offenders!!! Now that’s moral courage.

Looks like it needs updating.

You are in California... WHAT have you done?

I've blown a cool half million bucks and seven years of work taking on our hopelessly corrupt environmental move-mint, of which Arnold is in it up to his cigar.

Top that.

It is the VOTERS in California, NOT Arnold, that have chosen the path to Socialism and Failure!

So California won't vote conservative? Consider the spate of recent ballot propositions:

Prop 227 English only education in public schools Passed
Prop 209 No more affirmative action in State hiring or education Passed
Prop 22 Heterosexual marriage only Passed
Prop 187 No benefits for illegal aliens Passed

Simon lost to Davis by only 325,000 votes after the most incompetent campaign in history and while being stabbed in the back by his own Party.

Don't give us ‘California is a liberal state’ until you know what you are talking about. The problem is a gerrymandered legislature, government unions, Hollywood, news mediots, and the universities, not the voters.

Let me know how I can help, short of moving from Texas (which has a bad habit of copying California)

Getting your facts straight would be much appreciated. Trading in truism has to stop.