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Arnold put the measures up on the ballot and then proceeded to ignore them.
I know he was raising a LOT of money, but I didn't see it getting spent.
The failure of those initiatives reflects the lack of leadership by Arnold and nothing else.
His willingness to veer left in search of a crowd to walk in front of demonstrates that even further.
Sorry, I've lost whatever confidence I'd had in the man. I was shaken when the putz banned .50 caliber rifles and now that he has a lesbian-feminist Gray Davis staffer running his office I'm done with him.
There was a sound bite of Arnold saying he "should have listened to his wife more" during the special elections.
So it appears as if Maria made this appointment for him.
We won't be voting for him again.
The voters who recalled Gray Davis and elected Arnold governor make up a loose group that I call the Normality Base: Republicans, thinking independents, and conservative Democrats. They are busy soccer moms, harried commuters, and stressed out small business owners. They tend to agree with Republicans much of the time. The Normality Base never felt the sense of urgency about the Special Election they did about the recall. They simply didn’t vote.
The unmotivated Normality Base are still here and still don’t care much for big government and high taxes. They will vote in greater numbers in the next scheduled election. This base is poised to re-elect the governor if he sends the right message. Conversely, the Susan Kennedy appointment indicates likely electoral disaster for Schwarzenegger if it is the beginning of a hard left shift toward supporting higher taxes and bigger government
Not likely. The Republican Party in CA doesn't have the muscle to outdo the Democrats when they engage in all-or-nothing warfare, but Schwarzenegger is not going to abandon fiscal reform. Interesting analysis.
Elephants have long memories. Arnold is going to crash and burn in the next election. Then again one wonders if California has any Republicans anymore.
Reality BumP
Sorry, I don't buy it that the CTA is bruised and weakened. They've been boasting and arrogantly struting their political agenda even more stridently than ever before.
Their last magazine issue focused on promoting single payor health care. What's the connection to educating children, you ask?? There is none, but they are beyond caring in their joy of victory.
If anything, this may signal that a significant minority are sick of initiatives and want the legislature to work it out.
Too bad the legislature is out of touch with any actual voters.
Thanks for posting.