For some time I rarely came on the forum to find much of anything positve regarding Schwarzenegger. That's okay, he hadn't done much of anything to be praised for and plenty to be critcized for. Still, there were plenty of posts taking him to task basicly all the time.
When it came to the proposition recently, I didn't run into endless threads praising him or voicing support for them. Now perhaps they were here and I missed them, but going by the volume of criticizims what were on the forum when Schwarzenegger did things they didn't like, I would have expected to see a lot of posts supporting those propositions if folks were supportive.
Once again, I didn't see it.
Point well taken.
However the statement was: "He received praise when he challenged the status quo of political districting."
That was not a reference to the proposition that eventually emerged (Prop 77) which was convoluted and wobbly but still received broad support from conservatives.
The propositions that the Austrian originally promulgated were fairly conservative but alas, all contained legally challangeable language or could be construed as "third rail" and all were abandoned. The Austrian was left to cherry pick, as best he could, legislation authored by the Wilson gang (Prop 74, 75, 76 and 77). None were of the quality of his originals and all contained the obligatory special interest clauses of their authors; lenders, big business, and anti taxers. The same group that financed his recall campaign and the special election.
For the most part, conservatives supported Prop 74, 75 and 77 but none were enthusiastic. Prop 76 was roundly criticized by both the right and the left, as a collection of special interest protections that benefited the authors instead of the electorate.
D1, you seem to be making the assumption that all of the initiatives deserved support. Props 73 through 75 got my support and I put it in my tagline for over a month. If propositions 76 or 77 had been proposed by McClintock or Bustamante, I still would have opposed them. The devil was in the details--and they were not an improvement over today.