Care to list those bills ?
"he has vetoed many Republican bills and bills benefiting the many small businesses and consumers who donated heavily to him
Care to list those bills ?"
There is one in particular that cooked my Goose. Our small business organization gave his campaign 50k of very hard earned $$ from our shallow pockets. We are small group insurance agents whose incomes average about 35k a year (per Monster.com). In return, we were able to explain in detail to his staff the benefits of low cost of Health Savings Accounts, and how they were saving California families at least $200 to $300 per month, while dramatically lowering healthcare costs and improving acess to services. In addition, studies showed that they mostly benefit the sick and older folks, who generally save more in premiums on them. His staff, mostly Republicans, fully understood this and promised their full support for our tiny effort at reform to help our customers.
It was a Republican sponsored bill with broad bipartisan support and it didn't cost much, while it helped thousands of people to help themselves in lowering healthcare premium costs.
He vetoed the bill allowing contributions to be state tax free. CA is one of the very few states that continues to apply state tax these IRA style contributions. You have to add them back into your income after taking the fed. tax deduction.
My understanding is that this is hardly an isolated example. We learned our lesson, as I'm sure many others have. DON'T waste your money on this Gov. and his schemes, since he simply does not care unless the crowds say he should.
This Gov. is off the reservation, thinking that people are just stupid enough to give him their hard won dollars for nothing. He appears to have contept for groups of people who care to lobby for simple, balanced, conservative principles that actually improve peoples lives.