And all the unions and public employees came out and spent a good part of a billion agaisnt Arnold because he was so liberal, especially in propositions, you saying that was the case?
Let's get back to those pesky little facts. I know that partisans hate to discuss facts but let's.
Public employees, in this case teachers, didn't spend millions. Unions did. All the Unions needed to motivate their membership to vote against Prop 74 and Prop 75 was a bad guy and the gang gave it to them when Schwarzenegger attacked teachers personally, instead of the union leadership.
Had the gang treated teachers as victims, a time proven, political goldmine, Prop 75 probably would have won by a narrow margin, in spite of the millions spent to defeat it. Instead, the gang painted teachers personally as evil doers, which motivated just enough teachers to narrowly defeat Prop 75. A 3% swing in the vote was the difference between victory and defeat.