Not only was it thumped at the polls in a huge defeat, but it really woke up a lot of Californians to the massive agenda of GovernMental EnvironMentalists. They have simply used that measure as a piecemeal pattern of measures that they have added little by little, incrementally over the past decade.
My venom toward Arnold Schwartzenegger is NOT based on sour grapes because I did NOT vote for him! It is based on the fact that I have personally fought fiercely over the past decade even to the loss of my personal fortunes against these many and several EnvironMental groups and their openly confrontational agenda against free enterprise, free markets and property rights... And now the first thing Arnold does is give them a GOVERNMENT AGENCY called the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that covers 1/5th of CA!!!
Here now we see a further manifestation of the balance of their unfulfilled wishlist and Governor Schwartzenegger just about cheerfully handing it to them when it is largely their damned fault that true traditional "infrastructure" has been so totally stalled out in this state!!!
They had the same success to a much lesser degree when pseudo Republican Governor Pete Wilson was in office. Many believe (and some know) they made their case to both Wilson and Schwartzenegger families immediately after both were elected with a gratis whitewater rafting trip down the South Fork of the American River that powers and waters Sacramento but by-passes the county it flows through to the terrible detriment economically of that county.
The time spent lobbying those Governors in eddy pools during those rafting trips have made CA EnvironMental Not-for-Profit groups extremely wealthy and powerful to the benefit of the CA Democrat Party and the direct detriment of the CA Repulican Party. This can be proven if anyone was willing to take the time to research it.
I meant to ping you guys to #62.