Why couldn't RINOLD just campaign for the initiatives during the recall election?
Why didn't Arnold just wave a magic wand and make California's deficit just disappear?
Is that going to be your next question?
Because that would save money, and Mr. "Fiscal Conservative" decided it would be wiser to spend billions of dollars more and drag people out to the polls AGAIN for ANOTHER "special election". Great move, Arnie.
Incidentally, FairOpinion constantly blames rank-and-file GOP voters for Arnie's initiatives going down in flames, though on other threads she loudly points out that registered Democrats strongly outnumber registered Republicans in California. Since this is the case, trying to pass referendums during a "special election" is the WORST possible move, since turnout will be much smaller and only most hardcore members of both parties will turn out -- leading to an inevitable GOP defeat in CA. Since Arnie and FO consider themselves such experts on how to be "electable" in CA, they should have noticed such a "special election" was doomed to fail. Referendums can only win a majority with the support of independents, and they really don't feel like being dragged out to the polls every couple of weeks just to vote on one or two partisan issues. Oh well.
Given the results of all the "special elections" in CA lately, maybe the "leaders" should try to get things passed during the REGULAR election for a change.
Nah, that would make too much sense. I bet they have another "special election" in 2007.