[BillyBoy]

After he lost his referendums When he ran for Governor in 2005 2003 he gave up had no intent on fiscal conservatism. He just promised voters lots of goodies without saying how he would pay for it, hired liberal loudmouths like Warren Buffet, and repeated phrases the "no taxes" and "Milton Friedman" like a broken record.

I don’t know if Deborah freedomrings69 is correct, that because it was the fault of Conservatives Arnold who sat on their hands. wasted $70 million on a "special election" when he could have simply waited a few months later and put them on a regular election ballot for free. The unions registered Dems did a blitzkrieg outnumbered Republicans in California and were successful thanks to independents and swing voters ALWAYS having low turnout in special elections. Maybe that was the year we learned how little the public was willing to Arnold was competent at passing free market reforms, considering how he rushed out a bunch of poorly written, half-assed proposals to the public, only a handful of which were worth implementing anyway.

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Fixed freedomrings69's statement on the matter.

[freedomrings69]

Actually I thought the proposals were pretty good. Changing the retirement plan to end guaranteed payouts made lots of sense.

[SierraWasp]

Hay! How ‘bout dat??? Purdy good, BillyBoy. I think you nailed it!!!