I'm sorry -- but that is just false. Why people continue to post this propaganda without looking at the facts is beyond me.
Arnold's first act was to kill a spending cap bill. He then went on to borrow $15 billion dollars ($7 billion more than Gray Davis wanted). He publicly opposed a number of high profile Republican initiatives, dissing the Republicans in the process. He then pushed a 25 MILLION acre land grab via the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, something even Gray Davis vetoed. His environmental platform, made public during the Recall election, laid out the crazed Global Warming and energy regulation he is foisting on the State -- and the country. HERE is a list of some of the things he had done a full year before the 2006 special election.
Arnold's propaganda machine, with the help of liberals in the MSM, have tried to say that Arnold only moved "leftward" after his propositions didn't pass in 2006 (propositions that did not attempt to address any of the real problems in the state). And you continue to repeat the mantra. Please... do some homework.
I will restate my assertion. His first term was less disasterous than his second term. He did have some reasonable policies in his first term. On the environment, he has been a disaster from the beginning.