“The governor’s plan represents an apparent about-face”
What else is new? Ahnold has flip-floped on just about everything else.
Arnold has had a tough time as governor. He inherited a bloated oversized budget and a huge financial mess from Davis, and he doesn’t have the financial expertise to deal effectively with this kind of a crisis. He was slow to figure out how bad this budget crisis could get and he didn’t insist on spending cuts soon enough.