He raised taxes and signed a bill legalizing abortion.
And Reagan would not have hired Lyn Nofziger when he was running for governor. He would likley have cost him the election.
Scuse me, but wasn't Nofziger Reagan's press secretary when Reagan ran for governor?
In 1966, he ( Nofziger )was named press secretary for
Ronald Reagan’s gubernatorial campaign,
followed by two years as Governor Reagan’s director of
communications. Mr. Nofziger then served the Nixon
White House as deputy assistant to the president for
congressional relations and the Republican National
Committee as its deputy chairman for communications.
The two most important people in every Reagan campaign from govenor to president were Ed Meese and Lyn Nofziger.
"In his campaign for governor, Reagan spoke against higher taxes and urged that state spending be trimmed. Yet during his eight years in office, the state budget increased from $4.6 billion to $10.2 billion. Much of the increase, however, was designed to raise state revenues in order to relieve local governments of the burden of increased costs of welfare and education. The portion of the state budget earmarked for aid to local governments grew from $5 billion to $7.8 billion, and this state aid permitted the lowering of local property taxes. Reagan contended that the tax hikes, all of which came in his first year in office, were necessitated by the "near bankruptcy" in which he found the state after assuming control from Governor Brown."
Reagan left the Governor's office with California firmly in the black.
While Reagan did liberalize California's abortion laws, he said it was the worst decision of his political career. I tend to believe him. Arnold supports abortion on demand.
The real question is, why do you find it necessary to attack Reagan, in order to build up a liberal Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger?