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The only positive thing that could happen from an Arnold governorship is the prospect of an improving business environment. The problem is that he supports and promotes the very things that have turned it into an unfriendly state for businesses.

Not to mention that he is going to have to deal with the California legislature. They will not be interested in the least in helping him in any respect with regardes to those issues. Especially if he does try to scale back the workmans comp program. No way they will go for that. And I suspect that the California population will not get behind Arnold to an extent that the legislature will be forced to act. Gridlock will be massive.

Though Gridlock is a good thing.

Especially if he does try to scale back the workmans comp program. No way they will go for that. And I suspect that the California population will not get behind Arnold to an extent that the legislature will be forced to act.

See, one reason I slightly prefer Arnold over McClintock is that Arnold has the charisma and media savvy to really USE that bully pulpit, as no governor in decades has done. (Say what you will otherwise about Davis, Wilson, Deukmejian ... they were NOT good retail politicians.) He would develop a campaign to pressure the wackos in the Legislature to adopt sensible reforms; he knows how to get a simple message out loud and clear. People will pick up the phone (to call and pester their legislators) for Arnold. And if the Legislature still won't heel, he has the savvy to put resolutions on the ballot to override them.

I am hopeful that Arnold or whoever is elected (-- notice I am starting to catch myself ASSUMING Davis will be dumped?) will seek to put the following constitutional amendments on the ballot ASAP:
-- Colorado-style cap on spending growth (limited to growth in population and the rate of inflation, so "real, per capita" spending is frozen);
-- anti-gerrymandering (and one-time re-districting) measure. This was tried in 1990 and shot down by, guess who? the Left, including the Sierra Club (an act which occasioned my departure from that increasingly wack-job group);
-- change to a two-years-at-a-time budget, to be passed by the summer in even-numbered (election) years;
-- slightly increase number of terms permitted in the term-limits law.