JustRalph
01-18-2008, 01:33 AM
http://www.avpress.com/n/17/0117_s18.hts
Arnold turns back on people for Prop. 93
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Wednesday, January 16, 2008.
Arnold Schwarzenegger rode into office on a twin wave of celebrity and populism. Californians were furious with then-Gov. Gray Davis for ignoring them and spending the state into a huge deficit, and they were intrigued by the prospect of the famous actor becoming chief executive.
Today, Schwarzenegger is still famous, but he's no man of the people. Just like Davis, he's spent taxpayer money like water, and just like Davis, he is in bed, figuratively speaking, with the most liberal wing of the liberal state Legislature.
If a candidate runs as a liberal Democrat and wins, then that's what the voters wanted. But Schwarzenegger sold himself as a fiscal conservative, and he has proved anything but.
He first aligned himself with Republicans and originally took up Republican causes, but gave up the instant Democrats and the unions raised a fuss.
Without principals and without a backbone, he stood up and fought for nothing. He caved, agreeing with the Democrats on spending and on trademark Democratic issues such as global warming. The only thing Republican about this governor is the 'R' after his name.
Now, the coup de grace, the final blow, comes with his announcement this week that he favors Proposition 93.
Proposition 93 is Fabian Nunez's baby. The Democratic Speaker of the Assembly - excoriated for his lavish lifestyle and travel at the behest of fat-cat campaign contributors - wants to run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2010.
He wants to remain in office two more years to give him a better platform to run for mayor, but he can't do that under current law because he is "term-limited," in his third and final term.
So Nunez and his pals came up with a away to get around the term-limit law.
~more at the link~
Arnold turns back on people for Prop. 93
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Wednesday, January 16, 2008.
Arnold Schwarzenegger rode into office on a twin wave of celebrity and populism. Californians were furious with then-Gov. Gray Davis for ignoring them and spending the state into a huge deficit, and they were intrigued by the prospect of the famous actor becoming chief executive.
Today, Schwarzenegger is still famous, but he's no man of the people. Just like Davis, he's spent taxpayer money like water, and just like Davis, he is in bed, figuratively speaking, with the most liberal wing of the liberal state Legislature.
If a candidate runs as a liberal Democrat and wins, then that's what the voters wanted. But Schwarzenegger sold himself as a fiscal conservative, and he has proved anything but.
He first aligned himself with Republicans and originally took up Republican causes, but gave up the instant Democrats and the unions raised a fuss.
Without principals and without a backbone, he stood up and fought for nothing. He caved, agreeing with the Democrats on spending and on trademark Democratic issues such as global warming. The only thing Republican about this governor is the 'R' after his name.
Now, the coup de grace, the final blow, comes with his announcement this week that he favors Proposition 93.
Proposition 93 is Fabian Nunez's baby. The Democratic Speaker of the Assembly - excoriated for his lavish lifestyle and travel at the behest of fat-cat campaign contributors - wants to run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2010.
He wants to remain in office two more years to give him a better platform to run for mayor, but he can't do that under current law because he is "term-limited," in his third and final term.
So Nunez and his pals came up with a away to get around the term-limit law.
~more at the link~