[SmithL]

Uh, Arnold? You aren't running for anything. Don't you have a budget that needs your attention?

[Maelstorm]

Damn he is an idiot.

[J Edgar]

Is this RINO-to-RINO combat?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cut every state agency by 5 percent.
Do it again.

[fretzer]

Considering the source, I view that as an endorsement.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Losers all!

[Terry Mross]

Oh, how I remember when conservatives loved this guy. For some reason a lot of people forgot he was married to a Kennedy.

[Mariner]

Whitman will say ANYTHING to get elected, then do as she pleases.

[MissesBush]

God this man is an idiot. Eliminating all these state employees should have happened a long time ago. Once again this fool shows how clueless he is and why he ran up California’s debt to record levels. He never had any real commitment to controlling budgets.

[dfwgator]

Arnold wants to get back in Hollywood’s good graces again so he can resume his acting career.

[A CA Guy]

He's saying that because in CA there was a contract made that if you fire government workers you have to give the remaining ones big raises.
So if you fire 40k (GREAT), you have to give a 5% raise to others which may even cost more.

Best if the state declares bankruptcy, vacates the union contracts and renegotiate those they need down to slightly below private sector wages and benefits instead of 300% more.

[DM1]

NOt that i have any real love for Meg or anything but i really hope she wins this race. Redistricting in CA will have big national repercussions so hopefully she can win against old moonbeam

[Forty-Niner]

The Governor of California, be it Arnold, Meg, of (again) Moonbeam Brown, does not run California. The Governor is more akin to the ant floating downriver on a piece of wood.....and only believes (s)he is steering.

No matter who wins this years election, the winner will quickly learn that the various public employees unions are really the ones in charge.

Arnold’s greatest failure is that he did not fight the California Teachers Union and the Correctional Officers Union, but instead rolled over and played dead at the first radio ad by the CTA opposing his leadership direction. He, in effect from day one, became like the dead fish just going with the flow. Arnold has long been exposed as a girly man.

California, until it breaks the power of these unions will continue to be bankrupt.

[Lancey Howard]

Arnold couldn’t find anywhere to cut, so why should he believe Whitman can? Arnold also knows that California must not cut important “green” programs that will save the world from global climate warming change and provide millions of “green” jobs for Californians. Additionally, embryonic stem cell research MUST continue with a blank check until it yields something useful, which it very possibly might sometime in the future. Arnold is very smart, and he has his priorities in order.